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

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A 13-year-old built Formicarium, a web app for managing ant colonies with statistics, care reminders, and no sign-up required.

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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# Formicarium — Gestor de colonias de hormigas Source: [https://formicarium.es/](https://formicarium.es/) No sign\-up required — try it now Register, monitor and care for your ant colonies in one place\. Worker history, care calendar, detailed statistics and more\. ## How it works A complete app for myrmecologists, from beginners to experts\. 01 — Dashboard ### All your colonies at a glance Your main panel shows the status of each colony instantly\. Worker count, species and quick access to any data you need\. - ✓Key data cards for each colony - ✓Create a new colony in seconds - ✓Clean view without clutter 02 — Colony detail ### History and evolution in charts Each colony has its own page with a worker evolution chart, brood status, formicarium type and complete feeding log\. - ✓Worker count chart over time - ✓Brood status: eggs, larvae, pupae… - ✓Complete feeding history 03 — Register ### Add a colony in seconds Simple form to record all the important data: species, queen capture date, formicarium type and brood status\. - ✓Database with hundreds of species - ✓Auto\-fill of species information - ✓Works without creating an account ## Everything you need No subscriptions\. No complications\. 📊 ### Statistics Evolution charts for your entire collection, broken down by colony and species\. 📅 ### Calendar Automatic feeding and cleaning reminders for each colony\. 🌍 ### Multilingual Available in Spanish, English, French, German and Italian\. ### No sign\-up Try the app without an account\. Create one to save your data permanently\. ## Ready to start? Enter directly or create your free account to save your data forever\.

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