Why is my plant dying?

Inspiration

I was inspired by my godmom, who's a busy social worker and would very much like for her plants to stop dying without her knowing why. I've been working a greenhouse since this summer and have gained some insights to some of the more common plants people get here in Maryland. My dad and I have also been sharing practical tips (learned from work, classes, and trial and error) with each other and family members.

What it does

The app will explain how to solve the most common problems with the plants and will also include guides explaining why this problem has occurred, how to care for the plants so that the problem will not re-occur, and assist in identifying the name of the plant once the tag is long gone. The last point was inspired by my own mom, who can never remember what the plants in the garden are.

How we built it

Honestly, I came up with the idea at 1 pm on Saturday and have been working on it myself. I've used streamlit because I watched the workshop on it and I thought it could have some cool functionality with data science projects I'm interested in. So, I thought 'why not test it out and challenge myself?'

Challenges we ran into

After a workshop on it, I've been utilizing streamlit to make an app. Additionally, I am working by myself during the second hackathon I've ever gone to, and this first hackathon I've worked on a project for.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

I'm proud that I've gotten to work on my first hackathon project and that I seem to be understanding streamlit.

What we learned

I learned that talking through the idea with one of the inspirations of my app (in this case, my mom concerning the identification portion and how the problems with the plant should be phrased for better clarity) was immensely helpful. From the discord for the event, I also learned that I could easily just record my screen in zoom for the demo as I wasn't sure how to make the demo video.

What's next for Why is my plant dying?

I'm not entirely sure. It's midterm week so it will be awhile until I would have free time outside of the hackathon to work on the app. I would like to either fully develop this idea to be useful, or to use this as a base for a future project. The immediate next steps would definitely be to finish putting in all the planned features and finishing the basic content.

Built With

• python
• streamlit