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New comment by jayteedee in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

jayteedee — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:41:56 +0000

Update. I didn't expect my parents to enjoy playing the game. Apparently, they are aware that they are falling for AI videos and don't like it. And there are a lot of entertaining videos to keep them engaged and easy to spot "give me's" to keep the frustration level down.

New comment by jayteedee in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

jayteedee — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 07:20:06 +0000

I like those! A picture of the bird would be the matching game. I want to add a bird song game too. The idea was to make it like the 20 questions game. Maybe I should lean into this more. I did make something where you guess the species and it narrows down through it's taxonomy.

http://jerm.cool/cafauna/

It's a bad ripoff of the much, much more fun metazooa (https://metazooa.com/play/game). I kike it but it gets real annoying when your down to 1 of 10 bats or something. I've been using it to read and edit Wikipedia articles for undeveloped pages.

New comment by jayteedee in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

jayteedee — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 06:56:57 +0000

I love this. Each time my parents need their wifi fixed I'm going to make them do 5 of this app before it get to work.

New comment by jayteedee in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

jayteedee — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 06:53:47 +0000

I made a game where you try to guess a daily mystery bird.

http://jerm.cool/bird/

It pulls a list of birds reported on eBird in your county in the last 2 weeks and you ask preselected questions like the the color or size to whittle down the possibilities. I also made a matching game that uses the same list and you have to match the name to a picture of the bird. I set it up for California for now. I wanted to get more comfortable with SQL and APIs.

Feedback welcome.