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Katy Sander and I joined forces to trap a demon and bind it to the Mac notch. He wasn’t happy about it. But he’s just as helpful as the other agents, and a lot funnier.
Meet Notchling. Hand-drawn, then vectorized and rigged in Rive. All animations, state machines, and timelines were built using the CLI, along with the ElevenLabs and Claude integrations that bring him to life in the final Swift package.
Thanks mate! They would have been until CLI 😂
well done
This is genius! Turning the most hated UI element - the notch - into a demon character. Love the concept and the Rive execution is so smooth. Notchling deserves to be hired 😂
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