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Bobara
A capybara for every boba
2 followers
A capybara for every boba
2 followers
Momo is a capybara who lives in a small hot spring on your iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Apple TV. Buy a boba tea in real life, tap it in, and something arrives: a new friend for the water, a prize for the teahouse shelf. His onsen gets the same sky you do — clear, cloudy, rain, storm or snow, at whatever hour it is where you are. Nothing decays, nothing expires, and nothing ever asks anything of you.
Hi Product Hunt! I’m Matt, and I made Bobara - a true act of love and passion.
I love boba tea and I love capybaras, enough that I have a tattoo of a capybara drinking a boba on my leg - seriously!. So Bobara was never going to be a serious app. It’s Momo, a calm capybara who lives in a hot spring on your iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Apple TV, and he is the most fun I’ve had making anything.
He's truly part of your world - his onsen follows your real weather: when it rains where you are, it rains on Momo too, and the same goes for snow, wind and thunderstorms. The Home Screen and watch widgets show the same sky you have outside. Building thunderstorms was a ton of fun for the intensity of the sounds, lightening, rain, wind and more. It's borderline a weather app :)
On Apple TV, his onsen fills the big screen, so you can leave it running with calm music, water sounds and crickets at night and switch between popular cities worldwide to experience Dubai live for example.
The one thing you do is tell Momo when you’ve bought a boba tea in real life. Sometimes a friend comes to visit afterwards, or a little treasure lands on his tea house shelf. Every boba you drink gets to be a tiny happy moment.
A few choices I made on purpose:
No streaks, no timers, nothing to grind. Leave him for a month and nothing goes wrong.
One $4.99 purchase covers iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Apple TV. There are also optional character packs if you’d like more friends to unlock
No ads, no subscriptions, no account and no analytics.
It isn’t trying to make you more productive or healthier. I wanted to make something whimsical and peaceful, and I’m so happy to be putting something delightful out into the world for other people to enjoy. I think we could all use a little more of that right now.
I’d love to hear what you think, especially which weather you’d like to see Momo in next. Thank you for stopping by, and for helping me spread a little more joy.