Catch a Bird – I made it for my own sanity

Eduard from Budapest described Catch a Bird as a small, personal web project he built to recover a sense of small daily joys: users leave one-sentence notes about what made them happy and the site displays them as birds on a tree. He said he almost didn’t finish it, registered the domain recently, and launched it yesterday; unsolicited messages from strangers gave him energy to continue. Eduard also explained technical choices - one HTML file, no framework, a custom tree module, FastAPI + Postgres on a Hetzner box, self-hosted Umami, and DeepL for on-demand translation - and framed the project as something he “vibe coded” for his own sanity. He invited people to try it and report what breaks, and asked whether a stranger’s sentence can change someone’s day.

A Hetzner commenter (Katie) responded positively, saying they appreciated the idea and would share it with colleagues, and expressing gladness about their company’s role. Commenters’ views clustered around support and curiosity: Eduard emphasized personal motivation and pragmatic implementation, while others highlighted its emotional resonance and practical robustness. Opinions diverged only subtly around testing and durability - people were mostly encouraging but interested in how translations, scaling, and moderation would hold up as more messages arrive.