Sidekins: Meet your sidekin.

by Ardith Beahan

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Oct 6, 2026 Social & Community

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sidekins.com Solo dev from India here. I've been building Sidekins for a few weeks and I've got hooked on using it myself, which I didn't expect. You design a little pixel character, it lives on your Mac and peeps from the side of the screen. The fun part is the social side: I ask my kin to go to my friend's screen and do something silly (a dance, a fart sound, become Shrek and tell them I'm running late) and it actually shows up on their desktop and says it. It also does rea...