Wildex
Pokémon Go for real wildlife
Details
- External ID
- 47040390
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Wildex
- Website domain
- apple.com
- Launched
- Feb. 16, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 106
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8962264150943396
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
Dear HN,My wife and I both love nature and have always wanted a Pokémon go style app, to collect and learn about different species we find.All the usual species identifying apps were didn’t feel fun enough, so we designed and built one together!Would love for you guys to give it a try and share any thoughts you have.
Enrichment
- Theme
- hobby collectibles and gaming tools
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- —
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- pokemon go for real wildlife
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes The app is a mobile client combining a standard vision AI API for species recognition with gamification mechanics (cards, XP, and leaderboards) that can be easily implemented with modern app frameworks and Supabase.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Merlin (bird identification app), iNaturalist, Seek by iNaturalist, eBird
Concerns raised: Location data enables poaching of endangered animals, Encourages dangerous visitor behavior in wildlife parks, Unreliable species identification compared to expert review, Global leaderboard incentivizes reckless behavior and trampling ecosystems, Overlaps significantly with existing Seek app
Feature requests: Top trumps-style stat system for species comparison, Mini-games to showcase and use rare finds, Replace global leaderboard with friends/contacts-only leaderboard, Focus on common local wildlife instead of endangered species
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 33 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #3 of 34 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 43 days after the earliest competitor.
- NationalDex • minimal open-source Pokédex · hn · 2026-09-04 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Snappit · ph · 2026-09-18 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Retrodex · hn · 2026-05-04 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- SM'S DEX · ph · 2026-09-15 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Build offline-first web apps in pure Go and HTML · hn · 2026-07-05 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Clawemon, A Pokemon-style MMO for your agents · hn · 2026-04-21 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Pokopedia · ph · 2026-09-27 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- PokeIndie · ph · 2026-09-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.38
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.