Furry Places

A full-stack, pet-friendly establishment finder with geospatial search — built as a Bun-based monorepo spanning a native mobile app, two Astro web apps, and a Cloudflare Workers API.

What it does

Furry Places helps pet owners discover pet-friendly restaurants, cafes, hotels, and parks near them, and has grown into a broader community platform:

• Geospatial discovery — search and browse pet-friendly establishments by location, with map views and distance-based filtering (PostGIS + PostGIS GiST indexes)

• Community events — create, browse, and register for pet-related events, with sponsor listings and automated reminder emails

• Missing pet reports (Pet Finder) — report and search for missing/found pets, with automatic expiry and renewal reminders

• Animal shelters directory — browse and (for shelters) manage listings, subject to admin approval

• Reviews & photos — user-submitted reviews and photos with a full moderation pipeline (reports, strikes, bans)

• Notifications — opt-in email (Resend) and web/mobile push (VAPID + Firebase Cloud Messaging) for events, missing pets, and moderation outcomes

• Automated data ingestion — a self-hosted n8n pipeline discovers new pet-friendly places via Google Places / OpenStreetMap, enriches them with Claude, and feeds them into an admin approval queue

• Social auto-publish — newly verified establishments, published events, and approved shelters are automatically posted to Facebook and Instagram via the Meta Graph API

Architecture

A 5-package Bun monorepo:

mobile

• Stack: React Native 0.86, Expo 57, Expo Router, Zustand, TanStack Query, Mapbox

• Purpose: iOS/Android consumer app

web

• Stack: Astro 5 (SSR), React 19, Tailwind, MapLibre GL

• Purpose: Public-facing web app

admin

• Stack: Astro 5, React 19, Tiptap, Recharts

• Purpose: Moderation & operations dashboard

workers

• Stack: Hono.js, tRPC, Drizzle ORM

• Purpose: API, deployed to Cloudflare Workers

shared

• Stack: tRPC client + Zod schemas

• Purpose: Shared types/contracts across all clients

Backend: Cloudflare Workers running Hono + tRPC, backed by PostgreSQL/PostGIS (production on pooled CockroachDB via Cloudflare Hyperdrive), R2 for media storage, and KV for caching.

Auth: Better Auth — email/password, Google OAuth, anonymous sessions, bearer tokens for mobile, plus an admin plugin for roles/bans/impersonation.

API communication: End-to-end type-safe tRPC. Web/admin talk to the API through a same-origin proxy so auth cookies stay first-party; mobile uses bearer-token auth directly.

Highlights worth calling out

• Same shared Zod/tRPC contract drives three different clients (mobile, web, admin) with zero API drift

• Geospatial search built on PostGIS ST_DWithin/ST_MakePoint with GiST indexing for performance at scale

• End-to-end moderation system: user-submitted content flows through reports → strikes → temp/permanent bans

• LLM-assisted data pipeline (n8n + Claude) for autonomously discovering and structuring new establishment listings

• Multi-channel notification system (email, web push, mobile push) with dedupe/idempotency baked in (notification_sends, social_posts claim-then-post pattern)