Browser Buddy

Starting page to choose your animal
Welcome back page whenever you open it
Taking care of your pet (cursor quarantine)
Bottom of page with access to tarot readings and shop
An example wonderful tarot card
The shop to buy all goods!

Inspiration

We wanted to build something fun and lightweight to help our productivity. It was inspired by pomodoro techniques and our love of animals. Also wanted something to track our daily goals and earn rewards for completion. Animals include Dogs, Cats, Quokkas, Capybara, Lemurs, Crabs, Owls, and Bears

What it does

Creates your virtual pet and requires care for the pet by taking breaks, supporting Pomodoro timer in order to lock in and a traditional timer to encourage stretching. Includes a cursor park in the break so that you aren't scrolling around on the laptop because you should be stretching, getting water, walking etc. Tarot card reading options so that you can stay mindful and get quotes of inspiration. Emotional readings of your pet to help your day. Earn xp, morale and tokens for each break and goal completion. Able to spend tokens in shop to move up to the next prestige and advance

How we built it

We built this chrome/edge/etc. extension using react, typescript, css and gemini api. We split the work creating pages and features that are most important first, including choosing animals, creating a timer and earning xp.

Challenges we ran into

Merging all of our git conflicts -- overthinking of ideas and figuring out the MVP and basic features -- implementing the automatic timer in the background

Accomplishments that we're proud of

The design/looks of our project -- entire logic of the works -- the shop -- AI integration

What we learned

Don't edit on master branch -- push and commit often -- create distinctive plans before hand

What's next for Browser Buddy

We want to support communities (schools, communities, etc.) where your pets can race each other and show off in high stakes competitions. We also want to add more shop options with cosmetics and an inventory to store them. Finally, we want to give desktop notifications full support and add tools for financial planning.

Built With

Submitted to

Bitcamp 2025

Created by

I creating the starting pages and the interactive shop to support the pets! I also included all the great animals

Alex Shrestha
I primarily worked on the Tarot Cards feature and Gemini integration for the project (Tarots, Pet Check-Up). I also worked a lot on the UI/UX scheme/design. Furthermore, I worked on the goals/to-do feature and XP.

Hita Thota
I worked on the pet hover feature we had for the app and configured the background processes to process the timer and icons.

Eric Wang
Jonathan Wu