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

35 pointsposted 8 hours ago
by abelgvidal

26 Comments

cinntaile

an hour ago

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!

nreilly

2 hours 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.

jlengrand

2 hours 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 :).

jianfenglin

an hour 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.

sudo_cowsay

3 hours 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.

zbaby

an hour ago

It's very clearly AI slop (Sorry kid). If it works for you, great! But for others.....

tantalor

2 hours ago

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

What's the advantage?

zbaby

an hour ago

A fancy ui? I don't know if it has a specific advantage besides organization.

jedimastert

33 minutes ago

I mean you could probably say that for most crud applications, the difference is somebody else is already done the work of setting everything up and it looks nice

echoangle

5 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

3 hours ago

from the screenshots it looks like manual data entry

echoangle

3 hours ago

But do people really count 2400 ants manually?

ge96

3 hours ago

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

matheusmoreira

3 hours ago

See also: formic acid, so named because it occurs in ants.

mindfulmark

41 minutes ago

also the french word for ants, fourmis

matheusmoreira

a minute ago

Also the portuguese word for ant, formiga, which derives from latin, formica.

hmartin

an hour ago

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.

skeater15

3 hours ago

Any web devs that could me this style of UI?

dewey

3 hours ago

Claude Code or other AI agents produce that by default, usually also this hue of orange.

donkey_brains

2 hours ago

“Some help”

zbaby

an hour ago

Nah I believe that. They just forgot to mention some other help (Claude).

ljcoco

4 hours ago

super impressive