Sep 14, 2026 · 1 hr 28 min · 21 segments
In this episode, Nick and Hayden sit down with Shane Simpson and Ryan Carpenter the founders of the TRAKR App. They break down all the ins and outs of this application and how you can use this to help…
Ryan CarpenterGuestNickHostHaydenHostBasically, if you lose a deer and you need a tracker, and this is just to streamline the process of commun-, uh, connecting hunters and trackers together.
Instead of looking on Facebook or calling a buddy or worrying about calling or texting a tracker in the middle of the night, you just hop on the app, submit a request, and it sends out a n- push notifications or email or text.
Uh, de- depending on what the tracker has, they'll very, at the very least, get the push notification.
All the trackers in your area get notified that you're, you need help, and the ones available will, uh, respond, and you'll get, you know, you'll see the trackers reply.
You know, have the help of different state networks, their admins, et cetera, are vetting these trackers to make sure that when you hire somebody through the app, it's someone with a trained dog or even if it's a drone operator, there's some requirements there, uh, to make sure they know what they're doing and they're not just gonna come out there and waste your time and money.
Mm.
Yeah.
Yeah
... it's, the app's been doing really well, especially in the North here, where we, uh, we're based out of, Minnesota, across the North and North- uh, East, and it's, you know, spreading south.
But what we've seen over the last few years this, we were going into season four is, you know, we've made a lot of improvements to the app, and the app's starting to take off.
But what we're really seeing now is some of this data we're collecting, and Ryan has a lot of it-
Mm
in front of him, stuff that we weren't even thinking about that we were gonna be able to see-
Right
But, uh, kind of a indirect aspect of it is we're grabbing da- data, like shot placement and draw weights and broadhead types, et cetera.
Basically, if you lose a deer and you need a tracker, and this is just to streamline the process of commun-, uh, connecting hunters and trackers together.
Instead of looking on Facebook or calling a buddy or worrying about calling or texting a tracker in the middle of the night, you just hop on the app, submit a request, and it sends out a n- push notifications or email or text.
Uh, de- depending on what the tracker has, they'll very, at the very least, get the push notification.
All the trackers in your area get notified that you're, you need help, and the ones available will, uh, respond, and you'll get, you know, you'll see the trackers reply.
You know, have the help of different state networks, their admins, et cetera, are vetting these trackers to make sure that when you hire somebody through the app, it's someone with a trained dog or even if it's a drone operator, there's some requirements there, uh, to make sure they know what they're doing and they're not just gonna come out there and waste your time and money.
Mm.
Yeah.
Yeah
... it's, the app's been doing really well, especially in the North here, where we, uh, we're based out of, Minnesota, across the North and North- uh, East, and it's, you know, spreading south.
But what we've seen over the last few years this, we were going into season four is, you know, we've made a lot of improvements to the app, and the app's starting to take off.
But what we're really seeing now is some of this data we're collecting, and Ryan has a lot of it-
Mm
in front of him, stuff that we weren't even thinking about that we were gonna be able to see-
Right
But, uh, kind of a indirect aspect of it is we're grabbing da- data, like shot placement and draw weights and broadhead types, et cetera.
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