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Sure: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/veggie-garden-planner/id1329927332 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/veggie-garden-planner/id132992... Suggestions are always w

Sure: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/veggie-garden-planner/id1329927332 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/veggie-garden-planner/id132992... Suggestions are always welcome. My friend is also working on an Android version, though it doesn't have feature parity (yet).

cdnthrowaway 7y ago
As a gardener myself... This looks super handy :)
libria 7y ago
Really neat! Have you considered a cross platform framework like Flutter or React Native so you could deploy to both?
CallMeMarc 7y ago
What a coincidence, you're in the same small town as the company I work for! ;) Great app btw and congratulations on last year's success :)
- tasuki 7y ago
  The world is a small place! I once worked for a startup, one of our investors was from Herford, apparently got rich off Bitcoin. We visited their coworking space, it was pretty fun.
  - CallMeMarc 7y ago
    You're probably talking about Oliver Flaskämper, right? We're renting an office in his coworking space!
    - tasuki 7y ago
      Hah, we might have met then!
      - mduerksen 7y ago
        ... and just last week we were thinking about utilizing exactly that co-working space. Small world indeed :)
edf13 7y ago
Nice App! Love little niche Apps like this that work well for their sole task. Shows there is a need for paid Apps!
atombender 7y ago
Looks nice! As someone thinking about building an app, how are you balancing the app's free functionality with paid functionality? That's the tricky thing — you want the free functionality to be useful, but you also want as many people as possible to upgrade.
subhro 7y ago
<humour> There’s no ‘e’ is potato</humour>
- sprocket 7y ago
  Dan Quayle has entered the chat.
_bxg1 7y ago
Very cool. My girlfriend (and probably her father) would love this, but they're both on Android. Any plans to port it?
- deleted 7y ago
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- mduerksen 7y ago
  Didn't link it before, but my friend is on the task: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bentosoftware.gartenplaner https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bentosoftw...
phasers 7y ago
That looks really nice! I work for a competing Garden Planner, it's really good to see some more effort put into this space
codetrotter 7y ago
I'm not into gardening myself, but looking at all of the other comments people responded with I can see that you have done a great job -- and also, you know, the fact that it's been doing so well too ;). Nice work :)
steveharman 7y ago
I would use it. My wife would use it. Then I read the comment about being iOS only. Fingers crossed for the future of your friend's work.
- mduerksen 7y ago
  I didn't word my above post clearly, but the Android version is actually already available as I said here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22100642 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22100642 Most notably though, it doesn't have the virtual planner yet.
40four 7y ago
My girlfriend and I share a couple raised beds at the local community garden. We talked about building a similar app like this together, looks like you beat us to it! Will check it out!
cronix 7y ago
That's pretty cool! Have you thought about making it into a PWA and ditch the proprietary ios/android ecosystems and just allow anyone with a browser to use it? It doesn't seem like there is much in this app that NEEDS to be a "mobile" specific app. It looks like you could do it all with html/js and some local storage. I'm a big believer in open crossplatform systems, when it's possible. Obviously if you need access to hardware sensors, etc, it wouldn't work very well.
- mduerksen 7y ago
  For a big portion of the app, I would agree (arguments about native feel aside). But well, there is the virtual planner feature that makes heavy use of carefully tuned iOS gesture recognizers for zooming, panning, dragging, tapping and holding, all in combination for a smooth and useable editor on a small screen. Not that I have actually tried, but I suspect I would have to lay more groundwork to implement the same experience with the browser DOM. This could of course just be a lack of knowledge on my part, but my time is finite :)
  - CSSer 7y ago
    Hi, web app dev here. It’s possible to do. Whether it piques your interest or is worth your personal effort to do is of course up to you, but it is doable. Some may scoff, but I’d even say it’s possible to do it elegantly.
- privateSFacct 7y ago
  Can you give some examples of simple open cross platform systems that make money? I like my apps to be apps and a lot of the "Apps" that are HTML/js are janky cross platform and are tricky to pay for (vs one touch on ioS)
  - ta999999171 7y ago
    "Make money" is a misnomer, but successful PWAs tossed around here include Uber, Starbucks, etc...
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merrvk 7y ago
My mother will love this. I bet she had no idea she needed it as well!
xzel 7y ago
This is a totally random suggestion but, I used to work with a Marijuana company that wanted something almost exactly like this to track their plants between different strains, lifecycles etc. that were on a grid system. This was a few years ago. You might want to check out that market and might be able to re-use a lot of this feature set?
- ta999999171 7y ago
  GROWTRACKER on F-Droid!

cdnthrowaway 7y ago

As a gardener myself... This looks super handy :)

libria 7y ago

Really neat! Have you considered a cross platform framework like Flutter or React Native so you could deploy to both?

CallMeMarc 7y ago

What a coincidence, you're in the same small town as the company I work for! ;) Great app btw and congratulations on last year's success :)

tasuki 7y ago
The world is a small place! I once worked for a startup, one of our investors was from Herford, apparently got rich off Bitcoin. We visited their coworking space, it was pretty fun.
- CallMeMarc 7y ago
  You're probably talking about Oliver Flaskämper, right? We're renting an office in his coworking space!
  - tasuki 7y ago
    Hah, we might have met then!
    - mduerksen 7y ago
      ... and just last week we were thinking about utilizing exactly that co-working space. Small world indeed :)

edf13 7y ago

Nice App! Love little niche Apps like this that work well for their sole task. Shows there is a need for paid Apps!

atombender 7y ago

Looks nice! As someone thinking about building an app, how are you balancing the app's free functionality with paid functionality? That's the tricky thing — you want the free functionality to be useful, but you also want as many people as possible to upgrade.

subhro 7y ago

<humour> There’s no ‘e’ is potato</humour>

sprocket 7y ago
Dan Quayle has entered the chat.

_bxg1 7y ago

Very cool. My girlfriend (and probably her father) would love this, but they're both on Android. Any plans to port it?

deleted 7y ago
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mduerksen 7y ago
Didn't link it before, but my friend is on the task: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bentosoftware.gartenplaner https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bentosoftw...

phasers 7y ago

That looks really nice! I work for a competing Garden Planner, it's really good to see some more effort put into this space

codetrotter 7y ago

I'm not into gardening myself, but looking at all of the other comments people responded with I can see that you have done a great job -- and also, you know, the fact that it's been doing so well too ;). Nice work :)

steveharman 7y ago

I would use it. My wife would use it. Then I read the comment about being iOS only. Fingers crossed for the future of your friend's work.

mduerksen 7y ago
I didn't word my above post clearly, but the Android version is actually already available as I said here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22100642 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22100642 Most notably though, it doesn't have the virtual planner yet.

40four 7y ago

My girlfriend and I share a couple raised beds at the local community garden. We talked about building a similar app like this together, looks like you beat us to it! Will check it out!

cronix 7y ago

That's pretty cool! Have you thought about making it into a PWA and ditch the proprietary ios/android ecosystems and just allow anyone with a browser to use it? It doesn't seem like there is much in this app that NEEDS to be a "mobile" specific app. It looks like you could do it all with html/js and some local storage. I'm a big believer in open crossplatform systems, when it's possible. Obviously if you need access to hardware sensors, etc, it wouldn't work very well.

mduerksen 7y ago
For a big portion of the app, I would agree (arguments about native feel aside). But well, there is the virtual planner feature that makes heavy use of carefully tuned iOS gesture recognizers for zooming, panning, dragging, tapping and holding, all in combination for a smooth and useable editor on a small screen. Not that I have actually tried, but I suspect I would have to lay more groundwork to implement the same experience with the browser DOM. This could of course just be a lack of knowledge on my part, but my time is finite :)
- CSSer 7y ago
  Hi, web app dev here. It’s possible to do. Whether it piques your interest or is worth your personal effort to do is of course up to you, but it is doable. Some may scoff, but I’d even say it’s possible to do it elegantly.
privateSFacct 7y ago
Can you give some examples of simple open cross platform systems that make money? I like my apps to be apps and a lot of the "Apps" that are HTML/js are janky cross platform and are tricky to pay for (vs one touch on ioS)
- ta999999171 7y ago
  "Make money" is a misnomer, but successful PWAs tossed around here include Uber, Starbucks, etc...

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merrvk 7y ago

My mother will love this. I bet she had no idea she needed it as well!

xzel 7y ago

This is a totally random suggestion but, I used to work with a Marijuana company that wanted something almost exactly like this to track their plants between different strains, lifecycles etc. that were on a grid system. This was a few years ago. You might want to check out that market and might be able to re-use a lot of this feature set?

ta999999171 7y ago
GROWTRACKER on F-Droid!