Hi all, I'm building a record-keeping app for small herds (goats, cattle, sheep, poultry) and I'm sharing it here honestly, since Permies allows that.
Before writing a line of code I read about 4,000 critical reviews of the existing livestock apps. The same three complaints came up everywhere: records vanish after updates, the "free" tier caps you at 25 animals AFTER you've spent hours typing everything in, and you pay a separate subscription per species. Several farmers literally wrote that they went back to paper diaries.
So these promises are baked into HerdKeep:
- Works fully offline (barns don't have Wi-Fi)
- Backs up automatically to YOUR Google Drive, not our servers
- Unlimited animals, every species in one app
- Export everything to CSV/PDF, free, forever, your records stay yours even if you leave
It's at the founding-farmers stage:
https://herdkeep.higgsfield.app/?src=permies - early access is free for people who join now and tell me what to build.
What I'd genuinely value from this community: what does your current system (paper, spreadsheet, app) get wrong? What would a homestead herd book have to get right before you'd trust it?
