YourPlantFriend

YourPlantFriend is an AI chatbot that helps you find plants that are native to your current location. It will ask you guiding questions about your plant-related preferences and give you personalized suggestions based on your responses.

Why we picked this topic

• care about the environment
• important to focus on planting native plants
  • support local animals (for pollinators, for habitats)
  • avoid invasive species
  • lower maintenance (save water, for example)
  • encourage people to grow more plants (for environment, beautification)

Goal of project

• create an ai chatbot that helps you find and narrow down choices for native plants you can grow
• gives people a jumping off point so that they can get ideas for further research

Execution of project

• scraped website to generate database - used database to generate suggestions
• use gemini api to incorporate chatbot
  • crafted specific prompts to make chatbot more effective
• created frontend chatting interface

Continuation

• web scraping for all zip codes
• more extensive database
  • more plants in total
  • more information about each plant
  • include photos of each plant
• better search functionality within database
• fetch more links to guide user in further research
  • fetch amazon link to seeds

Built With

• gemini
• javascript
• python
• svletekit