Launching today
Tamamon
A desktop pet that grows as you code with Claude Code
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A desktop pet that grows as you code with Claude Code
238 followers
Tamamon is a macOS desktop pet that lives on top of your screen and grows the more you build with Claude Code. What it does: - 20 species to collect through a weekly gacha, each with its own evolved forms and quirks - Feed it, play (ball, bubbles), and decorate its habitat - Reacts to real time and weather — when it rains or night falls, your pet heads home to rest - Nothing leaves your Mac. No account, no sign-in, no tracking, nothing uploaded.
Tamamon
@besslframework been running a handful of parallel claude code sessions across different repos most days. curious if tamamon pools that into one global growth counter or can tell projects apart. kind of hoping the answer is one pet for everything, not five pets side-eyeing me from different corners of the screen.
Foyer
The Claude Code hook is clever because it ties the pet's state to something that actually varies across sessions, not just a timer or a step counter. Curious what signals Tamamon is actually reading. Is it token usage, task completions, session length, or something more granular like whether the agent succeeded or had to retry? The difference matters because a pet that grows when you grind through a painful debugging session feels earned, but one that just tracks raw activity is basically a Tamagotchi skinned over a pomodoro timer.
Tamamon
@fberrez1 Great question, and you've hit the exact tension I kept thinking about. Right now the growth follows your coding activity over time — the weekly volume moves it from egg to baby to adult to evolved. A separate care layer decides the final form: look after it and it grows into a radiant version, neglect or overfeed it and it darkens. What it doesn't do yet is tell a hard-won debugging grind apart from raw activity. Honestly, growth you earn by pushing through a painful session is a direction I'd love to explore. It all reads locally, nothing uploaded.
@fberrez1 @besslframework the earned-vs-raw-activity question is the interesting one. i hook into claude code's own events for other automation (pre-push gates, stale-state checks) and the signal that's lready sitting there for a "hard session" is compaction count — a session that trips context compaction a few times reads as a longer grind than one that finishes in one pass, independent of raw token volume. probably cheaper to read than scoring task success/retry directly.
The "grows from local Claude Code token activity, nothing leaves the Mac" framing is what keeps this charming instead of turning into a productivity guilt-meter. Since there's no account or sync, what happens to a collection I've spent weeks on if I switch Macs or reinstall — is there a local backup/export, or does the gacha roster start over? I'd happily leave it running all day if the evolved species carry across machines.
Tamamon
@leo404 Really appreciate this — "productivity guilt-meter" is exactly the trap I was trying to avoid. Quick update: you asked, and it just shipped. As of v0.4.8 there's one-click Export / Import in the tray menu — save your whole collection to a file and load it on another Mac. Fully local, no account, and your current collection is backed up automatically before any import, so nothing is ever lost.
On the same Mac it was already safe (the save lives in ~/.config, separate from the app). Leave it running — I'd love that.
Turnaround from question to shipped export is genuinely wild. Does the export carry the evolution progress and streak history too, or just the current species roster? Wondering if a restored collection picks up where it left off or resets the growth clock.
Tamamon
@leo404 Great question. It carries the full state, not just the roster — every creature keeps its stage, its evolved form, and the care history (the karma that decides how it grows). So a restored collection picks up exactly where it left off; nothing resets. It even preserves your weekly-draw timing, so re-importing can't reset the gacha clock. Your evolved companions travel intact.
Love that this grows from my actual Claude Code activity instead of being one more dashboard to check. The fully local, no sign in part is a nice bonus. Does it react in the moment during a long build, or is it more of a daily and weekly thing? congrats on shipping
Tamamon
@i_sanjay_gautam Thanks Sanjay! A bit of both. In the moment, a little heads-up panel shows today’s and this week’s coding activity plus live CPU/memory, and your pet perks up and waves when a Claude Code session is waiting on your input — so during a long build you can glance over and see it’s along for the ride. Over time it hatches, grows, and evolves from your accumulated activity, with a new species to collect each week. All from local activity, nothing leaving the Mac.
Congrats on the launch! 🚀
This is such a fun idea. I like that Tamamon makes coding feel a little more playful without turning into another productivity dashboard or streak-pressure tool.
The local-only approach is also a big plus. Curious if you plan to support backup/export later so people can keep their pets and evolved species when switching Macs.
Tamamon
@prashant_patil14 Thank you. And good timing — it just shipped: v0.4.8 adds one-click Export / Import of your whole collection, so your pets and evolved species come with you when you switch Macs. Fully local, no account, with an automatic backup before every import.
how does the growth actually tie into claude code usage—does it watch what i build or do i have to log sessions somewhere?
Tamamon
@nuriyehosan No logging or setup on your side — it just reads your local Claude Code activity as you work. Nothing to configure, nothing uploaded. The more you code, the more it grows through its stages. You just code; it does the rest, all on your Mac.
Tamamon
@thys_beesman Thanks. Your coding activity over the week sets its stage — it hatches from an egg, grows into a baby, then an adult, then evolves. How it evolves depends on how you care for it along the way: look after it and it grows into a radiant form; neglect or overfeed it and it takes a darker turn.