Report Lost or Found Dog and Print The pdf

http://www.dog-finder.org/how-it-works

by resca79 • 13 years ago

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resca797• 13 years ago

The workflow is:

1) Report Your dog by iPhone, android o Web app

2) Share the position of your lost/found dog with other users

3) Get the pdf of your report and print it

4) hang poster in strategic places

harlock81• 13 years ago

very nice app!

diminish• 13 years ago

Very good idea, for dogs, and other pets indeed; as the ThePetfinder.

1. Needs to get significant traction to be of use. Why not start from one city cover it fully; go US and global, similar to FB/harvard->unis->world. Traction and promotion on facebook seems to be more important than other networks.

2. A classification by users or automatic through image processing, for pet photos may be valuable for found pets to be searched by attributes.

resca797• 13 years ago

Yep thank! very interesting suggestions

MasterScrat• 13 years ago

Next step: an "Amber alert"-like notification system?

resca797• 13 years ago

Thanks for the idea!

willholloway• 13 years ago

I really like this idea. Thanks for building it!

Can I make a suggestion? It might help find some dogs.

A lot of breeds have a society for that breed, for example Jack Russell Terriers have the JRTCA.

These societies have lost and found forums. When someone finds a breed they often go and look for information about them [1]

This worked for me around 1998, I made a post there and my Jack Russell was returned to me by a family almost an our drive from where I lived. How he got there, I don't know but I was very happy to get him back!

Maybe add a reminder to the apps workflow with a link to the forum for that breed.

If you automate the process you could charge for it. I paid $39.99 to a dog finding service back then that I suspect did little.

1. http://www.therealjackrussell.com/misc/lostdog.php

prawn• 13 years ago

Might be worth proofreading your site or, if English isn't your first language, having someone look over it for you.

Good luck with the site!

resca797• 13 years ago

You're right :)

grimtrigger• 13 years ago

Your PDF really should have your URL prominently. That way every poster hung up spreads awareness about your site (and dog owners who don't know about it).

uptown3• 13 years ago

And please - if you have a pet - consider getting them microchipped. It does wonders for connecting pets with their owners.

To the site creator, you may consider adding the microchip # as an attribute for the lost pets.

toomuchtodo2• 13 years ago

Can you read the microchips used in pets using an RFID scanner in Android?

Everyone knows pressurenet, right? Distributed barometer network? Distributed RFID network is the next step.

uptown3• 13 years ago

Nope, but virtually any shelter or veterinarian will be able to read the microchip.

gohrt• 13 years ago

Tile App does that.

http://www.thetileapp.com/

amateur89• 13 years ago

Hi, are you selling your web site? https://flippa.com/2958049-dog-finder-web-and-apps

resca797• 13 years ago

yes it's a project that I love, but I have never got money from this.The "visitors" is a "Feature" for this app and a it need a good marketing strategy

mathattack• 13 years ago

This is remarkably practical. Is the next step putting a GPS on the dog's tag?

resca797• 13 years ago

I think so, some company today offer a service like your suggestion. But i think that dog finder could be an Hub, because it has a very simple structure, and a set of Rest Api ready to works

dave_sid2• 13 years ago

Is it supposed to say "Sing In" when you press the "Add Dog" button?

dave_sid2• 13 years ago

I do like it.

alexhawdon• 13 years ago

Great idea.

Any reason you don't appear to have registered cat-finder.org? I see that pet-finder.org is taken but unused.

At least one quick win to be had methinks.

resca797• 13 years ago

Hi, the api for developer are available

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6185275

http://www.dog-finder.org/api-for-developers

pippuzzu79• 13 years ago

nice app!

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