Koi.rest - Virtual koi pond for calm and focus
Show HN: Koi.rest – watch some fish and regain your balance
Koi.rest is a virtual koi pond designed to help you regain your balance. Created by Paul, a developer with ADHD, it offers a quiet corner of the internet where you can watch fish swim peacefully. The project was brought to life using AI, overcoming the barrier of not knowing JavaScript. It's a simple, serene experience that promotes mindfulness and relaxation, perfect for a mental break. Visit koi.rest to enjoy the calming effect of watching koi, alone or with others.
I made the thing. The weird, little, quiet koi pond. The silly project of passion. The little corner of the internet to let strangers watch fish quietly, together. I hope this pond helps you as much as it helped me.
- 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
- rhplus
Pleasant flashbacks to the Windows 95 classic Serene Screen “Marine Aquarium”
https://youtu.be/PprsZgA-kxs?si=waSpdI4J323fNNGh
https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/a-former-air-force-p...
- hatthew
It's running at 3fps or something like that. Is that a me problem or a "lots of traffic" problem?
- 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.