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Features & Design

The thinking behind each feature

Community Discovery

When Pebbles was missing for a year, people in the neighbourhood may have seen her — but nobody knew she was lost. Nobody wrote it down.

Cats cross whole neighbourhoods. The people who see them don't know each other. The cat you've spotted might be the one your neighbour has been quietly looking for all week.

Log a sighting: photo, location, a short note, and it's on the map. Others nearby add their own observations. A cat's record builds up from different people's sightings.

🔍 AI coat analysis

Photos are automatically analysed for coat pattern and colour. Helps match a new sighting to an existing profile.

🏷️ Community tags

Tags like 'friendly', 'shy', 'limping' are voted on by community members. The more people agree, the more reliable the tag.

💬 Comment wall

Leave free-text notes on a cat's profile. 'Saw her near the park exit this morning.' The kind of observation only someone who was there can write.

Lost & Found

Facebook groups are most people's first stop when a cat goes missing. Huge reach, fast sharing. But posts get buried — newer posts push yours down, and after a few days it's hard to find.

A ManekiGo lost report isn't a post — it's a pin on the map. Anyone nearby who opens the app will see it. Not a replacement for Facebook groups, but it adds what posts can't: a location that stays visible.

Lost reports show to all nearby users, not just followers. If someone nearby spots a matching cat and reports a sighting, you'll get notified.

📢 Area-wide alert

The missing banner shows automatically for nearby users when they open the map — not limited to followers.

🤝 Quiet claim

If a cat on the map is yours, you can claim it. If there's a dispute, neither side needs to meet or share personal details to resolve it.

Personal Care Journal

After Pebbles' surgery, the vet said: watch her appetite, her activity, her hydration. I tried. Two days later I couldn't remember if she'd eaten normally or not.

Cats hide discomfort. By the time something looks obviously wrong, it's often been going on for days. Logging meals, activity, and mood makes patterns visible.

Quick Log is one action. Add a status, optionally a photo. Log enough and the platform pulls care suggestions from your actual data.

10-second log

Status, activity, meal — done in seconds.

📈 Weekly trends

Not raw data. The platform looks at 7 days and surfaces what changed — appetite, activity, mood shifts.

🩺 Vet-backed tips

Suggestions come from a veterinary research knowledge base. Triggered by specific patterns in your logs — not generic tips.

Privacy by Design

Sighting records and photos for community cats and lost cats are public. The owner's identity and home cat location and details are kept private.

Owners stay anonymous. Locations show as area names, not exact pins.

📍 Location fuzzing

Sighting coordinates resolve to neighbourhood-level area names. Not exact GPS.

👤 Anonymous ownership

Claim a community cat as yours without anyone knowing it's you. The link exists in the system; it's not displayed.

⚖️ Full GDPR rights

Export all your data as JSON. Delete your account and it's all gone. No dark patterns.

Design principles

Cats don't have accounts. Humans report on their behalf.

A sighting is a starting point. Different people's observations make it credible.

Community cats become less invisible because people record them.

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