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▲ 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

▲unsnap_biceps 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I flagged a few and then it started telling me that I flagged too many birds for the day. A real shame that the vast majority of the birds I got to see was fake ones.

▲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.

▲Zobat a minute ago | parent | next [-]

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.

▲Hetzner_OL 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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

▲tyler71 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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.

▲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.