Lots of strays where I live, so I wanted an app to photograph and identify street cats and help get them adopted. Written mostly with Claude.
The recognition runs on device: Apple Vision detects the cat, DINOv2-Small decides whether it's one already in your library, SigLIP2 names the coat.
No accounts and no backend. There's a trading mechanic on top where you can trade cards via Wi-Fi (with Bluetooth as a fallback) and levels for both the user and each cat.
You can also turn any cat into a shareable adoption poster.
Nice goal that your are pursuing with your website but, just in case, are you aware of the rules about .cat domains?
"You do not need to be Catalan to have a .cat; the only requirement is that the website associated with your domain has meaningful content in Catalan or promotes the Catalan language or culture.
The .cat is a domain open to anyone wishing to be part of the Catalan digital community."
"Having a .cat domain is the first step, but to publish your website you need to take four key elements into account:
Content: you need to have your website content ready (text, images, videos). Remember that, in order to comply with the .cat Domain Registration Regulations, the website must have meaningful content in Catalan."
I took inspiration from Pokémon Go, Monster Hunter Now, and even Fatal Frame (lol).
For example: You need five distinct photos of a cat before the app will guess its age, which is also just what the model needs, since age settles at about five samples. You get XP for finding new cats, and also for shooting from a distance: the score rises with how far back you stood, so using the 3× is the legitimate way to earn it and walking up to the animal isn't.
Card designs unlock per cat, as your relationship with it deepens and there are five card designs across five cat levels.
Trading exchanges cards, not cats as the animals never leave your collection. Because a card carries the fingerprint of the photo on it, it doubles as a treasure map: find that cat in the wild yourself and the app tells you it's the one from the person you traded with.
Didn't want to overcomplicate it (it's a side-project), so there's no server and no global fingerprint registry which means no race to find a cat first. It's built around building a relationship with the cats, and hopefully finding them a forever home.
Lots of strays where I live, so I wanted an app to photograph and identify street cats and help get them adopted. Written mostly with Claude.
The recognition runs on device: Apple Vision detects the cat, DINOv2-Small decides whether it's one already in your library, SigLIP2 names the coat.
No accounts and no backend. There's a trading mechanic on top where you can trade cards via Wi-Fi (with Bluetooth as a fallback) and levels for both the user and each cat.
You can also turn any cat into a shareable adoption poster.
TestFlight is open, so feel free to try it.