Where's my Waldo?

Lost your dog? Don't know where to look for them? Our app plays the game of "Where's Waldo" for you, uniting neighbors together in bringing pets home one swipe at a time.

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Inspiration

According to "Bring Jackson Home", 10 million dogs are lost per year. 70% of dogs that go missing are actually within a one-mile radius of their homes. As a dog owner myself, I can understand the pain that other dog owners go through when they lose their loving family member. I wanted to create an app that brings neighbors together in helping their dogs find their homes again.

What it does

Where's Your Waldo is an interactive and community uniting technology which help lost pet owners find their pet. Simply upload a photo and the last known location of your pet. Meanwhile, our community of 'Spotters' can post real-time sightings with photos and locations whenever they spot a lost pet.

Our smart system immediately gets to work, comparing these sightings against your pet’s details. As matches pop up, you swipe through them, right if it’s a maybe, left if it’s not a match. Your responses fine-tune the search process, thanks to our advanced machine learning, making each suggestion more accurate than the last.

How we built it

Using Node.Js, React, Javascript, and Figma, I went through the prototyping, and then created a interactive React web-based framework. I deployed a Google Maps API into sending the current locations of the owners and neighbors that spot their dogs.

Challenges we ran into

A big challenge was getting the Google Maps API to deploy properly into our React framework, but in the end, it all paid off.

What's next for Where's my Waldo?

Towards the future, I hope to deploy a machine learning recognition model onto the matching between the spotters' pictures and the owners' dogs. I also hope to convert from a web to an app-based framework as I had planned to do in the beginning.

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