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Show HN: Koi.rest – watch some fish and regain your balance

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Comments (38)

  • JKCalhoun
    Exactly how I have found vibe-coding to be. I make things with LLMs help that I otherwise wouldn't be bothered to. I've vibe-coded perhaps a half dozen tools for my personal use and am happier for it.Keep going.
  • dylanhouli
    Cool idea but as some others have said the website was running quite slow for me. I noticed it at first when hovering over the 'enter' button (so before even loading the pond) because the hover animation on the button kicked in really late feeling.Then actually entering took a few seconds and it was quite laggy looking at all the fish.Once those things are fixed I think the idea is neat. It would be cool to be able to interact with the pond in some way (click lily pads, drop food in the water, click the water to make it splash) but that might not be what you're going for with this
  • hatthew
    It's running at 3fps or something like that. Is that a me problem or a "lots of traffic" problem?
  • rhplus
    Pleasant flashbacks to the Windows 95 classic Serene Screen “Marine Aquarium”https://youtu.be/PprsZgA-kxs?si=waSpdI4J323fNNGhhttps://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/a-former-air-force-p...
  • johnsmith1840
    Been on a train of thought recently that with AI making web dev so much easier that we should be making more beautiful experiences.I have always felt ultra minimalism is partly a way of fighting bugs. Why can't we put more effort to make every site a great experience in of itself?Been experimenting with going way beyond my usual frontend work for something truly special. This made me think if it. It's 10x the effort but that's about the same effort I put in before manually making a minimal one.I want more koi fish swimming around my saas.
  • max979
    Had a desktop aquarium once, very calming. This digital version is probably less messy and just as effective.
  • jeromechoo
    This is neat. I like the zen background sounds. I'm particularly fascinated by digital third places with extremely limited social interaction (like cursor camp by Neal). I think it has something to do with the impossibility of something like this happening in real life.That said, I'm not sure how real the "koi you see are other people visiting the pond together with you" bit is. I only ever saw 3 swimming koi. Maybe that's the base.
  • pozol
    This is great! The sounds and visuals are a great way to recenter. Only UX thing I’d say, is it would be nice, and less distracting, if other “users/koi” popping in instead kind of faded in. Them suddenly appearing kind of pulls you out of the zen mode. Awesome idea!
  • samrj12
    Seems like quite laggy (I suppose bcz of heavy assets and rendering). I would have liked it more if we had some interactive elments with the pond or the fishes because I can only stare at it for some seconds lol
  • Cider9986
    I really like the UI especially the about page. I don't think you are supposed to be able to see the about page on the playing page (it took a bit to start and then started when I was in about) but it looks good there with the blur.Here's a list of other sound/relaxation websites: https://fmhy.net/audio#ambient-relaxation.This one is pretty funny but not relaxing to me. It may be a covid remnant: https://imisstheoffice.eu/
  • natnatenathan
    I understand your trepidation sharing this, given how often 'vibe coded' is used derogatorily. I like what you made, thank you.
  • thoughtpeddler
    Super cool, thanks for making this! I've been there with you on the perfectionism. Glad that 'good enough' won this time, and we're all the better for it. Keep going!
  • marcuskaz
    Too many koi fish is stressful (and slow)I'd love a version without the multiplayer and just zen
  • wateralien
    I do this with the screensavers on the Apple TV device. They’re amazing.
  • Coeur
    Have a big virtual hug from me, hxii!
  • grvdrm
    Awesome. Top of bookmark list for a daily zen!
  • Suhinnall27
    This is honestly super cool, and a lot of fun. I was about to say something about the koi fish spawning and despawning until I read that they are the other users on the site, which is an awesome mechanic. Is there a way to set this as a screen saver or background?
  • farrysaini
    This is great! I would really like this as live background on Android.
  • Jtarii
    You might want to prompt ChatGPT to increase the frame rate of the fish animation.
  • suzukivenom
    thanks! had a really rough day
  • _qua
    Love it
  • bredren
    Great post, OP. Way to overcome. Keep it up.
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