Wandering Pets

This is our submission for the 3rd Project in SEI-22

What is this app?

Presently, there is no centralised platform for lost and found pets in Singapore. Wandering Pets serves to provide a better lost and found platform for pet owners and users who find pets to communicate.

• Users who find pets need to reach out to a large audience to broadcast the details on the pet that he or she found.

• Owners who lose their pets need a way to share their contact details.

• Organisations that specialise in pet rescue need a way to find owners who might've lost a pet or advertise unwanted pets to new owners

Couldn't you use Facebook or other means?

Yes, there are existing social websites that allow users to posts their pets, while we believe we can make something better.

Usability

Facebook has multiple groups where users make posts. This isn’t a great user interface and often has too many posts on the page where matching the lost pet and the owner becomes difficult.

While posts can reach a wide audience at a short amount of time, it cannot be easily searched when buried under other posts.

As an owner who lost a pet, there is no easy way to search for specific breed or color of the pet you lost.

Privacy

Cons to creating a post is that it is tied to your personal account which you may not want to share your exotic pets to others.

Other users

Usually when a non-pet lover sees a collared animal wandering outside, he/she might just carry on their own way and that could've been a potential rescuer and time could be saved.

What we want to achieve

• To make creating a post to be fast and concise
• Posts to contain more relevant information such as contact details, pet description, pet photo, location details
• A better user interface to incentivise users who find pets to use the platform.
• The ability to filter posts by animal type or color

Pre-project

• Userstories
• Userflow
• Wireframes
• ERB

Challenges

It was a first for all of us to collaborate through git on a project, we had a dangerous start where we were all commiting the master branch while avoiding

Working on RubyonRails was a challenge for all of us, especially the way how the MVCs are connected together.

Built With

• RubyonRails - Application Framework
• Cloudinary - To save and display pet images (you would need to sign up an account)

Made by

• Yannie
• Ari
• Shane

Acknowledgments

• We want to thank our instructors Akira, Ben, Jessica and Stuart, for their help