Inspiration
The initial inspiration was our inability to remind us to water the plants in our flat on a regular basis. So instead of improving our watering skills we changed to plastic plants which is neither sustainable nor eco-friendly. Furthermore, nowadays there is some awareness of the danger of the world heating up but almost none to the huge catastrophe we can expect when the bee dying continues as it did in the last years. Therefore, when we thought about sustainable living, we decided something has to change in this area of live meanwhile reducing our CO2 footprint.
What it does
Our application helps people, especially these who are new to gardening, to keep their garden and flowers intact. It sends reminders in an adjustable timeframe to water your indoor plants. Based on the weather of the last few days, it sends you hints if the plants need to be watered outside and how much they actually need to prevent gardeners to waste a huge amount of water. The app also reminds you to harvest and suggests the best time to prune your plants so they will be in full bloom again the next year. Because of build-in gamification elements it hopefully helps people to stay motivated to take care of their plants or even support experienced gardeners with a bee friendly plant counter to make their gardens more sustainable.
Currently you have 0 bee friendly flowers.
So all in all the apps helps the gardners to manage their plants meanwhile creating an oasis of wellbeing for plants and animals.
How we built it
We build a hybrid web app (frontend) with the Ionic framework and Angular. With this it is possible to run our application directly as a native Android or iOS app. But it can also be easily deployed to the web to reach even more users. In the BackEnd we used ExpressJs and a MongoDB to store all the necessary data about the gardens and plants.
Challenges we ran into
Finding the right data about the plants in the right format. Bug fixes and some backend problems with MongoDB were also tough.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
The whole application ;)
What we learned
Building an app in under 2 days is quite some work. Even more so if learning a new framework at the same time.
What's next for HackYard
There are several things next up for HackYard. First filling the database with records and care guides about several plants. Maybe we could implement a possibility for the community users to also add their wisdom. Next adding a scanner for the price tag of a newly bought plant to automatically add it to the garden. Based on this we could also add an analysis tool to indicate why certain plants do not grow how they should, just with a scan of the real plant. Furthermore, changing the list of plants with an interactive map to add even more gamification elements.
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