GitHub is now selling a $30 Octocat plush doll

GitHub, the company that offers free and enterprise versions of source code repository software based on the Git open-source software, today unveiled its latest product: a plush doll in the form of its Octocat mascot. It costs $30.

It’s cute. It’s got those big eyes and those eight signature tentacles. People will buy them. In a couple of years, technology workers’ children will be inevitably toting them around or tucking them in bed at home.

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“Just don’t feed these octocats. They’re already stuffed,” Brandi Firestine, whose official title at GitHub is Shoptocat — meaning she works with GitHub merchandise — wrote in a blog post.

GitHub even made a really cute video to mark the debut of the doll, which fittingly goes by the name Octoplush.

GitHub is not the first tech company to make a doll. Salesforce has done that for its mascot, SaaSy.

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Hooray, it's Friday! Can't wait to relax this weekend with my new friend! What is everyone else up to? pic.twitter.com/SLrS4IYhVn

— Salesforce SaaSy (@TooSaaSy) October 9, 2015

But if I’m being honest, the Octoplush is cuter. Sorry, Mr. Benioff.

Tivo has made a doll of its mascot, which is a TV with two goofy antennas.

But it doesn’t even have eyes. The Octoplush is definitely a better companion.

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You can buy the Octoplush here. Or if a little figurine is more your speed, GitHub has that too, in three-inch and five-inch varieties.