Your keystrokes, digested into anime ASCII art.
A desktop app that counts your keystrokes, then turns them into gacha pulls of animated ASCII art from 300 top anime. More popular anime = rarer pulls.
Includes a Dynamic Island overlay at the macOS notch β a pixel art dagashi shop with walking characters, that expands to show your latest pull.
git clone https://github.com/TomYang-TZ/dagashi.git
cd dagashi && pnpm install
./scripts/install.sh
./scripts/start.shRequires: macOS 14+, Rust, pnpm, Claude Code CLI
- A daemon counts keystrokes (never records what you type β only counts)
- Every hour, your stats trigger a gacha pull
- Claude picks a character matching your typing personality
- A GIF is fetched, converted to ASCII art, and rendered
300 anime from MAL, ranked by popularity.
| Rarity | Rank | Examples |
|---|---|---|
| Legendary | #1-10 | Attack on Titan, Death Note |
| Epic | #11-50 | Steins;Gate, Gintama |
| Rare | #51-150 | Monster, Trigun |
| Uncommon | #151-250 | Mid-tier discoveries |
| Common | #251-300 | Edge of the top 300 |
A standalone Swift app that sits at the macOS notch.
- Collapsed: pixel art dagashi shop with walkers and bikers β live weather
- Expanded: click to reveal latest pull as animated ASCII art
- Auto-cycles: color clean β color block β mono clean β mono block
./scripts/start.sh # Start daemon + app + island
./scripts/stop.sh # Stop everything
./scripts/dev.sh # Build from source + launch
./scripts/rebuild.sh # Full rebuild + install + startThree processes, shared filesystem (~/.dagashi/):
| Component | Stack | Role |
|---|---|---|
| dagashi-daemon | Rust | Keystroke stats aggregation |
| Dagashi.app | Tauri v2 (Rust + JS) | UI, gacha pulls, gallery |
| DagashiIsland | Swift/SwiftUI | Dynamic Island overlay at notch |
Dagashi (ι§θε) are cheap Japanese candy from tiny neighborhood shops. You'd walk in after school with pocket change, spin a lottery wheel, and peel open a mystery wrapper. The candy was cheap. The moment wasn't.
You type thousands of keystrokes every day. You work hard. You deserve a mystery surprise every hour.
That's Dagashi. Your keystrokes are pocket change. Every hour, the shop cashes them in and hands you a gacha pull, a character from 300 anime, rendered as animated ASCII art. Common pulls come easy. Legendaries take real effort.
The Dynamic Island at your macOS notch is the shop itself, a pixel art dagashi-ya with live weather and foot traffic. Click to open it like unwrapping a candy. Your latest pull is inside.
Only aggregate stats β character frequencies, hourly volume, key regions. No words, no sentences, no order. All processing happens locally on your machine β nothing is sent to any server. Deaf mode instantly pauses recording.
Press Start 2P | MyAnimeList via Jikan API | Klipy | Open Vibe Island
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