I spend way too much of my day waiting on AI agents. You send a prompt, stare at a spinner, check Twitter, forget about it, come back 10 minutes later... and realize it finished ages ago. So I built Pawse 🐾 A little anime pet that lives on your desktop and reacts to what you're doing. What it does 🐱 Pet it It watches your cursor, and you can literally pet it by wiggling your mouse over it. It purrs and sends little hearts. ⌨️ Reacts to your typing The hamster runs on a wheel based on your actual WPM. Get past 80 WPM and the wheel catches fire. 🔥 🤖 Keeps you company while your AI works Pawse cheers while your AI agent is working and celebrates when it finishes. Works with Claude Code and Codex with zero setup, and Cursor with one toggle in settings. Interrupted tasks don't get a party. 😤 🧘 Helps you take breaks Stretch reminders + a built-in Pomodoro timer. 🐾 8 pets to choose from Cat, dog, panda, hamster, shiba, kitsune, bunny, and red panda. The boring but important stuff Free. No account, no ads, no subscription. Fully local. It only counts keystrokes for animations. It never records which keys you press and has no telemetry. macOS (Apple Silicon) + Windows 64-bit Not code-signed yet because... well, that costs money I don't have yet 😅 On macOS, you'll need to right-click → Open the first time. Windows SmartScreen may ask you to click Run anyway. 🎬 36-second trailer + download: https://pawse.live There's also a free browser arcade with 11 cat games on the site for when your agent is still thinking. Including a very dumb GTA parody called Grand Theft Catnip. 🐱🔫 Pawse is built with Electron + PixiJS, and the pets are hand-rigged rather than sprite sheets. I'd love feedback, especially: Which pet would you pick? What else should Pawse react to? Does anything break on your machine? Would love to hear what you think. 🐾   submitted by   /u/Boldrenegade [link]   [comments]