Show HN: My 13-year-old built an ant colony tracker (formicarium.es)

Not closely related to the app itself, but how does the worker count graph work? Do you count them visually and put in the data? Or how do you know how many ants you have?

super impressive

Damn... I just got that, Formic queen in Enders Game... ants

Any web devs that could me this style of UI?

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As a 40 year old who has had colonies since he's your kiddo's age, please thank him for me! I've created an account :).

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Seems like something you could do in a spreadsheet with less time.

What's the advantage?

Are these made up ant colonies?

Would be good if you can set a hemisphere (I assume nuptial flights are different in northern vs southern hemisphere. Adding more ant species would be helpful too. Camponotus consobrinus, iridomyrmex purpureus and aphaenogaster longiceps are pretty common in Australia.

On mobile the site is not properly scaled, I need to horizonally scroll. I'm not into ants so I won't register but this is what I like to see. An expert within a specific field that thanks to AI can now build niche tools that are helpful. Keep it up!

Fancy vibe coded UI, but who doe the counting? Even AI can't count ants with just a single photo as majority of them are underground.

Neat to see, brings back some great memories! And sorry on behalf of the decent people of HN for the weird haters who don't know ant species names or want to crap on the AI-ness.

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Very impressive!

It looks really awesome, he scratched an itch and created a little platform that he can iterate on.

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noways even 13yo can build and deploy production ready apps , crazyyyy

That's really impressive. I think age doesn't matter.

I like it

This is the kind of niche project that makes Show HN fun.