Show HN: Birdle – an uplifting Wordle derivative based on viral tweets

[mox111]

Hey HN

I built this simple app that grabs four popular tweets from the last 24 hours and removes a word from each, so that the missing words spell out a phrase. It's the player's job to guess the missing words.

A key motive for building this was that, to be honest, I was finding much of the news and social media dialogue quite depressing. I thought that if a wholesome or inspirational phrase can be built out of these (often tiresome) tweets, then there would be something nice about that.

The stack included GCloud scheduler (for daily Tweet scraping and automatic puzzle generation), Supabase (which, by the way, is fantastic) and Next / Vercel.

[inatreecrown2]

very nice! Request: I wish the app would show all the tries, not just the last one (so I don't need to remember which letter was good or not)

congrats for making a nice app!

[mox111]

thanks a lot! yeah I thought about that - it is a bit of a challenge on mobile to fit everything in with the lack of real-estate. I will keep that feedback in mind :)