Show HN: SpotKat – a free cat register with a lost-cat network

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Apps will work only in Benelux for now (launching everywhere soon) Website is also contains a lot of useful information about cats.

I build this as we lost our cat and the only people who were helping were our neighbours. Posters work, but barely, while chats/facebook worked the best. The only problem was sharing the reports. I thought that making an app could help and we actually got some sightings of similar cats from other neighbours. This is much more convinient than adding someone as a contact and sending them a WA message.

It would probably not fit the name, but having dogs for that would be really valuable too. Also showing the stats on how many reports / found / missed cats would be helpful for building trust. Good luck with this project!

Thanks! Dogs are gladly not lost as much and much easier to find. I checked, that here in the Netherlands people (report only) loose around 40 cats a day, while with dogs its at best is 1.

We are also building a "care" package to remind of medication / vaccination and general assistant help. Maybe this product would be interesting for dog owners too tbh

Yeah, that makes sense. The "care" package also sounds very good, do you plan to expand to other countries beyond NL? I used to live in Spain and people own a lot of dogs there, so I think both websites will be quite useful there

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