| ▲ | Catch a Bird – I made it for my own sanity(catchabird.com) | |||||||||||||||||||
| 91 points by eduardsik 3 days ago | 18 comments | ||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | ceroxylon 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||
Really beautiful, I was tearing up reading all of the positivity, from simple to complex. A lot of tech stuff, a lot of "dog / my dog", a lot of spouses, kids, food... all so wonderful. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | orbanlevi 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||
Hi Eduard, I'm Levente from HU too. I love the whole concept, I had a similar idea to do it, when I found this site: https://pudding.cool/2026/02/happy-map/ just don't have the time to work on. It's a similar, just not dynamic as yours. Love the design and everything just somehow you should filter the spam with LLM or I don't know, but right now there are lot of birds with "asd" like sentences. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | gkhartman 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||
This is really neat. I love this sort of project. Reminds me of the early days of the Internet while adding some positivity to the world. Thanks for sharing. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | kortex an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||
Absolutely delightful! And i think i can tell the ones from HN (in a good way), they are often like "showed a client a really cool feature i made and they loved it." | ||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | saaaaaam an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||
This is absolutely lovely. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | frogcoder 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||
Wow! This is happy twitter. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | monkpit 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||
Kind of ruined by all the spam ones that just say like “fs” “sd” etc | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | cjstewart88 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||
Woah, this is a unique web experience... thank you for contributing :> | ||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | famahar 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||
This is wonderful. Making this my homepage | ||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | TheSamFischer 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||
Great idea, bookmarked. Thanks for building this. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | erdaniels 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||
This is lovely, thanks | ||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | ambione 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||
loved this. we need more sites like this these days | ||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | eduardsik 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||
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. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | eduardsik 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||||||||||||||
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. | ||||||||||||||||||||