Vibegotchi
A physical desk pet that levels up on your AI coding, and never sees your code.
The problem
You pour whole nights into your AI coding, and it leaves nothing on your desk to show for it.
The work is real: thousands of turns, billions of tokens, whole builds shipped between dinner and dawn. But it all happens behind a screen and disappears the moment you close the laptop. Vibegotchi makes that effort a small physical companion, Clawd the crab, that grows on exactly the work you were already doing and sits on your desk while you do it.
What it does
tokens in, a live pet outA tiny agent that reads your usage, not your code.
A small program on your machine watches your AI coding tools and reports only coarse signals: token counts, model names, and a hashed session id. Never your code, file paths, repos, or prompts.
Your machine feeds the cloud, the cloud feeds the pet.
The agent ships a UsageEvent over /agent/ws. A FastAPI broker sums it per provider and pushes a UsageFrame to the physical pet over /device/ws, in under a second, no reflash.
It levels up, gets hungry, and earns its keep.
XP is your lifetime tokens, so Clawd sits at Level 39 on roughly 8.2 billion. Feed it by coding, dress it in server-pushed hats, earn badges, and show up on a weekly friends leaderboard. Sleep and weekends never starve it.
The cloud literally cannot see your code.
The privacy rule lives in the schema. Ingest parses each event into a strict field allowlist and rejects any unknown key, at the boundary and again at the server. Privacy is enforced, not promised.
What the cloud sees, and what it doesn't
How it's built
Four runtimes, one contract, and a privacy rule the schema enforces.
Firmware, a host agent, a cloud broker, and a web app all speak one versioned JSON contract, vibegotchi_wire. The hard parts are the ones you can't see: signed A/B firmware updates that health-check themselves and roll back if a new image misbehaves, and a privacy floor that lives in the schema so the cloud can't receive your code even by accident. That plumbing is fail-closed and reversible, and it was proven on real hardware, not just in tests.
This is what six weeks looks like
We built Vibegotchi for ourselves. We can build yours.
Firmware, a cloud, an agent, and a web app, designed and shipped by the same two-person team that would build your MVP. If you have an idea worth building, hardware included, that's the whole pitch.
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