Dote

Dog owners, that's the app you didn't know you needed. Your dog's territory. Every walk is a conquest. With Dote, your regular walks make your dog the king or the queen of the town.

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Inspiration

If you have a dog, you will love what we want to do. Imagine each walk of your dog to be captured and to form the conquered territory of your best fella. He deserves it, right? You do as well. We wanted so bad to have an app where you can show off how much you walk your dog in a gamified way. Well, we vibe-coded that thing!

What it does

Dote is an interactive, gamified dog walk. Each and every walk with your doggo is being captured to form the territory you've captured today. And it is beautifully visualized on top of your local map, so you can see what you actually own. On top of that, it's social. Compare it with your friends and see whose dog owns the biggest territory. Who knows, your king or queen may earn money for that! The more you conquer, the bigger your empire becomes!

How we built it

Cocktail of AI, mainly Bolt.new, some Supabase and their assistant, some OpenAI Codex, and Cursor.ai, and last but not least, manual code. GitHub madness, some of the hackathons' provided goods and lots of passion.

Challenges we ran into

Debugging mainly. But also building the database and integrating all the stuff. We're still waiting for approval for social logins, Apple developer, AdMob, etc. But we'll get there. Unfortunately, that won't happen before the hackathon ends, but the things work and it looks amazing. We already have a waitlist of 100+ people wanting to start using the app. The idea just makes sense and it is the thing we didn't know we needed.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

  1. An algorithm that tracks where you walk and creates your conquered territory. Real-time. Together with your friends.
  2. Friends module
  3. Stable Supabase database that handles the smoooooth UX
  4. 1 Senior UX designer and a junior back-end dev built a mobile app entirely with zero clue wth we're doing. Amazing!
  5. Super cute and easy-to-use interface.
  6. A gamified way to walk your dog. The concept is a dream-come-true.
  7. Even for a hackathon, User research (competitive analysis + user interviews + user testing) was completely worth it. We learned a lot, pivoted a bit. Understood user needs in advance and captured them on the go. ## What we learned
  8. You can't rely completely on AI. Some stuff just requires manual coding and debugging.
  9. Great ideas are better than "use technology just for the sake of it". JTBD above
  10. Bolt.new works better when you include "shit" in your prompts.
  11. Even for such a project, you need to do some financial calculations and think about a business plan. At some points, you start accumulating expenses, and you know they'll grow unless you do it right. ## What's next for Dote First, publish it to all app stores. Do some marketing activities and try to get a good number of MAU. We'll invest in marketing, probably aim for some Angel/VC investment, so we can get some capital to support it and hire adequate staff who can meet its demand. B2C is not an easy thing, and dog lovers are all around the world.

But after the MVP the plan is to: Estimate the finances so we can put a meaningful subscription which will deduct a certain amount to create awards for leaderboards every month. More social features Conquest mode, where other dog owners can take away your territory by passing over it. Maybe to create a Web3 integration and an NFT set to start building a community. Expand for other type of use cases like cyclists, runners, etc.

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