I have cats. Their litter boxes are in the basement. Out of sight, out of mind, until it’s been three days and everyone’s unhappy.

Phone reminders don’t work. I dismiss them without thinking. I needed something that just sits there, quietly judging, getting harder to ignore the longer I wait. Something I can’t swipe away.

So I made a desktop widget. A pixel cat that reflects how clean the litter box is. Happy when it’s fresh. Uncomfortable after a day. Unhappy after two, or whatever timeline you set. Keep ignoring it and a rain cloud appears over its head, then flies start circling the box, then the cat’s just staring at you with a broken heart. The guilt escalates until you do something about it.

Log a scoop, everything resets. Build a streak, earn little hearts. Skip a day, lose them. There’s even an adventure mode: click the mouse toy and it turns into a Monkey Island-style interface where you can apologize to your cat for being a negligent owner.

First of a series. Litter boxes, dishes, laundry, teeth, water, vitamins, sunscreen, flossing, stretching, meds, plants, fish tank, air filter, trash day, recycling, vacuuming, sheets, towels, you name it. Tamagotchi guilt trips for brains that need visual stakes. Because sometimes you need a pixel creature to judge you into taking care of things.