# Thinking Orbs

- Link: https://100xfounder.com/startup/thinking-orbs/
- Published: 2026-10-03T13:41:16+05:30
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Thinking Orbs is a small React component library of animated status indicators for
AI interfaces. Each orb shows a state an AI agent goes through, such as working,
reasoning, searching, retrying, waiting or compacting its context, so users can 
see what the agent is doing instead of watching a generic spinner.

The library has 8 states, 15 variants, 5 shapes (sphere, cube, octahedron, tetrahedron
and torus) and 8 render styles, from dots to halftone and mesh. It has no dependencies
and is 3.8 KB gzipped, and shapes and styles you don’t import stay out of your bundle.
Orbs take the current text colour, hold still for people who prefer reduced motion,
and can carry a screen-reader label. It works in React 18 or later, or in plain 
JavaScript through a separate vanilla entry point, and you can also copy the source
into your project with the shadcn CLI.

Thinking Orbs is made by Yogesh and is free under the MIT licence. It launched on
Product Hunt on 4 October 2026 and finished #11 for the day with 89 upvotes.

_We have not tested Thinking Orbs ourselves. This page brings together its official
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