Hi Eduard, Liam from Ireland here. Making my first comment on HN to say that not only has your site made me smile, it's given me renewed optimism that technology can be used for good, and to bring people closer together. Thank you for sharing.
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
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.
I have the same feeling about the icon for breadcrumbs. But I don't have a better idea yet. On mobile, it might be a good idea to add some clues on the first visit.
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.
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.
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.
I find it interesting that if you switch between languages on the site, for some languages it shows an additional paragraph abd explains the language-specific variant of the proverb.
E.g. in French, English or German, you will have this, while other languages seem to fall back to the English "happy as a lark" one. (And all of them refer to the Hungarian proverb of course)
Did the translation model do that "on its own" or was that a conscious decision?
Thank you for building this, it's a beautiful reminder that the world is pretty awesome, and it's something I am gonna keep up on my third screen when I need a smile.
For feedback, I'd say make it more obvious to feed. The icon is not obvious and you'd likely feed a lot more than flag.
It would be bad if people make bots to spam non human birds even if they could be prevented from being straight up bad, even good seeming birds that aren't human would be a drag. I imagine text based would be hard due to the extremely short nature. And obviously we don't want to compromise privacy.
Maybe if you don't "send away" a bird it will repeat. I get many repeat messages after I opened the site again in the same browser. Maybe I should have sent them away.
Adding the bird ID to the fed list would be nice, or some kind of limited opportunity to retrieve info later. A few times, I've wanted to share or retranslate a bird that's still on the tree but I can't revisit it unless I also grabbed the share link when I first caught it.
This is lovely. And also quite clever in the mechanic - as well as being beautiful it makes abuse by ‘the internet’ which is always so inevitable with any open message posting, not very rewarding since it just comes and goes.
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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.
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.
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."
I find it interesting that if you switch between languages on the site, for some languages it shows an additional paragraph abd explains the language-specific variant of the proverb.
E.g. in French, English or German, you will have this, while other languages seem to fall back to the English "happy as a lark" one. (And all of them refer to the Hungarian proverb of course)
Did the translation model do that "on its own" or was that a conscious decision?
> I didn't sleep the entire night and it's 7 am but I am unemployed
My bird so far:
Caught 25 times · fed 4 times · 23 cities
For feedback, I'd say make it more obvious to feed. The icon is not obvious and you'd likely feed a lot more than flag.
It would be bad if people make bots to spam non human birds even if they could be prevented from being straight up bad, even good seeming birds that aren't human would be a drag. I imagine text based would be hard due to the extremely short nature. And obviously we don't want to compromise privacy.
I want this as an app on my TV (TizenOS), where a different bird gets highlighted every 1-2 minues, and if I click OK on my remote I feed it.
No other features. Just that.