My 'pet' project, a Tinder-esque experience for rescuing dogs and cats
Details
- External ID
- 47537866
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- My 'pet' project, a Tinder-esque experience for rescuing dogs and cats
- Website domain
- benswork.space
- Launched
- March 27, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 6
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.2853628536285363
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
I have a rescue dog - a 6 year old German Shepherd mix. When we rescued him I couldn't believe how many animals there were at all the shelters and animal control centers, and how hard it was to find out about them.I built a simple site (https://rescueapet.benswork.space) which connects you with available dogs and cats in your area :-) It uses data from local shelters and pulls it all into one place, so you can make a shortlist of animals, then reach out to the shelter to adopt.I was honestly surprised that something like this didn't already exist. Let me know what you think!
Enrichment
- Theme
- pet tech and virtual companions
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Marketplace
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- matching app for pet adoption
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is a straightforward swipeable card UI (Tinder clone) consuming public shelter animal APIs (like Petfinder) with standard filtering and responsive design.
Discussion
4 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Shelter management APIs (PetFBI, Petango, etc.)
Concerns raised: Need shelter promotion/partnerships to reach adopters, Sourcing reliable shelter data at scale
Feature requests: Mark/save profiles and review marked profiles later, Restart and go back navigation, Notify shelters about the platform
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 55 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #52 of 56 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 144 days after the earliest competitor.
- MyPawPlan.app · ph · 2026-09-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- MyPawBro · ph · 2026-09-18 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Pawsies · ph · 2026-09-20 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Wagglewhere · ph · 2026-09-17 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Pets Corner · ph · 2026-09-24 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Solo Cat · ph · 2026-09-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- PatitasMap · ph · 2026-09-17 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- MyPet · ph · 2026-09-25 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.38
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.