Launching today

Desktop Terrarium

Launching today

Watch your coding sessions grow into a living garden

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Watch your coding sessions grow into a living garden

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Desktop Terrarium is a native macOS companion that turns real coding activity into a living, animated garden. It automatically detects work in Xcode, Cursor, Codex, Claude and other IDEs—no timers or manual project setup. Project and year progress remain visible in a slim desktop bar, while each focused session grows a richer terrarium. Built with GPT‑6 Astra as an ambitious design and engineering collaborator. One-time $19 license.

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What became possible in your product with Astra that was not practical before?

Maker

Desktop Terrarium needed a coherent system spanning macOS process and window detection, privacy-safe project identification, persistent activity models, realistic SwiftUI animation, a desktop progress overlay, license activation, Dodo checkout, and the launch site. With GPT-6 Astra, I could treat these as one connected product instead of isolated prototypes. It reasoned across UX and native implementation, used real previews to critique and refine the animation, and kept the automatic, no-manual-entry promise intact as edge cases changed. That made it practical for a solo maker to move from an idea to a polished, shippable Mac product and launch system in days.

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Maker

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I wanted progress to feel alive. Most productivity tools turn creative work into charts, streaks, and pressure. Desktop Terrarium takes a gentler approach: it notices the project already open in your IDE and lets focused work grow into a living world. GPT‑6 Astra helped shape the experience across product strategy, SwiftUI engineering, animation, licensing, launch design, and the website. The result is a calm native Mac companion that celebrates consistency without asking users to manage another timer or task list. I’d love to hear what you would want your own terrarium to grow into.

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