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1) Wow I've never heard that one before but that's so interesting. I'm just thinking of my parents who love gardening and the insight they might get from that. If you want to leverage our platform for a personal project like that, let us know! Might need to add a few new features to make that seamless.

2) This one we currently support + work with. Thanks for bringing it up again :)

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OK - I actually did this once already. My simple version. I just took a picture every minute in grayscale, then stacked them, then banded that by brightness, then laid that color on a shadowed picture so you could kind of see what was what.

Key improvements though would be some type of classification of sun vs not sun for a pixel (based on the entire stream of pixels for the day for that spot to make it easier) because dark stuff in the yard / walls etc messed up my approach. And banding the color (most gardening says things like needs 6 hours of sun a day) so you can clearly see outlines of areas by hours of sun.

Yes, a lot of people don't know how much sun a spot gets and don't want to sit out all day watching (front yard / back yard etc).

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