Dog-e-dex lets you upload or take pictures of good pups you see and save them into your personal collection. Add each dog's name and a note when you save them, and try to collect all the dog breeds!
Hello!! I'm a product designer based in the Bay Area who has always loved dogs. However, I have two angry cats so I must love dogs from afar. I've had the idea for Dog-e-dex for years, but never knew how to bring it to life since I don't have technical chops. I looked into hiring engineers, but wasn't sure how to, until AI came on the scene.
Dog-e-dex is built purely by prompting using Anthropic's Claude. I have learned a lot through this process (I had no idea what a backend really was until now), but think engineering and design jobs are safe for now :). It's still quite challenging to prompt design details and I'm sure the code is a nightmare for someone to review, but it *works*!!! Can you believe it?! I can't!!
I have a bunch of ideas on future features to build, including badges, "shinies", and more! The question is, will I break the app in the pursuit of these new features? Only time will tell.
I'm kind of scared to get roasted or hacked (pls don't hack me I barely know what an API key is) but I think it's amazing what we can do with AI tools now! Try it out and let me know if it falls apart. If it all crashes or I owe a million dollars for Google Vision API calls then, well, there goes my app building career. Thanks ok bye.
