BirdQuest

Demo

About

I've been birdwatching for over a decade. These are some of its shortcomings: 1. **No social layer**: birdwatching is solitary, no one shares trips like Strava/Flighty 2. **No incentives**: nothing pushing me to stay consistent like Duolingo streaks or GitHub commits 3. **Boring tools**: existing apps focus on data entry > fun experiences, no reason to log observations Most casual birders never log their sightings because there's no reward or motivation to do so. *How do we incentivize more people to contribute to birding data?* That's where BirdQuest comes in: 1. Social - **Share Cards** — share your birding trip stats, just like Strava/Flighty - **Community map** — see where other birders have been and tap any trip to view their sightings 2. Incentives + Gamification - **Onchain rewards** — earn BIRD tokens every trip, weighted by distance, time, and species rarity - **Weekly quests** — compete on a live leaderboard for a HBAR prize pool, paid out automatically onchain - **NFT badges** — mint badges like *First Trip* and *Rare Bird* directly to your wallet - **Tip users** — tip other birders for great finds! 3. Direct Contribution to iNaturalist - **AI bird identification** — point your camera at a bird, get an instant ID powered by Claude vision - **iNaturalist sync** — publish sightings to the largest citizen science database in one tap - https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&user_id=birdquest&verifiable=any Unlike other apps that force you to start from scratch, BirdQuest lets you contribute directly to the world's largest biodiversity dataset with over 4 million contributors.

How it's made

**Mobile:** React Native via Expo **Backend:** Next.js API routes deployed on Vercel **Database:** Supabase (complex retrieval of trip history, leaderboards, quest management) **AI:** Claude API for bird identification **iNaturalist API:** directly publishing observations to iNaturalist BirdQuest uses both Hedera and Dynamic comprehensively: ### Hedera 1. **HCS (Hedera Consensus Service)** — every trip is submitted as an immutable, timestamped message to a public topic. This creates a tamper-proof audit trail of all birdwatching activity independent of our database. - https://hashscan.io/testnet/topic/0.0.8504662 2. **HTS fungible tokens (BIRD)** — a custom token minted to users at the end of each trip. Scoring factors in distance, time, and species rarity. The operator treasury mints and transfers tokens server-side with sub-cent fees. - https://hashscan.io/testnet/token/0.0.8504663 3. **HTS NFTs (BQBADGE)** — achievement badges minted as non-fungible tokens and transferred to users' wallets. Each badge carries on-chain metadata (name, image) verified via the Mirror Node API to prevent duplicates. - https://hashscan.io/testnet/token/0.0.8506713 4. **Scheduled Transactions** — weekly quest payouts use `ScheduleCreateTransaction` with `waitForExpiry` to create a publicly auditable, time-locked HBAR distribution to the top 3 finishers. The schedule ID is stored and linked to Hashscan so anyone can verify the payout. 5. **Mirror Node API** — used for fetching user’s NFT badges + BIRD token balance. *The operator account handles all token transfers server-side, so users never pay gas.* Operator account: - 0.0.8474143 - 0x072ab32855835d3d4a837f92a26275f3ee8cb84d ### Dynamic - Embedded wallet creation via username + email - Username useful for social aspect - Custom chain: Hedera Testnet (EVM) - Various hooks - state, address, wallet/login modal - Transactions - Tipping and receiving tokens