Catch a Bird – I made it for my own sanity

This is really nice, some of the messages have really warmed my heart and are really nice slice of humanity.

I really like it. It would be nice to have a filter though that filters out politics. "Free Palestine" on multiple birds ruin the experience.

Very cute, +1 for team fun. =3

Feature request - filter out common, low-effort posts (e.g. "coffee"). It should be easy to spot these from the data, and thus easy to automate the filtering.

There could be another place for these common posts on the site somewhere (might be interesting to surface how many people are happy about "coffee" vs "tea" for example), but on the bird view they just end up being a disappointing click.

This is lovely, thanks

loved this. we need more sites like this these days

I love it. One feature request: at present it feels like your own thoughts disappear into the void. Your birds should be shown on the tree, with a highlight, and some obvious way of seeing people's reactions to them

How soon until LLMs start using this as another place to communicate...

There's a lot of gibberish replies but flagging it says "you flagged enough for today, thanks"

This made me smile and made my wife reply with "kissie eyes", which I'm assured, is better than "hugging face".

Why a people spamming weird stuff into a site like this. This is why we can't have nice things.

Hi HN, Eduard from Budapest.

Things are rough here lately, and I noticed I stopped seeing the small good things. They are still there, just covered by the big bad ones. 18 years ago I built a little project that collected positive tweets, and reading them changed me more then I expected. So I made a new one, for my own sanity.

It's a tree. You leave one sentence about what made you happy today, and it lands as a bird. The rest you find out by trying. (In Hungarian, very happy people can catch birds, hence the name.)

I almost didn't finish it. I registered the domain only recently and it went live yesterday. I showed it to some friends, they passed it on, and messages started coming in from people I don't know. That gave me the energy back, so here it is.

Stack, since this is HN: one HTML file, no framework, a custom tree module, FastAPI + Postgres on one Hetzner box, self hosted Umami, DeepL to translate birds on demand. I vibe coded most of it, somtimes in a hurry. I needed it.

I'd love to hear what breaks, and whether a sentence from a stranger can change your day a bit.

Hi HN, Eduard from Budapest.

Things are rough here lately, and I noticed I stopped seeing the small good things. They are still there, just covered by the big bad ones. 18 years ago I built a little project that collected positive tweets, and reading them changed me more then I expected. So I made a new one, for my own sanity.

It’s a tree. You leave one sentence about what made you happy today, and it lands as a bird. The rest you find out by trying. (In Hungarian, very happy people can catch birds, hence the name.)

I almost didn’t finish it. I registered the domain only recently and it went live yesterday. I showed it to some friends, they passed it on, and messages started coming in from people I don’t know. That gave me the energy back, so here it is.

Stack, since this is HN: one HTML file, no framework, a custom tree module, FastAPI + Postgres on one Hetzner box, self hosted Umami, DeepL to translate birds on demand. I vibe coded most of it, somtimes in a hurry. I needed it.

I’d love to hear what breaks, and whether a sentence from a stranger can change your day a bit.

I didn’t expect any of this. I’ve been reading every comment and a lot of the birds, and some of them got me. The person who went outside for the first time after a panic attack. The ones about dogs and kids and coffee. Even the people who sat there and couldn’t think of anything today, and still said thank you.

I made this because I stopped seeing the small good things. You gave a lot of them back to me.

I’m working through the feedback now. The feed icon, the send away button, and the spam. Thank you all.

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