PawBot - An AI Desktop Puppy That Eats Your Files 🐾
This is a submission for Weekend Challenge: Dog Days Edition What I Built Remember Neko the cat and those Tamagotchi desktop pets from the 90s? I rebuilt that magic for 2026 — except your pet is a golden retriever puppy powered by an LLM. PawBot is a Chrome extension + browser demo where a cute pixel puppy : 🐕 Roams your screen like a classic desktop pet 🏃 Chases your cursor when you get close…
PawBot is an AI-powered desktop puppy that lives in your web browser. Inspired by classic Tamagotchi and Neko pets from the 90s, this Chrome extension brings a golden retriever puppy to life on your screen. Powered by Google Gemini, the puppy can chat with you using mood-aware responses and reacts to files and emojis you drop on its canvas.
Developed for the DEV Weekend Challenge: Dog Days Edition, PawBot showcases a range of cute pixel animations for the pet, including idle, walk, run, eat, sleep, bark, and wave. The extension also features hotkeys for throwing treats and waving, as well as a hunger and happiness HUD in the bottom-left corner of the screen.
To get PawBot running locally, clone the GitHub repository, navigate to the web folder, and run a simple HTTP server. You can also load the Chrome extension by syncing it from the repository. The code is available on GitHub for those interested in exploring the implementation.
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