A home for the Frenchie parent in me.
FRNCHY is a native community and care app for French bulldog parents. I designed and built every part of it myself.
- Community
- Care education
- Health journal
- Heat safety
- Behavior observations
- Illustrated portraits
- Private messaging
- Native iOS app
- Coming soon to the App Store
Luna
Athena
Park dayI am in this community.
I love the French bulldog community, and I am part of it. Athena and Luna are my two Frenchie kids, and they are the reason FRNCHY exists.
I recognized the people around me: they join groups, post and share, and obsess over their dogs exactly as I do. The in-app community, sharing, connection, and private messaging bring those behaviors into one place.
That revealed the product opportunity: the joy of sharing lives in one place, while everyday care lives somewhere else. I wanted a home for both—the silly moments we cannot stop posting and the practical information we need before a walk or a vet visit.
The brand has a childlike charm because Frenchies are sweet, cute, funny, silly and mischievous, and they share a lot with human children. The charm stops where health information starts: that content stays clear and professional.
Playful on the surface. Careful where it counts.
Breed-specific utility.
I owned product strategy, branding, interface design, native engineering and AI integration. This is a working native product—not a click-through prototype handed to someone else to build.
Care education and health journal
Education on breed health issues, a journal for tracking, and reminders surfaced in a notification center.
Heat safety
Local weather context with a manual fallback. Awareness, not a diagnosis or guarantee. Seek a veterinarian for distress.
Cue observations
Upload video and read visible behavior observations. Interpretation of cues, not translation.
Personalized portraits
A profile photo and details become a downloadable illustration.
Your Frenchie has a family.
Now they have a community.
hello, friendBecause life with a Frenchie
is better together.
Athena barks.
Luna snorts.
The welcome experience introduces the personalities behind the product. Expressive illustrations, gentle motion and the familiar sounds of a Frenchie make the brand feel like a family, not a generic pet utility.
The same personality continues through rounded type, soft colors and illustrated details. For care and weather, I pair that warmth with direct language and clear next steps. Delight should help someone feel at home; it should never obscure what matters.
Rendered welcome visualization using original FRNCHY artwork. Not a native screen capture.
From everyday joy
to everyday care.
Weather context before the walk
Short snouts make Frenchies overheat easily, and heatstroke can be fatal. This flow gives context, not a diagnosis.
Heat Safety Alert
Share the silly stuff.
Community is the reason FRNCHY exists: a Frenchie Family feed with stories, a composer for a new moment, and private messages between families. Four views, shown together.
Frenchie Family
Frenchie Family
Frenchie Family
Messages
Rendered reconstructions of FRNCHY’s native screens using illustrative content and original artwork. Not native screen captures or recordings.
Sweet, rounded, warm.
The palette comes straight from the published code. Nunito in regular, semibold, bold and heavy keeps everything soft and legible.
Native, with AI behind an API.
I connected the native experience to persistent data and API-mediated AI. Supabase authentication and PostgreSQL data services support signed-in families, community content, messages and care entries. A generated client and React Query hooks connect the screens to purpose-specific AI endpoints.
The interesting engineering work is not just calling a model. It is handling photo and video selection, pending requests, useful error states, account-bound data, location permissions and stale weather readings—and presenting the result in language a Frenchie parent can act on.
- Native appReact Native + Expo SDK 57
- LanguagesTypeScript / JavaScript
- NavigationExpo Router
- Auth and databaseSupabase / PostgreSQL
- Server stateReact Query + generated client
- Photo and videoexpo-image-picker
- Weather and locationexpo-location / Open-Meteo
- Soundexpo-audio
/api/frenchie/interpretVideo in, visible-cue observations out./api/frenchie/avatarPhoto and details in, illustration out.Where it could grow.
These are business possibilities I have considered, not live commerce or verified results.
Social sharing
Portraits and moments designed to travel beyond the app.
Partnerships
Breed-aware brands and care professionals.
A shop
Branded goods, informed by the gear artwork already in the brand.
What this demonstrates.
Product strategy rooted in lived community knowledge. A distinct brand carried into native UI. Responsible framing of health and AI features. Real native engineering with a typed client and clear data separation. All of it by one person, from idea to an app arriving soon on the App Store.