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Janis Kauss
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🐱 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 — one paw up, waving luck into your life.

So naturally…
I built one for websites.

🧙‍♂️ Introducing: LuckyCat Popup
It’s a small floating cat that lives in the corner of your site. It waves. That’s it.

No tracking. No user data. Just quiet charm.

I call it LuckyCat Popup, and it’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>

That’s it. The cat appears in the corner and starts waving at your visitors. 🐱👋

😺 Why?
Because eCommerce is hard.
And sometimes… 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 — even if no one asked for them.

📊 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.

🐾 Try it live:
👉 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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