Show HN: My 13-year-old built an ant colony tracker

(formicarium.es)

25 points | by abelgvidal 6 hours ago

14 comments

  • jianfenglin 0 minutes ago
    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.
  • cinntaile 5 minutes ago
    [delayed]
  • nreilly 23 minutes ago
    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.
  • sudo_cowsay 1 hour ago
    I'll just ignore the em dash in the post description. Also, why does "Especies" on top right (next to sign in) appear in the English version as well. Adding onto that point, the translation doesn't work well. Just fix up the "Multilingual" feature and it should be pretty good.
  • tantalor 36 minutes ago
    Seems like something you could do in a spreadsheet with less time.

    What's the advantage?

  • echoangle 3 hours ago
    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?
    • Chu4eeno 1 hour ago
      from the screenshots it looks like manual data entry
      • echoangle 1 hour ago
        But do people really count 2400 ants manually?
  • jlengrand 1 hour ago
    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 :).
  • watchdarkly 29 minutes ago
    Are these made up ant colonies?
  • ge96 1 hour ago
    Damn... I just got that, Formic queen in Enders Game... ants
    • matheusmoreira 1 hour ago
      See also: formic acid, so named because it occurs in ants.
  • skeater15 1 hour ago
    Any web devs that could me this style of UI?
    • dewey 1 hour ago
      Claude Code or other AI agents produce that by default, usually also this hue of orange.
  • selfawareMammal 1 hour ago
    Excuse me. Lasius what?!
  • donkey_brains 49 minutes ago
    “Some help”
  • ljcoco 2 hours ago
    super impressive