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Poop Scouts – Community Pet Compliance Platform

A pet-first, community-driven app that keeps neighborhoods clean, safe, and fun.

Poop Scouts is a production-ready, city-scale pet compliance & cleanliness platform built with Flutter + Firebase. It lets residents report incidents, track pet violations, coordinate cleanups, broadcast missing-pet alerts, and celebrate responsible pet ownership with leaderboards and social features.

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Community & Cities Maps + Social Flutter + Firebase

Acquisition Snapshot

  • Vertical: Pet compliance, civic engagement
  • Tech: Flutter · Firebase · Google Maps
  • Architecture: Modular · package-based
  • Platforms: iOS · Android

Recommended Asking Range:
$150,000 – $220,000 (USD)

New-build replacement cost for this scope would typically exceed $250k–$350k when starting from scratch.

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What Poop Scouts Solves

Cities and communities want clean, safe public spaces and responsible pet ownership, but enforcement is hard. Poop Scouts helps communities:

  • Turn residents into “scouts” that report incidents with photo/video + GPS.
  • Track repeat violators via a pet compliance system with escalating alerts.
  • Coordinate cleanups and show visible progress over time.
  • Engage pet owners with walk tools, bark map, social feed and leaderboards.
  • Support moderators and city partners with dashboards and analytics.

Ideal Buyers

  • Cities and municipalities exploring smart-city pet compliance.
  • Pet-focused startups (insurtech, food/retail, pet clubs) wanting a flagship community app.
  • Neighborhood associations and HOAs wanting real tools beyond Facebook groups.
  • Environmental & public-health orgs interested in community data and engagement.

The codebase is designed to rebrand and re-theme quickly for new cities, languages, and sponsor partnerships.

Feature Pillars

Every major feature cluster is already built, wired to Firebase, and ready for your branding.

📸 Report & Track Pet Waste

  • Submit photo/video evidence with timestamp & GPS.
  • Optional description, categories and tags.
  • Expandable media viewer with zoom support.
  • Heatmap-ready incident data structure in Firestore.

🧼 Cleanup Verification

  • Moderators mark reports as cleaned, false, or escalated.
  • Mod comments + visible violation count per pet/owner.
  • Real-time flagged report queue & moderation dashboard.
  • Trends via violations-over-time charts (FL Chart).

🧑‍⚖️ Moderator Toolkit

  • Dedicated Moderator Drawer with quick access to:
  • • Flagged Reports Queue
  • • Moderator Dashboard & analytics
  • • User & Pet Report Histories
  • Actions: add mod notes, dismiss, escalate, trend tracking.

🐶 Pet Compliance System

  • Pet registration with photo, name, and breed selector (typeahead).
  • GPS tagging for incidents per pet & owner.
  • Role-based access for owners vs moderators.
  • Violation thresholds: automatic alerts when reaching 3+ incidents.

🚨 SOS & Tracker System

  • Link GPS-enabled collars/tags to pet profiles.
  • Real-time location & geofencing support.
  • “Missing Pet” mode: Amber Alert–style broadcast to nearby users.
  • Community map shows active alerts & last-seen points.

🔔 Bark Alerts & Social Pings

  • Record & broadcast a bark “Ping” to show you’re out walking.
  • Nearby users see live bark markers on the map.
  • Optional push notifications for Pings.
  • Anti-harassment protections: rate limits, mute/ignore controls.

🐾 Pet Walk Tools

  • Walk announcements: public, followers-only, or private.
  • AI-based suggestions for best walk times based on history.
  • Walk Feed where users can browse, start, or join routes.
  • Real-time walk routes and bark events over Google Maps.

📲 Community Feed

  • Post photos, events, and compliance videos.
  • Likes, shares, comments and replies.
  • Flagging system for inappropriate content (mod review).
  • Video uploads with duration overlays and simple viewer.

🏅 Leaderboards & Analytics

  • Top Cleaners, Most Reports Filed, Best Pet Profiles.
  • City / neighborhood breakdowns for local competition.
  • PDF export of “Top Contributors” per month.
  • Admin dashboard hooks for future city reports.

🌐 Multilingual & Onboarding

  • Localized UI for: EN, ES, FR, HI, AR, BN, PT, RU, ZH.
  • First-launch tutorial for language, role, and photo setup.
  • Settings screen with language selector.

🔐 Auth & Roles

  • Firebase Authentication integration.
  • Owners, moderators, and admin roles.
  • Optional anonymous/guest mode with limited features.
  • Ready for city-level or partner-level admin roles.

🔧 Tech Stack

  • Flutter 3.7+ with modular packages.
  • Firebase: Auth, Firestore, Storage, Cloud Functions.
  • Google Maps, clustering, and custom markers.
  • Lottie animations, FL Chart for analytics, Just Audio for bark sounds.

Architecture & Code Quality

  • Production-grade Flutter modular architecture (packages for maps, feed, tracking, etc.).
  • Clean separation of UI, models, services, and Firebase integrations.
  • Ready-to-extend scouters_tracking_package for GPS + BLE trackers.
  • Firestore data model designed for clustering, analytics, and city-level rollouts.
  • Prepared for future additions: ads, subscriptions, sponsor placements, and civic integrations.

What’s Included in Purchase

  • ✅ Flutter source code (main app + related packages).
  • ✅ Firebase project setup and rules (or migration guide).
  • ✅ Assets (logo, icons, images, animations, Lottie).
  • ✅ Environment/configuration templates for dev & prod.
  • ✅ Short handover support window (7 days; extendable).
  • ✅ Optional add-on: help reskinning and launching for your first city.

Monetization & Business Models

  • City / municipality contracts (B2G) for ongoing usage and reporting.
  • Sponsored leaderboards and “Clean Neighborhood” campaigns.
  • Premium features for pet owners (advanced tracking, extra alerts, premium badges).
  • Partnerships with pet brands (food, insurance, retail) for featured spots.

Scaling to Multiple Cities

  • Data model supports multi-city or multi-tenant deployments.
  • Config-driven branding and copy for each city or partner.
  • Ability to run a network of Poop Scouts deployments under your parent brand.

Next step: Talk about acquiring Poop Scouts

Share a bit about your organization, target regions, and how you’d like to use the platform. We’ll respond with a straightforward proposal and options.

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