Fetch random quote from indiehackers.com, as a kickstart to your terminal session (add it to your .bashrc or similar), as if you're loading they're page.

fetch_ih_quote.py

#!/usr/bin/python
import numpy as np
import requests
from colored import fg, bg, attr

# after probing, I found out that these are the possible values
# [0, 140[
url = "https://indie-hackers.firebaseio.com/loadingQuotes/{}.json".format(
	np.random.choice(140)
)

r = requests.get(url)
data = r.json()

quote = data['quote']
founder, company = data['byline'].split('of')


print('\n%s"%s"%s%s\n' % (fg(221), quote, attr(7), attr(0)))

print('%s- %sof%s%s\n' % (fg('dark_green_sea'), founder, company, attr(0)))

#print(fg('dark_green_sea') + '(www.indiehackers.com)' + attr(0) + '\n')

So uh, three dependencies, all pip installable to your system python.

Doesn't have color output (got lazy and didn't want to look up the color escape sequences 😅) but here's a bash (+ jq) version:

#!/bin/sh

quote_num=$(($RANDOM%140))
url=https://indie-hackers.firebaseio.com/loadingQuotes/${quote_num}.json

data=$(curl -s $url)

quote=$(echo $data | jq .quote)
byline=$(echo $data | jq -r .byline)

echo $quote
echo "- " $byline