Pets in Pictures

8/12/2019 Pets in Pictures

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Pets in Pictures, PIP!Submitted to the Palo Alto Hackathon before

2/28/14 5pm PST by @PAHomelessDogs

Contact email: [email protected] | phone: 650 215-8406

In green is from the Hackathon submission page.

In black is what we wrote.Now, tell us about your awesome app idea...

Provide a short and snappy idea name. * For example: "Click and Fix" or "City Voice"

Pets in Pictures, PIP!

Describe your idea here * Tell us specifically what it will do and what problem it will solve. This is the most important area. Be sureto be clear and detailed.

Pets in Pictures, (PIP), allows users to scale and composite images of Palo Alto Animal Services shelteradoptable pets onto images of their choice., They may be pictures downloaded from media sharing sites to theirmobile device, or their own stored on or taken by that device. The combined image plus a message is thenshared through various social media and other channels.

PIP allows images and descriptions to assist the community in communicating to friends and followersinformation on pets waiting to be adopted and loved at the Palo Alto Animal Services shelter. The pets humanreward: unconditional love and companionship.

Tell us why you think this is an original idea. * For example: Describe why you believe you are solving a problem in a unique manner.

By allowing animal lovers to engage, emotionally invest, and contribute to the well-being of animals and thehappiness of their friends by selecting images, working to put them together, then sharing with their friends, wesolve the problem of getting the word (and image), out about adoptable animals in a compelling visual, textual,social, and fun manner.

Sociable photosharing, and concern for animals, are not unique by any means, but this app cleverly weaves the

two threads together into the social media fabric our residents are continuously creating and sharing.

Muttbombing has been an inspiration for our app because of its proven success rate and outreach. Muttbombingincreased adoptable animal page views by 700% for a dog rescue organization in Dallas.

One of our team members takes outstanding pictures with a quick turnaround. A picture is worth a thousandwords but it has to be the right picture, one that inspires and excites t he viewer into action. That picture cansave a sheltered pets life and give it the second chance it deserves.


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Notes:

How Single Photographs Are Saving The Lives Of Shelter Animals Across The Country http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/21/one-picture-saves-a-life_n_4810738.html

Muttbombing:

o This Animal Rescue Program Drops An Adoptable Dog In Your Selfiehttp://t.co/lk3XZTaTY1

o Muttbombing http://muttbombing.com

o We have a meeting scheduled first week of March with the advertising team at Dieste dieste.com inDallas that created and run the Muttbombing site for Dallas Pets Alive

http://dieste.com/Content.aspx?Id=1092

If your idea will require data, tell us what type of data. For example: City demographics, permit information, event listings etc. Leave this item blank if youdon't know or it's not relevant to your idea.

We need to have physical access to the animals so that we can take compelling photos. The photos that theshelter currently displays are not high enough quality. One of our team members is an outstanding pet

photographer. We can also line up additional pet photographers to work on a rotating basis. NOTE: We willneed the shelter to be cooperative in allowing our photographers access to the animals. When our photographerapplied to become a vol unteer photographer she was told it would be 1 -2 years before she could beconsidered.

We can pull the rest of the adoptable pets information from the shelter database (in Chameleon Beach), so wewill need access to that dataset.

Finally, some important miscellaneous items...

If you are selected as a finalist, tell us how you will go about creating a prototype *For example: Will you write the code yourself? Do you have access to developers?

We are a team of people with a variety of skills including project management, cloud/web product management, business analysis, photography, design, social media, animal welfare, and marketing.

One is a very experienced developer currently focused on Android apps, another currently works as a softwareengineering manager (but not as a developer) in a startup. As finalists we may reach out to other developersthrough the open source community for additional programming support as appropriate.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/21/one-picture-saves-a-life_n_4810738.htmlhttp://t.co/lk3XZTaTY1http://muttbombing.com/http://muttbombing.com/http://muttbombing.com/http://www.dieste.com/http://www.dieste.com/http://www.dieste.com/http://www.dieste.com/http://muttbombing.com/http://t.co/lk3XZTaTY1http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/21/one-picture-saves-a-life_n_4810738.html


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We know many techies (including ourselves of course!) are animal lovers. We can bring in a few more people ifneeded.

Anything else? Use this space to include anything additional that you would like to share with the judges or competitionadministrators

We are continuing to gather information about the shelter operations and use it to refine our thinking and app proposal(s). We appreciate OpenGov/OpenData means we have access to important documents/data about theshelter such as license compliance, revenue sources and amounts, euthanasia rates and reasons, etc.

This link is to a document folder on Dropboxhttps://www.dropbox.com/sh/wcfxdydvnflqqh6/cPFq9APuc2where we have placed the information that we have. We are eager to increase our knowledge of PAASoperations, financials, etc. so that we can work together to have better successful outcomes for our homelesscompanion animals.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/wcfxdydvnflqqh6/cPFq9APuc2https://www.dropbox.com/sh/wcfxdydvnflqqh6/cPFq9APuc2

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