My progress in training dogs to vibe code B2B SaaS apps

Public demo of live video tracking dog (extremely slow for the public as it costs me): Right Here
Do you run a kennel or dog daycare service? Or have a reason you would want to be part of this? Dogomation is actively being trialed: Contact Me
"Dog gone it"
  1. Mechanical Bark Begins
  2. V0: Dog Gaze Detection
  3. V1: Dogs Play Games
  4. Paul Graham messages me
  5. V2: Dog Buys its own food
  6. V3: Dog Trick Gesture Detection
  7. V4: Dog Uses Dogtok
  8. V5: Dog Customer Support (in progress)
  9. Why not cats?

Mechanical Bark Begins

Mechanical Bark is building out a "neural petwork" of dog labour(dor) for minimum wags.
The goal is simple: Get them to work like a dog.
I will start by seeing if we can track their input and gestures and slowly increase their input until they can book my flights, file my taxes, everything to earn their keep.
All this is possible because 5 years ago a team at Stanford carefully annotated all the different parts of 20,000 pictures of dogs of a variety of breeds and made it public.
As AI image and video analyzing has gotten better this data has become more useful for tracking dogs in live video.
There are now a variety of libraries that can use this dataset such as MMPose, DeepLabCut, and Ultralytics. In typical research fashion they all have amazing tech that is extremely difficult for regular people to actually use and play with.
On the internet nobody knows if you are a dog. Dogomation will change that.

V0: Dog Gaze Detection

Detect where a dog is looking on the screen with by their head orientation with an average webcam in a variety of lighting.

V1: Dogs Play Games

Use the head and gaze tracking of dogs to control games. Test if a dog can learn how to win games on a screen.

Paul Graham messages me

Paul Graham starts to notice my work and directly requests I take the project to the next level.
Or at least I assume it meant was for me.

V2: Dog Buys its own food

Have a dog push buttons on a computer on command.

V3: Dog Trick Gesture Detection

Someone asked me if I could remotely train their dog while he went to work.
Detect when a dog does the most common tricks: Sit, Stand, Shake, Roll over, Twirl

V4: Dog Uses Dogtok

Test if a dog can entertain itself with Tiktok.

V5: Dog Customer Support (in progress)

Seeking a social dog. High intelligence. May need a border collie. Not all dogs are meant for all tasks. Maybe smarter ones can do more complex useful tasks and others can trained to do something in crypto.

Why not cats?

Unlike Stanford dogs, the cat researchers are quite finnicky to deal with. Catty even.
I reached out to the authors of all cat face and body related researchers.
The CatFLW demanded to know what I wanted to do with the research before sharing their dataset and did not find my story worthy enough.
Meanwhile CatFACS was super open with their data but its all hosted on a very old website that has to be manually read before they send it to you. It took a week but I did get their data at least.
Because their data is public many apps have come out to freely help you determine if you cat is in pain. The public has benefitted from the sharing of this data.
I think we can go beyond checking if they are in pain and into forms of communication and letting them make products and organize our lives too.
If you want to collaborate or continue with cat research: here are all the papers I have found so far