What if we used AI to do some good?

Tony — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 09:54:43 +0000

AI is everywhere, helping us write code, build apps, and automate tasks.But it made me wonder:

What if we used AI to build something for charity?

That’s why I started experimenting with PetFinder,a platform to help people find their lost pets and reunite families. I built the first version using AI. It’s not fully tested yet, and there are definitely bugs to fix and real-world scenarios to figure out. But I wanted to share the idea anyway.

AI isn't only about making businesses more efficient or developers more productive.

Maybe we can use it to help people and animals too.

This is just the beginning of PetFinder, but I'd love to see where the idea can go.

From One Prompt to PetFinder

Tony — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 06:07:48 +0000

This post is my submission for DEV Education Track: Build Apps with Google AI Studio.

What I Built

Existing pet lost-and-found groups can move very quickly. Important posts often get buried, making it difficult to keep track of previous records or connect a lost pet with a found one.

This gave me the idea to build PetFinder, an AI-powered lost-and-found pet app that helps identify potential matches between lost and found pets by analyzing their photos and information.

The main prompt I used to get started was:

Build a modern, polished web application called PetFinder — an AI-powered Lost & Found Pets platform that helps people report missing pets and find pets that may have been found by others.

The main features include:

Report Lost Pet
Report Found Pet
Upload pet photos and information
AI-powered potential pet matching
Possible Matches section with explanations
AI-generated Lost Pet / Found Pet posters
Responsive web interface

Demo

Here the fully deployed URL

petfinder.ai.studio

My Experience

Building PetFinder with Google AI Studio showed me that you don’t need to be a coding expert to build an app—you just need to know how to describe what you want.

Instead of writing everything from scratch, I started with a simple idea and let AI Studio generate the initial structure. I also learned that the first prompt doesn’t need to be perfect because the entire process is built on interaction.

I could describe a feature, test the result, and then refine it with follow-up prompts. The clearer I was about the behaviour and changes I wanted, the closer the app got to what I had in mind.

Overall, this track showed me that in AI-assisted development, communicating your requirements clearly is just as important as writing the code itself. A good prompt can turn a simple idea into something much closer to the application you envisioned.

DEV Community: Tony

What if we used AI to do some good?

From One Prompt to PetFinder

What I Built

Demo

My Experience