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What product is this competing against if any? I am guessing someone in the farming field may know more about what to do with the program but for the layman an

by mrrsm 9y ago

What product is this competing against if any? I am guessing someone in the farming field may know more about what to do with the program but for the layman an explanation or some instructions as to how you use it would be awesome.

jkoschei 9y ago
This looks like a limited-feature clone of Agrilyst [http://agrilyst.com/ http://agrilyst.com/], which won TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2015. (disclosure: I work at Agrilyst)
- krayis 9y ago
  You forgot free and open source.
mambodog 9y ago
There's a whole bunch of products in the 'farm management system' category. YC's entry is called Farmlogs. I previously worked for another such company called Agworld. https://www.google.com/search?q=farm+management+system https://www.google.com/search?q=farm+management+system
karlshea 9y ago
I'm a Drupal dev and I stumbled upon farmOS[0] awhile ago, it's pretty crazy what all this stuff can do. I guess I shouldn't have been so surprised about the amount of data that's useful to a farmer. [0] http://farmos.org/ http://farmos.org/
- ams6110 9y ago
  OT: Why is Drupal 8 such a trainwreck? It's been out for quite some time now, had beta releases available since 2014 and so many modules are still unported or in early alpha status with many issues.
  - karlshea 9y ago
    I wouldn't say it's a trainwreck. I've used it on a handful of sites so far and it's been pretty great to use, but yeah you'll still have to wait for certain modules to get ported depending on the type of site you're doing. You've got to remember that Drupal 7 has been out for six years, so that's a long time for the ecosystem to mature. The current way you'd build a site in D7 barely resembles the way you'd do it back in 2011. Also, it was a long time after it was released that you'd be able to pick it over D6, and I think we're in the same situation with D8. I did launch a D8 site using a bunch of alpha/beta modules last summer and every time I do updates more and more of them have moved to stable. Lots of the big modules are using this as an opportunity to reevaluate how they are approaching things and that can take time to settle. On top of that it's going to take some time for everyone to get used to OOP, DI, and all of the new ways of doing things. Personally I love it and have built a couple of modules so far and it's way nicer, but if this is a module maintainer's first exposure to OOP it's going to be a rough ride. The audience has also shifted. D8 is more of a pro framework/CMS than say D6 was. If you're building a brochureware site or a blog you should just use WordPress or Squarespace. That type of site is certainly possible using D8 but it will be more complicated to set up and won't really show its strengths.

by mrrsm 9y ago

jkoschei 9y ago

This looks like a limited-feature clone of Agrilyst [http://agrilyst.com/ http://agrilyst.com/], which won TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2015. (disclosure: I work at Agrilyst)

krayis 9y ago
You forgot free and open source.

mambodog 9y ago

There's a whole bunch of products in the 'farm management system' category. YC's entry is called Farmlogs. I previously worked for another such company called Agworld. https://www.google.com/search?q=farm+management+system https://www.google.com/search?q=farm+management+system

karlshea 9y ago

I'm a Drupal dev and I stumbled upon farmOS[0] awhile ago, it's pretty crazy what all this stuff can do. I guess I shouldn't have been so surprised about the amount of data that's useful to a farmer. [0] http://farmos.org/ http://farmos.org/

ams6110 9y ago
OT: Why is Drupal 8 such a trainwreck? It's been out for quite some time now, had beta releases available since 2014 and so many modules are still unported or in early alpha status with many issues.
- karlshea 9y ago
  I wouldn't say it's a trainwreck. I've used it on a handful of sites so far and it's been pretty great to use, but yeah you'll still have to wait for certain modules to get ported depending on the type of site you're doing. You've got to remember that Drupal 7 has been out for six years, so that's a long time for the ecosystem to mature. The current way you'd build a site in D7 barely resembles the way you'd do it back in 2011. Also, it was a long time after it was released that you'd be able to pick it over D6, and I think we're in the same situation with D8. I did launch a D8 site using a bunch of alpha/beta modules last summer and every time I do updates more and more of them have moved to stable. Lots of the big modules are using this as an opportunity to reevaluate how they are approaching things and that can take time to settle. On top of that it's going to take some time for everyone to get used to OOP, DI, and all of the new ways of doing things. Personally I love it and have built a couple of modules so far and it's way nicer, but if this is a module maintainer's first exposure to OOP it's going to be a rough ride. The audience has also shifted. D8 is more of a pro framework/CMS than say D6 was. If you're building a brochureware site or a blog you should just use WordPress or Squarespace. That type of site is certainly possible using D8 but it will be more complicated to set up and won't really show its strengths.