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Pet Buddha

Turning the advice I give in person into a plan any dog parent can act on today

It started as a reply I kept typing to new pet parents. I designed and built it end to end with AI, and it's live.

Type
Personal project
Status
Live, in user testing
Role
Design and build
Platforms
Web, phone and desktop
Overview

It always starts with a message

I'd answer one dog at a time. Pet Buddha answers everyone else.

The product

Eight questions. One plan, sized for their dog.

Pick a screen, or let it play.

Pet Buddha's landing page: a meditating beagle and a button to personalise a plan
The problem

The dogs were loved. The bowls looked like this.

Roti and milk
Curd rice
Rice and dal

Usually missing: protein, calcium, omega-3, zinc and vitamin D.

Good pet-care advice hasn't travelled far beyond a few big cities. The dogs survive. They don't thrive.

Could my reply reach people who'll never message me?

Key decisions

Ask what I'd ask. Nothing more.

1

If an answer doesn't change the plan, don't ask

AI suggested three more questions. None made the cut.

2

Food first, from tonight's bowl

The riskiest advice to get wrong, but every question led back to it. So it fixes the bowl one step at a time.

3

Written for an Indian kitchen

Grams of cooked food, and recipes for a pressure cooker: one whistle.

How it came together

A team of one, with AI in the other seats

Claude and ChatGPT to think, a living spec in Claude Docs, flows in Figma, illustrations with Nano Banana. Claude Code built it, on Vercel, Supabase and Google Cloud.

59times I typed “publish”. Nothing went live without it.

The nutrition underneath is mine, checked against USDA and AAFCO figures.

What's next

Then real people used it

On a short phone, one tester couldn't reach Continue. The questions now stack and scroll, and every screen is checked for tap and text sizes.

The test now: can a first-time owner say what they'll change tomorrow, and why? Next come vet visits, vaccines, grooming and cats.

thanks for reading. now go weigh my dinner.
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