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I Got Tired of Text Dashboards, So I Built a Pixel Art Command Center
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I Got Tired of Text Dashboards, So I Built a Pixel Art Command Center

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I'm running 27 projects simultaneously. A while back, I built a text-based "Mission Control" dashboard inside Claude Code. Every morning, it would scan all my projects and spit out an ASCII dashboard in the terminal. It worked. But staring at a black terminal every morning got old fast. So I upgraded it into a pixel art visual command center. What Is Pixel Office A desktop app built with Electron. It draws a pixel art office on Canvas 2D, with projects laid out in categorized zones. Honestly — I didn't build this because I needed it. I built it because something you open every day should make you happy. Old (Text) New (Pixel Office) Display Terminal ASCII Pixel art Canvas Project list Text dump Color-coded zones Launch Type claude Double-click the app Talk to AI Same terminal 🚀 Click the rocket Boot startup Manual Auto-launch Session state Unknown Real-time detection 8 Zones The office has 8 zones, each category gets its own color : Zone Color Contains 🔨 FORGE Orange Brainstorming, exp

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