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

https://formicarium.es
23•abelgvidal•6h ago
He's 13 years old. He wanted to track his own ant colonies — growth, feeding, humidity, and other metrics. He built the whole app himself with some help from AI tools; I just helped him deploy it to a server. Would love to hear your feedback!

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echoangle•2h 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•1h ago
from the screenshots it looks like manual data entry
echoangle•56m ago
But do people really count 2400 ants manually?
ljcoco•2h ago
super impressive
ge96•1h ago
Damn... I just got that, Formic queen in Enders Game... ants
matheusmoreira•1h ago
See also: formic acid, so named because it occurs in ants.
skeater15•1h ago
Any web devs that could me this style of UI?
dewey•1h ago
Claude Code or other AI agents produce that by default, usually also this hue of orange.
selfawareMammal•1h ago
Excuse me. Lasius what?!
loco5niner•51m ago
> black garden ant (Lasius niger) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_garden_ant

Probably from Latin or Greek.

mark124mj•31m ago
I know right that one caught me off guard.
sudo_cowsay•47m 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.
jlengrand•46m 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 :).
donkey_brains•27m ago
“Some help”
tantalor•15m ago
Seems like something you could do in a spreadsheet with less time.

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