🐈 You step away for ten seconds, come back, and "dffffgggghhhjkl;;;" is now live in #general.
So I built something to stop it. Idea to live on GitHub in a day with Claude (Opus 4.8).
It’s a tiny app to catch cat-typing and suppress it, while letting humans type normally. It reads the patterns a cat makes (paws hit several keys at once, roll across neighbors, no spaces, no structure) and clamps the input before it goes anywhere. The moment you start typing like a person again, it lets go.
There's also a live demo where you can try to type like a cat and watch it fight back. Bring your own cat. Or just mash the keys 😁
https://miladsafarzadeh1.github....
free, open source, 100% on-device, solves a problem that has caused at least three incidents on my machine in the last month. this is the correct scope for a menu bar app
LOL I was one of the early user @ Toggl, now I'll support pawpause as well :D
It's a very sad day for the freedom of expression enjoyed by cats everywhere--but a great day for us cat owners! What a great tool! I just wish I owned a Mac.
The live demo fighting back against my own chaotic key mashing is genuinely hilarious. Every remote worker with a cat has lived this exact nightmare, and watching an app distinguish between "paw roll" and "human typo" in real time is just perfect. :p
Thank you for building something that protects both our Slack channels and our cats' reputations. This is the kind of joyful, useful tool that makes the internet better. 🐾
the live demo where you try to type like a cat and watch it fight back is a great touch. also built the whole thing in a day with claude which is kind of the best ad for ai coding I've seen
Open source mac utility for the exact problem i never realized had a name. Bookmarking for the day i get a cat 😄
Finally, a cybersecurity product for the most dangerous insider threat: cats 😄 Congrats on the launch!
As a person with a missing key on my laptop from a cat attack - this is a great idea! Will there be a Windows version available at some point?
About PawPause on Product Hunt
“Lock your keyboard and prevent cats from causing chaos”
PawPause launched on Product Hunt on June 2nd, 2026 and earned 133 upvotes and 16 comments, placing #7 on the daily leaderboard. A tiny macOS menu bar app that detects when your cat is on the keyboard and pauses input system-wide. 100% on-device. Open source. Free.
PawPause was featured in Open Source (68.5k followers), Pets (4.7k followers), GitHub (41.2k followers) and Menu Bar Apps (12.2k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 38.3k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted PawPause?
PawPause was hunted by Milad Safarzadeh. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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