Supporting a Birding Community

Niche communities exist and they are always looking for new ways to utilize the data they have at hand to improve or enhance the other services out there. Bird watching has always been a hobby of mine and I grew up with my dad taking me on trips to Ontario's Pointe Pelee National Park every May for the spring migration. Over the years the use of digital has improved this conservation practice with the introduction of tools like eBird and Merlin. There are a few edge cases out there where local communities want to track rare birds, share sightings and make it more accessible. I decided to see what I could do and my first take at using Claude Code. Over a weeks time I created a fully functional app that allows users to track sightings utilizing eBird data and then also create custom tracking locations with which individuals can share with other birders easily. Entirely built using Claude Code, only needing a little bit of knowledge to setup Vercel and some Postgres DB setup. The rest was