alt Hacker NewsHi 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.
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This is wonderful.
1- Are the birds actual birds species or just randomly generated? How?
2- Do you plan on doing some sort of classification on the messages later? It could be interesting.
Love the site.
>I'd love to hear what break
One bird got "stuck", midair, between the trees for a while. I clicked it two or three times and then it flew to a branch.
This is a great idea and deserves more attention. One thing I'd mention is maybe a guide on the symbols. I wasn't sure what they did and got a crumb & feeding by accident.
Hi there, Hetzner here. I saw you mentioned us, so I tried it out. That's a really cool idea, and I'll pass it onto some people who I think will appreciate it. :D Glad we could be a part of this. --Katie