kathliu

Thank you so much! Same here :) Would be great to bring back some of the wackiness/uniqueness of the early internet!

Hi everyone!

I'm Katherine, one of the makers of Minymon. Minymons are helpful pets you can add to your website! We've been working on Minymon as a passion project for the last few months, and would love to see folks here try it out on their own websites :)

Minymons can: - Answer common questions for you - Gather feedback from your website visitors - Play a theme song - Entertain your visitors (people can feed or talk to your minymon)

Why did we make Minymon? Your website is like your home on the internet—and just like you can have a pet in your home, we thought it would be fun if you could have a pet on your website! First, we brainstormed the funny features like being able to feed a virtual website pet who could keep you company as you browsed. The more "useful" features like answering questions came afterward. At its heart, Minymon is something we've built just for the sake of making the Internet more fun

To celebrate launching Minymon, we're also sending a limited edition enamel pin to the first 25 people who purchase a minymon for their own site!

Let us know if you add a minymon to your site—we'd love to see it!

- Kat & Matt

"When you call something an edge case, you’re really just defining the limits of what you care about." Really interesting piece on increasing empathy during the design process to think about how someone might experience your product in the worst case scenario.

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