Sighting - A lost and found board for pets, no account.
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Post a missing pet or one you found, with a photo and where it was last seen, and everyone nearby sees it. No signup: posting gives you a private link to edit or mark it found. Web, iOS, Android, Mac and Windows. Free.
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Hi, I'm Josh, I built Sighting.
When a pet goes missing, people post in Facebook groups and on Craigslist. Both want an account, and neither lets you search by where or by species. Those are the minutes that matter most, and a person who just lost their dog is not going to sign up for anything.
So Sighting has no accounts at all. You post a lost or found animal with a photo and a spot on the map, and you get back a private link. Whoever holds that link can edit the post or mark it found, and nobody else can. It's the same trick Craigslist uses, with the check done on the server so a guessed post id can't be changed.
Found pets are marked, not deleted, because the happy ending is the useful half of the record.
It runs on the web, with native apps for iPhone, Android, Mac and Windows from one shared codebase. Free, open source, no tracking.
If you've ever stapled a poster to a pole, I'd love to hear what would have helped.