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Show HN: Independent Vet – Find locally owned vets (and corporate ones) near you

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Show HN: Independent Vet – Find locally owned vets (and corporate ones) near you
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Three years ago, our dog was sideswiped by a car and my wife took him to the local vet in Berkeley. Unfortunately, things did not go well and to cut a long story short, he passed after 2 days and $13k of bills for very limited care. I was surprised to learn that the seemingly mom & pop practice had been acquired by a PE-owned consolidator and that around 50% of practices in the US are now owned by mostly PE-backed corporate groups - a trend that rapidly accelerated after COVID.I started a small janky passion project called PrivateEquityVet.org which used Leaflet.js to map corporately owned veterinary practices in the US. The site gradually took off, was covered on PBS Newshour and now gets 20k uniques a day.A few months ago I launched IndependentVet.com which aims to be the opposite of the original site, helping pet parents in the US/Canada/UK identify locally owned veterinary practices. Just yesterday I launched native mobile apps that I developed over the course of three intense weeks of evenings and weekends using Opus 5.5. While it's early days, I'm really happy with how it turned out: https://independentvet.com/getWould love to hear what you think!

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