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😸Catbot Integration, AI Office, Cat Mode (AI Avatar v17: VS Code and Chrome Extension)

Web Developer Hyper on August 16, 2026

Intro AI Avatar is a free app where your VRoid (VRM) avatar cheers you with all its might.πŸ€— It lives in your VS Code sidebar (reacts to ...
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Shubhra Pokhariya

The Catbot integration is such a fun addition, especially the Cat Boss option. I like that it’s not just an external bot being launched, but can actually become part of the AI Office experience. And Cat Mode with the cat-specific expressions, poses, and avatar details is such a fun touch. Really fun project! 😺

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Web Developer Hyper

Thank you for your comment! πŸ˜†
It was fun integrating Cathot into AI Avatar!
Cat features have a lot of variety, so I might add another one in the future.
Fun wins over everything!

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Cat bot and ai avatar looks amazing πŸ™ƒπŸ˜

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Web Developer Hyper

Thank you, my dear Candy Pink! 😻

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Thanks πŸ™ˆ My best wishes for you to hit 1K+ downloads soon! You totally deserve it ❀️

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That's a long way to go. πŸ˜΅β€πŸ’«
But I might get there with supporters like you! πŸ’ͺ

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Anna Villarreal

I appreciate your energy and enthusiasm, and you did such a great job implementing Catbot! Excellent work taking the lead on adding him in, it's nice to be able to work with another developer on the other side of the planet, so cool! Thank you for giving me the opportunity. It is clear that you are invested in your project and care very much about it. You are a beacon of light in an unforgiving landscape @webdeveloperhyper ! πŸ¦„βœ¨οΈ

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Web Developer Hyper

Thank you for the collaboration! 🐈
I love CatBot, so I'm happy to integrate it.
Especially, the design and the legs are cool!
CatBot can do even more, so I'm looking forward to the feature updates too!
We sure had a big time difference! 🀣

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Anna Villarreal

Yes we did have a big time difference! haha πŸ˜‚

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Aryan Choudhary

Man, it’s honestly crazy seeing how far AI Avatar has come from where it started. 😭

I still remember our avatar collaboration being one of the things that kicked this whole journey off, so seeing it grow into Catbot integration, AI Office, Cat Mode, TTS, all these animations, and now 200+ installs is genuinely really cool to watch.

And thank you for mentioning me as your CMO πŸ˜‚ I don't know if I deserve the title, but I'm definitely happy to keep cheering you on and watching you turn every update into something more fun than the last one.

What I like most is that you never seem to lose the original spirit of the project, you keep experimenting and adding things simply because they're fun. That's probably a big reason people enjoy following the journey.

Keep going man. Can't wait to see what version 18 brings!!!!

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Web Developer Hyper

Thank you for your comment! πŸ˜„
Yes, fun is my biggest motivation for moving forward.
I always start by planning to add cool and useful features with up-to-date technology, but somehow I end up focusing on fun when the update is done. 🀣

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Daniel Balcarek

Great idea with CatBot and the worker-boss conversation too! 🀣

Btw, how did you manage to speed up the compilation time?

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Web Developer Hyper

Two update plans for boss-worker conversations:

  1. Use an AI API. They will chat endlessly and eat up all the tokens. 🀣
  2. Use a local LLM. It's slower, but won't go bankrupt from using too much AI. πŸ˜‚

The full build took 30 seconds.
By skipping the Chrome version build, Kokoro TTS build, type checking, and building only the VS Code version, it took 10 seconds.
3 times faster! πŸ’¨πŸ’¨πŸ’¨

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Glen Allen

What I find interesting here is the shift from AI simply generating responses to becoming part of the user's working environment. The contextual messages based on session length, time, and activity are a small feature, but they show how much more useful an assistant can feel when it reacts to context rather than waiting for a prompt.

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Web Developer Hyper

Thank you for your comment! πŸ˜ƒ Yes, speech bubbles are a core feature of AI Avatar, so I'd like to add more patterns and messages to make users feel like they're having a real conversation. But I also want to keep it from becoming too complicated.

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Marat Sabitov

Great update! It would be interesting to see a Catbot in the form of a Maneki-neko – it will surely bring more users or money to your projectπŸ’°οΈ

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Haha! 🀣 I want to make a paid plan called the Maneki Neko Plan that costs $200/month. It will call in money and make me a millionaire. πŸ’° Oops, not me, the user should be the millionaire.

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Benjamin Nguyen

Wow! nice man. you are getting really good with the avatar.

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Web Developer Hyper

Thank you for checking!😊
With all the supporters like you, I can keep updating it.
Please stay tuned for more updates!

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Benjamin Nguyen

No problem! It sound good

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Hemapriya Kanagala

Loved the Catbot integration. I shared it with a few friends too! With the progress you’re making and all the fun updates still to come, I’m sure we’ll hit 500 soon and then 1K! Fingers crossed 🀞

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Thank you for your support!😊 Word of mouth is a good way to increase users. If each user recommends it to just 3 new friends 7 times, that's 3 Γ— 3 Γ— 3 Γ— 3 Γ— 3 Γ— 3 = 729 new users. I should try to make AI Avatar something that users want to share.