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Janis Kauss
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๐Ÿฑ I Built a Digital Lucky Cat That Lives in Your Website and Just... Waves

In Japanese culture, shop owners often place a waving cat figurine (Maneki-neko) in their store windows to invite good fortune, wealth, and customers.

It's a tiny, silent mascot โ€” one paw up, waving luck into your life.

So naturallyโ€ฆ
I built one for websites.

๐Ÿง™โ€โ™‚๏ธ Introducing: LuckyCat Popup
Itโ€™s a small floating cat that lives in the corner of your site. It waves. Thatโ€™s it.

No tracking. No user data. Just quiet charm.

I call it LuckyCat Popup, and itโ€™s somewhere between:

  • a superstition-inspired widget
  • a digital art experiment
  • and a very unserious marketing tool

You install it by pasting one line of HTML:

<!-- Add Luck -->
<script src="https://absurd.website/lucky-cat/luckycat.js"></script>

Thatโ€™s it. The cat appears in the corner and starts waving at your visitors. ๐Ÿฑ๐Ÿ‘‹

๐Ÿ˜บ Why?
Because eCommerce is hard.
And sometimesโ€ฆ maybe you just need a little luck.

LuckyCat Popup is part of a bigger project at absurd.website where I build weird services & tools that kind of work โ€” even if no one asked for them.

๐Ÿ“Š Case Study (kind of)
Before: struggling with abandoned carts.
After: yacht. Sushi. VC attention. Bikini deck pitch calls.
What changed?
Just one line of code.

Okay, maybe not.
But the cat definitely waved.

๐Ÿพ Try it live:
๐Ÿ‘‰ https://absurd.website/lucky-cat

If you end up using it, drop me a link! I'd love to feature real examples in a showcase section.

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