HACKER Q&A
📣 saadaneil96

Reinventing the Animal Market


Hi everyone,

Wondered what's your take on creating a platform to onboard vetted kennels, creating amazing content on the animals and selling accessories + Food with them.

You can also have features such as buy now-pay later , insurance, vets and more.

Currently building it and would love to have feedback from animal lovers!


  👤 h2odragon Accepted Answer ✓
"Vetted" becomes a problem with on the ground resources.

There's already a large entrenched animal trade industry that has nonprofits with muscles and lawyers and shady networks of "rescues" that generate shocking profits. Then there's the actual "pet trade" which is even shadier, especially when you get into the insurance aspects.

I suggest saving your soul and limiting your involvement to something like a directory, then your responsibility doesn't extend too far.

Edit: There are good animal rescues and even organizations; but they're limited in reach and by the fact they're often staffed with good people who wont act in predatory ways.