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Payday Kitty
A tiny Mac cat that turns work into payday progress
Payday Kitty is a tiny macOS desktop pet that makes your workday feel more alive. Set your work hours and theoretical daily pay, then watch your earnings grow in real time with a floating cat, progress bar, and coin animation. Hide salary numbers with privacy mode, pause when needed, or send the cat to the menu bar and bring it back with Cmd+Shift+P. Local-first: no account, no analytics, no salary data uploaded.
Hey Product Hunt! I built Payday Kitty because I wanted the workday to feel a little less abstract.
Most productivity tools ask you to track more things, manage more dashboards, or optimize yourself harder. I wanted something smaller and warmer: a tiny Mac cat that quietly shows your payday progress as the day goes by.
You set your work hours and theoretical daily pay, and Payday Kitty turns time into visible progress: earnings, a progress bar, and a little coin animation. You can adjust size and opacity, pause it, hide salary numbers with privacy mode, or send the cat to the menu bar and bring it back with a shortcut.
A few things I cared about:
- It should feel like a desktop companion, not another dashboard.
- It should be useful at a glance.
- It should stay local-first: no account, no analytics, no salary data uploaded.
- It should support both English and Chinese system locales naturally.
Watch the launch video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6DtbPJ7Y0I
Try the interactive demo:
https://dist-colvin-ys-projects....
It's a small app, but the idea behind it matters to me: software can make ordinary life feel a little more fun.
I'd love feedback from Mac users:
- Does the desktop pet feel lightweight enough?
- Would this make your workday feel more playful?
- What tiny interactions would make the cat more delightful?
Thanks for checking it out!
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About Payday Kitty on Product Hunt
“A tiny Mac cat that turns work into payday progress”
Payday Kitty was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #90 on the daily leaderboard. Payday Kitty is a tiny macOS desktop pet that makes your workday feel more alive. Set your work hours and theoretical daily pay, then watch your earnings grow in real time with a floating cat, progress bar, and coin animation. Hide salary numbers with privacy mode, pause when needed, or send the cat to the menu bar and bring it back with Cmd+Shift+P. Local-first: no account, no analytics, no salary data uploaded.
Payday Kitty was featured in Mac (103.5k followers), Productivity (652.1k followers) and Pets (4.7k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 144k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Payday Kitty?
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