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My 'pet' project, a Tinder-esque experience for rescuing dogs and cats

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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!

HN · launched Mar 27, 2026 · 6 upvotes (top 71%) · 0 views

Niche: pet care and tracking apps · 125 launches, 9 in the last 7 days ▼ -44% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Marketplace
  • B2C
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project

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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 : 148 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #145 of 149 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 144 days after the earliest competitor.

  • MeetMyPets · ph · 2026-10-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
  • Petzlover · ph · 2026-10-27 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
  • MyPawPlan.app · ph · 2026-09-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
  • PetLovesYou:Ai Pet Studio · ph · 2026-11-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
  • MyPawBro · ph · 2026-09-18 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.46
  • Pawsies · ph · 2026-09-20 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.44
  • Wagglewhere · ph · 2026-09-17 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
  • Pets Corner · ph · 2026-09-24 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42

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