My kids kept asking for a pet. The pet rock joke got old. Fake fish tank?

Three kids. One job. Limited capacity for keeping things alive. The answer to “can we get a pet” has been no for years. The pet rock bought me six months. “Here’s a rock. Feed it twice a day.” Then it stopped working. So we built this instead (did it ever worked?) tanksimulator.fish You feed the fish. You clean the glass. You add plants. Days go by. Nothing dies if you forget about it for a week. My 8-year-old was the product manager. She ran the backlog. Features got cut. The review process was one question: “but why would a fish do that.” No ads. No backend. No login. Just static files. Very minimal tracking. Only enough to know if anyone besides my kids has opened it. Feeding my ego, or starving it. We’ll see. Did it solve the pet problem? No. They now want a real fish and the website. But nothing has to be flushed. Feedback welcome. Feature requests go through the PM. She is not swayed by upvotes. I run it in and old Mac on my living room.   submitted by   /u/AmphibianHungry2466 [link]   [comments]