Scritch

Hi Product Hunt! I'm excited to share a nearly version of Scritch with you. This is a project that comes from a place of love; I grew up with dogs, have loved and lost them - they're a huge part of my life. And like practically every dog owner, my phone contains nearly 2,000 photos and videos of my dog, that I absolutely refuse to delete. Search through the socials, and you'll find owners deleting photos of their wedding or happily upgrading their phone, rather than delete a single memory of their best friend. So how do we make the most of those photos and videos? I answer is Scritch; we create an AI model of a pet using the owner's media. The digital version can live across devices, in photo frames, even as a hologram on a bookshelf. It can respond to commands, or live its own life - sleeping, playing and so on. Feedback so far has been deeply polarising - from people emailing to pay me yesterday for it, to others insisting it "makes me want to vomit" or scolding me for not consulting psychiatrists. I understand that final comment, especially where AI may be used to memorialise a pet that's passed, but there's a lot to dig into, and it's a topic requiring a deeper sense of perspective and more than a kneejerk reaction. It's early days, but keen to present Scritch to the Product Hunt community!

Love the hologram idea! This has to be one of the cutest use cases of AI I've seen so far. I love that the background/context could show me my dog back his favourite places, like playing on the beach, if it was possible to load a custom background 'scene' in? Excited to see where this goes!