🎣 Built a free tool to track your fly tying materials — would love feedback

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TheAngler

Just Hatched
Hey PNW tyers 👋

Like most of you, I've got drawers full of materials and never quite remember what I have when I'm at the vise or at the shop. So I built something to fix that.

Fly Tying Inventory (https://www.flytyinginventory.com) — a free web app that lets you:

  • 📦 Track what you own — log your dubbing, hooks, thread, hackle, feathers, everything. Add colors, sizes, quantities, even snap a photo 📸
  • 🪶 See what you can tie — the app matches your inventory against 300+ patterns and tells you which flies you can tie right now, which you're one material away from, and what you need to buy
  • 📖 Browse 300+ patterns — full step-by-step tying instructions with materials lists and video tutorials. Browse without signing up → (https://www.flytyinginventory.com/explore)
  • 🛒 Smart shopping list — knows exactly what you're missing and where to get it
It runs in your browser — phone, tablet, or desktop. No app store download needed. Free to use.

I've been using it with a small group of tyers and the feedback has been great. Would love to hear what the PNW community thinks — especially what materials or local patterns you'd want to see added. 🪝

👉 flytyinginventory.com (https://www.flytyinginventory.com)

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Tried to create an account and it gave mScreenshot_20260401_125011_Vivaldi.jpge this error on my Android Samsung 24LE with the Vivaldi browser. Basically the same as Chrome. Looks cool!
 
@SurfnFish - I built the photo-and-category feature for exactly that reason. If I’m at the store and can’t remember whether I already bought something, I can pull up the category on my phone and quickly scan through the images. It helps me avoid buying too many duplicates.

I’m also planning to add image recognition to help auto-label materials, but that will take some time since I need a fairly large set of submissions to train it well. That said, I’d definitely encourage you to start adding your materials now, since those submissions will help improve classification in the future.
 
TheAngler said:
@SurfnFish - I built the photo-and-category feature for exactly that reason. If I’m at the store and can’t remember whether I already bought something, I can pull up the category on my phone and quickly scan through the images. It helps me avoid buying too many duplicates.

I’m also planning to add image recognition to help auto-label materials, but that will take some time since I need a fairly large set of submissions to train it well. That said, I’d definitely encourage you to start adding your materials now, since those submissions will help improve classification in the future.
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So AI running in the background for photo recognition?
 
TheAngler said:
@SurfnFish - I built the photo-and-category feature for exactly that reason. If I’m at the store and can’t remember whether I already bought something, I can pull up the category on my phone and quickly scan through the images. It helps me avoid buying too many duplicates.

I’m also planning to add image recognition to help auto-label materials, but that will take some time since I need a fairly large set of submissions to train it well. That said, I’d definitely encourage you to start adding your materials now, since those submissions will help improve classification in the future.
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I'll give it a go...thnx for standing the website up
 
Love this idea. Heading to Mexico on Friday, so likely wont have time to play around with it until I get back.

I did have a question though. If I add an outdated material (because it's not already in the program) will it add it to the program for others to select, or is that just for me to see?

I have a bunch of old school dubbing from manufacturers that are likely no longer producing it. Just wondering if it's like those sports card inventory apps where if you add a card that wasn't previously documented, it documents it, and then is visible to others so they can look at the pictures and see if it's the same card they have.

Another fun (but kind of useless) feature would be to see how many of each item the community owns. The one use would be if you allowed "trading", where a member could contact another member if they were looking for a specific material that is no longer available, and they could offer to purchase or trade for it.

Might also be cool to allow people to add patterns to the database to increase the material/recipe match functionality.

Anyways, cool idea, looking forward to playing around with it!
 
James St. Clair said:
Love this idea. Heading to Mexico on Friday, so likely wont have time to play around with it until I get back.

I did have a question though. If I add an outdated material (because it's not already in the program) will it add it to the program for others to select, or is that just for me to see?

I have a bunch of old school dubbing from manufacturers that are likely no longer producing it. Just wondering if it's like those sports card inventory apps where if you add a card that wasn't previously documented, it documents it, and then is visible to others so they can look at the pictures and see if it's the same card they have.

Another fun (but kind of useless) feature would be to see how many of each item the community owns. The one use would be if you allowed "trading", where a member could contact another member if they were looking for a specific material that is no longer available, and they could offer to purchase or trade for it.

Might also be cool to allow people to add patterns to the database to increase the material/recipe match functionality.

Anyways, cool idea, looking forward to playing around with it!
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I have implemented the functionality to make custom materials for others to select. It will be up to the creator to decide if they want to share the material definition with others. Currently, they go to an approval page I will moderate for now. I want to make sure people don’t abuse the site. Once we have a good set of dedicated users, I will either have an AI bot approve or we can use moderator.
 
That’s a no from me, dawg. It doesn’t solve a problem I have, and just creates another future security breach.
 
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