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I built a tiny pet that lives in my Mac menu bar and lives off my battery

Hi everyone, I just launched Pettery yesterday, and I wanted to share it here because it started as a small itch of my own. Problem: I built Pettery because I kept ignoring the battery percentage in my menu bar until my Mac died in the middle of work. It's a small pet that lives in the menu bar and reacts to the battery. Mochi gets hungry at 20%, panics at 10%, starving at 5%, and sleeps when the Mac is plugged in. Charging the Mac is how you feed him. That's the whole l

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痛点：Mac 菜单栏里的电池百分比很容易被忽略，导致工作到一半突然没电；把电量状态变成有情绪的桌面宠物可以提升提醒的黏性。

目标用户：Mac 重度使用者、桌面美化爱好者、喜欢养成类和趣味小组件的轻度付费用户

证据："I kept ignoring the battery percentage in my menu bar until my Mac died in the middle of work." / "The base app is free, no subscription. ... Single pets $1.49. Packs $2.99, Ultimate (all pets) $9.74." / "Similar apps people here probably know: RunCat (pet driven by CPU, with paid packs) and Battery Buddy"

变现：免费基础 App + 一次性买断宠物包（单人宠物 $1.49、主题包 $2.99、全解锁 $9.74），用 LemonSqueezy 或 Gumroad 发 license key，后续出节日限定包和续费型新宠物季票

MVP：用 Swift + SwiftUI 做菜单栏 App，通过 IOKit/IOPS 读取电池电量，实现一个 3 状态的宠物动画状态机（饿、慌、睡），内置 3 只免费宠物，加一个本地校验的一次性 license 解锁界面，2 周内可上线

竞品：RunCat、Battery Buddy

摘要：作者在 r/SideProject 发布 Pettery：一只住在 Mac 菜单栏、靠电池电量驱动情绪的宠物，充电即喂食。免费基础版含 3 只宠物，商店 68 只宠物用一次性 license 解锁，定价 $1.49/$2.99/$9.74。作者对标 RunCat（CPU 驱动、有付费包）和 Battery Buddy，但帖子未给出任何实际收入或付费用户数据，需求验证仍偏弱。