About Hundo Hunter

I built Hundo Hunter because I was tired of typing IVs into a spreadsheet. Every other calc on the internet either wanted my email, made me watch an ad, or buried the answer under three paragraphs of SEO filler. I just wanted to point my camera at a mon and have the number show up. Now it does — for me, and for anyone else who wants to use it.

The moment I remember: I had ~600 mons in storage, a hunch that maybe a dozen of them were hundos, and no fast way to confirm. The in-game appraisal flow takes five taps per mon. That's 3 000 taps. So I did what every developer does when faced with a tedious manual task — I opened a fresh project folder and called it “hundo-hunter”.

The first version was a one-screen IV calculator on the web, written in a weekend. Then the website grew calculators for trades and power-ups. Then I realized I could do better than asking trainers to type numbers in: with iOS Screen Recording piped through a Broadcast Extension, an OCR pipeline could read CP / HP / dust / species off the screen in real time while a trainer scrolled their storage. That became the iOS app — a live broadcast scanner that auto-fills the vault as you scroll. It's the feature I'm proudest of, and the one I use every week.

Hundo Hunter exists because the trainers I built it for — the ones who care about the math, who plan their trades, who don't want a login wall between them and a number — deserve a tool that respects their time.

For the curious devs: Hundo Hunter is two codebases sharing one data layer. The website is a Next.js 15 App-Router app deployed on Vercel — ~5 500 statically-generated pages plus a handful of ISR routes for live event / raid / Rocket calendars. Neon Postgres caches translated event copy across 10 locales so we're not paying an LLM per pageview.

The iOS app is React Native (Expo Router) with custom native Swift modules. The live scanner runs in a Broadcast Extension — Vision-framework OCR plus a 256-dim MobileNetV3-small CNN (CoreML, ~2.5 MB on-device) for sprite recognition. The recognition pipeline runs entirely on your phone; no frames, no screenshots, no telemetry leave the device.

The deal I've made with the trainers who use Hundo Hunter is simple: no ads, no tracking, no account. The website runs Vercel's first-party cookieless analytics — page counts only, no visitor profiles, no GDPR banner. The iOS app stores your vault in a local SQLite database that never gets uploaded anywhere. There is no “sync” toggle because there is no server to sync to.

Where I can, I contribute back. The sprite-recognition CNN was trained on screenshots augmented with sprites from PokéMiners — the unsung heroes who datamine and publish assets so the rest of the community can build on top of them. Tier-list and counter data is curated from Pokebattler, Pokémon GO Hub, Pokebase, Dotgg, and Dittobase; every per-species page that uses their numbers credits the source on the page.

Hundo Hunter ships almost weekly. Every release — the broadcast-scanner discriminator, the multi-locale launch (10 languages), the Max Battles surface, the per-grunt Rocket phrase search — lands on the public changelog with a human-readable summary, not a git log dump. Pick the format that fits your reader: RSS, Atom, or JSON Feed.

The active roadmap: multi-language live OCR (the scanner currently reads English UI only — Japanese, Spanish, and Portuguese are next), auto-tagging from the storage system (so the website's 50+ tag categories suggest which mons in your vault match), and live Rocket counter recommendations from your own collection. The full roadmap — what's shipped, what's coming free, and what unlocks with the one-time Pro upgrade — lives on the Pro page.

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