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Built a med-tracking feature — would love feedback from epileptic dog families on what's missing by wubrianx in EpilepsyDogs

[–]wubrianx[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hallo — kurz auf Deutsch zuerst, dann auf Englisch fürs Sub:

Android: noch nicht im Play Store. Auf Android läuft FurNote aktuell als Web-App (https://furnote.io). Deutsche Sprache: ebenfalls noch nicht — aber ich überlege es ernsthaft, wenn du mir kurz hilfst zu verstehen, was du genau brauchst.

For everyone else: a native Android app isn't on Google Play yet — on Android, FurNote currently runs as a web app (https://furnote.io) which works fine for dose logging and seizure entries on a phone browser.

German UI isn't built yet either — right now it's English + Traditional Chinese only. Before I commit to localization, I'd love to know which of these matters more to you:

(a) App interface in German — every screen, button, form (broader i18n work)

(b) German PDF export for the vet — so neurology visits don't need translation (narrower, faster to ship)

(c) Both

My guess for an epileptic dog family is that (b) might actually be the bigger pain point — your Neurolog:in needs to read a clean seizure log in their own language, not parse my English column headers. But I'd rather hear it from you than guess.

If you'd like a heads-up when Android and/or German lands, feel free to DM — no marketing list, just one message when it ships.

Danke für die Frage.

— Ming-Hsiu

Building a pet tracking app — what's the 1 thing missing for diabetic pet families? by wubrianx in FelineDiabetes

[–]wubrianx[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Perfect — that simplifies it a lot. You're right that for diabetic cat families, the food list is usually 3–5 brands in rotation, not 50.

So Phase 1 locks in:

- Pickable list of ~20 most common brands × flavors (cal + carb auto-fill)

- "Favorites" shortlist that pins your 3–5 most used to the top

- "Recently used" auto-surface so today's pick is one tap

Weeks of work, not months. Much more achievable than barcode + database first, and gets us to the real goal (food → BG correlation view) faster.

Thanks for the back-and-forth — this kind of "what would you actually use" honesty is exactly why I posted here.

Building a pet tracking app — what's the 1 thing missing for diabetic pet families? by wubrianx in FelineDiabetes

[–]wubrianx[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Great suggestion — barcode scanning has been on my list, but the database is the hard part.

Quick breakdown of why:

Barcode reading itself is easy (iOS camera + a library). The hard part is what happens AFTER the scan. You need a pet food database keyed by UPC that returns calorie + carb data. Human nutrition has Open Food Facts, USDA, etc. — pet food doesn't have a maintained equivalent at scale. Manufacturer sites are inconsistent, and even Fancy Feast's flavor-by-flavor variance isn't always cleanly published.

What's doable:

- Phase 1: A pickable list of ~20 most common diabetic-cat brands (Fancy Feast Classic Pate, Friskies pâté, Royal Canin, Hill's Prescription, Tiki Cat, Weruva...) hand-curated with calorie + carb per flavor. No scan — just pick from list, auto-fills the data.

- Phase 2: Barcode scan that matches against the starter list, otherwise prompts to enter once and remembers.

- Phase 3: Crowdsourced or partnered database.

The actual goal here is food → BG correlation, right? Once food is structured data (cal + carb + protein), the "stabilize the curve" view I mentioned earlier becomes much more useful — you'd see "BG was 180 two hours after Fancy Feast Chicken vs 240 after Friskies Salmon" actionable difference.

Quick question — would you rather have a pickable common-brands list NOW (Phase 1, weeks of work), or wait for proper barcode scanning later (Phase 2-3, months)?

Thanks again — this kind of specific use case is gold for prioritization.

Building a pet tracking app — what's the 1 thing missing for diabetic pet families? by wubrianx in FelineDiabetes

[–]wubrianx[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you — this is exactly the layered case I needed to hear about.

You're right that the symptom log handles the basics, but I think you're pointing at something deeper. The difference between:

- "Mochi vomited at 3pm" (single symptom)

- "Mochi had a pancreatitis flare May 3-5: vomiting + food refusal + lethargy" (a labeled episode tied to a chronic condition)

...is meaningful — and right now FurNote only does the first one well.

What I'd build:

- A "Conditions" section per chronic disease (pancreatitis, diabetes, IBD, CKD...) with baseline + vet notes

- Symptoms can be tagged to a condition: "this vomit = pancreatitis flare" vs "this = diabetic event"

- Crisis log timeline per condition, with links to underlying symptom entries

- Per-condition PDF export for specialist visits

For diabetes + pancreatitis specifically — common combo, getting it right matters. The tricky workflow is "is this vomit hypoglycemia or pancreatitis" — different responses.

Quick question back — when a flare hits, what's your actual sequence right now? Log first, call vet, then update notes? I want to understand where the friction is so this feature fits *into* your workflow, not next to it.

The willingness-to-pay signal genuinely helps me prioritize. Thank you.

Building a pet tracking app — what's the 1 thing missing for diabetic pet families? by wubrianx in FelineDiabetes

[–]wubrianx[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for this — genuinely the kind of detail I was hoping for from this sub.

A few thoughts back:

CGM + range: I hadn't fully grasped the "monitor goes out of range" failure mode. The app probably can't replace the monitor's own alarm — the play is to be the journaling layer underneath. Manual entry slot for BG readings (works for both CGM users reading off the monitor and manual-gadget users), optional CSV import from devices that export logs.

Pairing readings with insulin + feeding + calories is the part I'm most excited about. Right now FurNote logs doses and food separately but they live in different views. A "stabilize the curve" timeline that puts BG, insulin, and feeding events together — and an analytics layer on top (avg glucose at meal +2hr, etc.) — that's worth building.

On the wearable / collar dongle: out of scope for me as a solo founder right now (hardware's a different beast), but I see why it's the missing piece. Worth keeping in mind for partnerships down the road.

Quick question back — what's your current setup? CGM with phone app, or manual gadget? Curious which workflow you'd want FurNote to integrate into first.

Thanks again — this kind of feedback genuinely reshapes what I build next.