Justin Radler

Apps, dog training, lifting. Solo dev building a dog training app

Learning to train my dog like a pro and sharing the journey from 0 → 100.

[Justin Radler @JustinRadler]

Just upgraded to Copilot Max 🔥 Only 4 days in and I was already at the limits of Pro...

Is it just me or is anyone else burning through these credits this fast?

[Justin Radler @JustinRadler]

What are you using for your Saas subsciptions and why?

[Justin Radler @JustinRadler]

I made the Anki for dog training.

Any feedback on the design?

[Justin Radler @JustinRadler]

@theamelia___ Heidi

[Justin Radler @JustinRadler]

@MarioNawfal Such a good boy, I hope he has his own paycheck when working so hard 😂

[Justin Radler @JustinRadler]

@Joey_Walker82 Best luck on your journey 💯

[Justin Radler @JustinRadler]

@araseb_ You build exactly the same thing I did?! How did you do that?

[Justin Radler @JustinRadler]

Update to yesterday's post, letting my Australian Sheperd search for his food:

It seems like now he is alwas on the lookout for food in the driveway, even while playing.

Maybe I should do this not quite as often anymore

[Justin Radler @JustinRadler]

One thing I do to tire out my Australian Shepherd puppy:

I make him work for his food. He either
- searches for it or
- trains with it

Searching is great nose work and real mental stimulation for him.

He works for breakfast. I hold the coffee and supervise. ☕

[Justin Radler @JustinRadler]

@WoofWaifu He is gorgeous! Do you use any apps for training him to become a service dog or how does that work?

[Justin Radler @JustinRadler]

Every dog training app I tried had one major flaw.

Your dog does sit 10 times successfully, and afterwards sit gets checked off as completed ✅

But every dog owner knows that two weeks later, your dog won’t give a sh*t about sit unless you stay consistent and keep training.

That's why I'm building an app that never marks a task as completed.

Instead, it takes your actual results - when, where and how you trained - and tells you, based on that, when you'll have to train that task again to reinforce the reliability behind that command.

Curious if others see this too: which command does your dog forget fastest when you stop practicing it?

[Justin Radler @JustinRadler]

Every great app starts the same: spot a real problem, build the fix, ship value for users and yourself.

That's always a win-win.

So I'm building a dog training app that turns any owner into a pro. Stay tuned!