Medication board for rescue foster homes

The idea

A foster home mid-kitten-season is running antibiotics for one animal, a heartworm taper for another, and eye drops twice daily for a third, tracked on a whiteboard or the back of an intake form. Animals also move between foster homes constantly, and the med history moves as a verbal handoff in a car park. Missed doses mean extended treatment the rescue pays for from donations, and in bad cases a delayed adoption or a dead animal.

The wedge is modelling the thing consumer pet apps never do: the animal, not the owner, is the unit, and the animal transfers. Schedules and dose history travel with the animal to the next foster home intact, the new foster sees the last 48 hours at a glance, and the coordinator finally has one screen showing compliance across every home instead of chasing texts.

Who pays

The rescue organisation, GBP 12 a month flat, paid by the coordinator who currently absorbs every missed-dose crisis personally. Rescues run tight budgets but this prices below one vet recheck and sells as protecting the medical spend they already make. Distribution: rescue coordinators are densely networked in regional Facebook groups and national conferences; a handful of respected rescues using it publicly seeds a region. Volunteer fosters never pay and never need accounts beyond a phone number.

MVP scope

• Org setup with coordinator and foster roles, phone-number invites
• Animal profiles with med schedules including tapers and every-other-day dosing
• Foster daily checklist with timestamped dose logging
• Animal transfer that carries schedule and dose history to the new home
• Twilio SMS dose reminders with reply-to-log, missed-dose flags on the coordinator dashboard
• Skip for v1: adoption listings, vet appointment booking, expense tracking, and multi-org foster accounts

Build FosterMeds, a web app for animal rescues to manage medication schedules across their foster homes. Stack: Next.js (App Router), Supabase (Postgres + magic-link auth), Twilio for SMS.

Core flow: a rescue coordinator creates the org, adds foster volunteers by phone number, and creates animal profiles (name, species, photo, intake date, vet notes). Each animal gets a med schedule: drug, dose, frequency (including every-other-day and tapering courses), start/end dates, and food requirements. The animal is assigned to a foster home; the current foster sees a daily checklist and taps each dose off, which stores a timestamp and who logged it.

Pages: coordinator dashboard (all animals, current foster, compliance status with missed-dose flags in red), animal profile with med schedule editor and full dose history, foster home view (today's checklist across all their animals), and org settings.

Implementation details: the transfer is the differentiating feature — reassigning an animal to a new foster home moves the live schedule and complete dose history with it, and the new foster's first screen shows the last 48 hours of doses so nothing double-doses or gets skipped across the handoff. Twilio sends the current foster an SMS at each dose time with a reply-to-log shortcut (reply 1 to confirm); a dose unlogged 90 minutes past due flags amber to the foster and red on the coordinator dashboard.

Pricing: GBP 12/month per rescue org, unlimited animals and fosters, billed to the org. 60-day free trial pitched at rescue coordinators.