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Buddy Tamagotchi
A virtual buddy for your AI — hatch, level up together
Buddy is a virtual pet like Tamagotchi. It lives inside your AI tools and is designed to provide in-context code review feedback with personality. You can grow with your buddy with XP-leveling. 21 species with unique stats, rarity tiers, and personality bios. Works with Claude Code, Cursor, OpenClaw, and any MCP client. Rescued from Anthropic's discontinued /buddy feature — now open source, persistent via SQLite, and yours forever. 5-minute install https://github.com/fiorastudio/buddy
I'm Steven Jieli Wu, and I built Buddy because Anthropic quietly removed /buddy from Claude Code on April 9th — and thousands of developers lost their coding companions overnight. I watched the community grieve. People refused to close their terminals because they didn't want to lose their buddies. https://github.com/anthropics/cl...
So I built an open-source MCP server to bring them back — no dependencies, no risk of disappearing again.
What Buddy is: * A virtual pet that lives inside your AI agentic tooling * 21 species with real personality stats (snark, wisdom, chaos...) * It watches you code, reacts to your work, provides code feedback, and levels up over time * Persistent memory — your buddy remembers you across sessions * Works in Claude Code, Cursor, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, WhatsApp, Slack, and any MCP client
What surprised me most: 1/ it caught a few bugs as the coding agent spit out code and functioned as a mini feedback loop
2/ people started using Buddy outside of terminals. WhatsApp groups, Slack channels — the MCP protocol makes it universal. Your buddy can follow you anywhere.
3,000+ clones and 1,000+ buddies hatched in the first week. This thing has a life of its own.
It's completely free, open source, and installs in under 5 minutes. Would love to hear what you hatch — or if you're rescuing an old friend 🥚
“A virtual buddy for your AI — hatch, level up together”
Buddy Tamagotchi was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 3 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #89 on the daily leaderboard. Buddy is a virtual pet like Tamagotchi. It lives inside your AI tools and is designed to provide in-context code review feedback with personality. You can grow with your buddy with XP-leveling. 21 species with unique stats, rarity tiers, and personality bios. Works with Claude Code, Cursor, OpenClaw, and any MCP client. Rescued from Anthropic's discontinued /buddy feature — now open source, persistent via SQLite, and yours forever. 5-minute install https://github.com/fiorastudio/buddy
On the analytics side, Buddy Tamagotchi competes within Open Source, Developer Tools, Artificial Intelligence and GitHub — topics that collectively have 1.1M followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Buddy Tamagotchi performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Buddy Tamagotchi?
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Steven wu
Hey Product Hunt! 👋
I'm Steven Jieli Wu, and I built Buddy because Anthropic quietly removed /buddy from Claude Code on April 9th — and thousands of developers lost their coding companions overnight. I watched the community grieve. People refused to close their terminals because they didn't want to lose their buddies. https://github.com/anthropics/cl...
So I built an open-source MCP server to bring them back — no dependencies, no risk of disappearing again.
What Buddy is:
* A virtual pet that lives inside your AI agentic tooling
* 21 species with real personality stats (snark, wisdom, chaos...)
* It watches you code, reacts to your work, provides code feedback, and levels up over time
* Persistent memory — your buddy remembers you across sessions
* Works in Claude Code, Cursor, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, WhatsApp, Slack, and any MCP client
What surprised me most:
1/ it caught a few bugs as the coding agent spit out code and functioned as a mini feedback loop
2/ people started using Buddy outside of terminals. WhatsApp groups, Slack channels — the MCP protocol makes it universal. Your buddy can follow you anywhere.
3,000+ clones and 1,000+ buddies hatched in the first week. This thing has a life of its own.
It's completely free, open source, and installs in under 5 minutes. Would love to hear what you hatch — or if you're rescuing an old friend 🥚
GitHub: https://github.com/fiorastudio/b...