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Build a self-hosted dog care tracker for a sitter with Claude

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Dave Fatkin built EinVault, a self-hosted dog care tracker with sitter shifts and health logs, leaning on Claude for the frontend.

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I'm building a self-hosted pet care tracker in SvelteKit with SQLite and Drizzle. I've written the component structure and logic; help me implement the Tailwind frontend for the journal, activity log, health log and reminders, plus a caretaker view where a sitter can only log during a scheduled shift.

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Goal: Give a pet sitter one place to see the routine and log what happened during each visit.

Questions to ask me first:
- Which routines matter most (meals, meds, walks, flea treatment)?
- Should the sitter see vet history or only today's tasks?
- Do you want reminders by email, phone or in the app?

Inputs (fill in or confirm):
- Pet profile: [NAME / MEALS / MEDS / VET]
- Sitter schedule: [DAYS / TIMES]
- Existing app code: [REPO]
- Hosting: [HOME SERVER / OTHER]

Rules:
- The sitter can only log during a scheduled shift.
- Keep health records separate from daily notes.
- Match my existing components; don't restructure the logic.
- Make every form usable on a phone.

Checkpoint: Show the sitter's view and one completed log entry before building the owner views.

If you get stuck: If a layout fights the CSS framework, propose a simpler layout instead of piling on overrides.

Verify before you finish: Log a test shift as the sitter and confirm the owner sees it with the right time stamp.

Output: Working pages plus a short list of known rough edges.

Done when: My sitter can log a visit and I can read it when I get home.

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Outcome

Dave Fatkin needed a better way to share a dog's feeding schedule, medications, vet visits and flea treatment with a new dog sitter than a static info page. Over a few weeks of evenings, Fatkin built EinVault, a self-hosted pet care tracker (SvelteKit, SQLite, Drizzle) with a journal, activity log, a health log for vet visits, vaccinations, medications and weight, recurring reminders, and a caretaker role that lets the sitter log only during scheduled shifts. Fatkin leaned on Claude heavily for the Tailwind and frontend implementation while writing the component structure and logic. Fatkin calls it a side project with rough edges, but it does the job: Ein's health log and timestamped vet visits are in it, and the sitter leaves daily notes. A post on r/selfhosted got no response.

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by Dave Fatkin (The Dave Abides)
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https://fatkin.dev/ein-made-me-do-it/

Context: Claude helped mainly with the frontend; the author wrote the structure and logic. Open-source side project, not a veterinary records system.

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