[HN Gopher] Show HN: Waulog - A digital companion for dog owners
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Show HN: Waulog - A digital companion for dog owners
I've built Waulog (https://waulog.com), a web app to help dog
owners track their pets' health and activities. It features: -
Activity logging (walks, meals, etc.) - Health monitoring (weight,
vomits, feeding schedule) - Family sharing for coordinated care -
QR code profiles for lost dogs - 100% Free As a dog owner, I
created this to solve my own pain points. I'd love feedback from
the HN community, especially on: 1. Additional features you'd find
useful 2. UX improvements 3. Privacy concerns and how to address
them Any thoughts or suggestions are appreciated!
Author : xyborg
Score : 13 points
Date : 2024-09-13 08:59 UTC (4 days ago)
(HTM) web link (waulog.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (waulog.com)
| gus_massa wrote:
| Do you have some screenshots?
| xyborg wrote:
| I included some here: https://waulog.com/guide But I will add a
| new section with more detailed screenshots.
| gus_massa wrote:
| Why do most of the screenshots have an attention sign?
| xyborg wrote:
| Excellent question, I changed the icon to a dog face one,
| it's the "emergency card" quick access. I need to improve
| my UI/UX skills... :/ When you touch or click that icon, it
| will show you a card with all the information you might
| need to have at hand about your dog (owner info, allergies,
| medications, vet contact, etc.) You need to add this info
| into your dog's profile first. I will try to add a new
| section with more screenshots and update some of them.
| TripleChecker wrote:
| Neat idea. Agree with the below suggestion for screenshots. A
| video would also go a long way on the homepage for how to use.
|
| Integrating google sign in might lower friction.
|
| Small error in that there are no frequently asked questions in
| the FAQ section of https://waulog.com/guide#faq
| Krasnol wrote:
| My first question with such a project are: how will you pay for
| that service, and what features will I have to pay for in the
| future?
|
| Don't take me wrong. This is a great idea, and I'll have a dog
| soon so I'd love to use such a page, but I'll dump my data into
| this and if I decide to leave because it has become a rip-off in
| a year or two, I'll still have to go back to some self-hosted
| solution and extract the data from your page somehow.
| kreyenborgi wrote:
| As a dog owner for 15 years I can honestly say I have never felt
| the need to track any of this. I'm curious, why would you need
| to? Do people forget to take their dogs for walks? Most dogs come
| with builtin alarms consisting of wagging, slobbering and pouty
| faces. Mine even runs back and forth between me and the bowl when
| he's hungry, hard to not notice the hint.
| RankingMember wrote:
| I think this kind of app's niche may be in elderly pets, where
| occurrences of vomiting/stool characteristics may be valuable
| when talking to vets and tracking patterns. Otherwise I agree,
| for the average healthy pet it seems to me like _just another
| thing(tm)_ to have to get out your phone for when your hands
| should be busy giving pets /throwing toys.
| Mumps wrote:
| The missus and I would benefit from this -- I even got part way
| into my own Flutter app of similar functionality: she does
| shift work and I have to travel a lot. We're often not at home
| at the same time (or one of us is sleeping).
|
| Things we'd get value from:
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| 1. Has the dog been fed? (am, pm)
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| 2. had his meds?
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| 3. Should I expect to walk him in an hour? I may be lazy, but
| it's cruel to not get _at least_ one walk a day _.
|
| 3b. Long term, are we splitting the effort well? does one
| person walk him WAY more?
|
| 4. Did he not poop on two consecutive walks? do I need to watch
| out for illness?
|
| "Oh, just communicate more, have you ever thought of that? Be
| better spouses" -- this _is* us communicating, to take the best
| care of our dog :)
|
| *he averages 2x 1.5hours per day + 2x 30min training sessions.
| ainka-ainka wrote:
| There's an app called Baby Connect to do same things, but for
| human babies. Among the ones we tried, we liked it the most. It
| includes ability to add another person, and then it syncs data
| with them (the feature i liked most). Perhaps that app might
| serve a good set of inspirations.
|
| I can also imagine creating PDF report between user-given dates
| that people might need when visiting vet, or emailing them.
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