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Experiencing the same things. Basically unusable. Switched back to 4.7 for now.

As a data scientist I’m probably not your intended audience but a “Correlate tool that finds relationships between any two tags with adjustable time lag and bucket size” sounds like a recipe for spurious correlations. In the context of healthcare in particular I would be cautious about drawing conclusions from that sort of analysis.

That’s incredible! Just having access to a list of Amex FHR/THC hotels alone is super helpful! Will check this out next trip I plan.

Sounds like a good idea but I’m not sure I fully understand what the solution is. Also, the landing page is almost unreadable on my phone - lots of very light gray text on light backgrounds.

Postgres! I think you're right I just haven't got to it yet. Thanks for the flag

Right now it’s just a db query on display_name with ilike :skull:

There isn’t a way for users to add plants at the moment. Curious what plants you were looking for though. I can try to identify stores to partner with that have them.

It is more targeted at houseplants now but only because that’s what I know more about. Definitely love these ideas and want to make it better suited for outdoor plants. It could also be a good motivator to encourage people to create an account, so that they can get personalized results based on their location! I think hardiness zone and invasive status are good first steps.

actually it is on there - I think the real problem is that the search functionality is really bad at the moment

https://www.getanyplant.com/plant/c6fb4f16ea74675f84d6085e02...

Thank you for your thoughtful response! I love your ideas. I will have to come back a few times to process everything but will add a few thoughts now.

Many science-oriented resources, such as iNaturalist, license content with creative commons licenses, but don't permit commercial applications. That prevents me from making use of many of them as part of my site. But in general my aim is also much different, so certainly don't see myself as competing. I want to help people actually obtain and enjoy the plants rather than just study them.

I think your tip about leveraging social media is excellent! I will brainstorm content that users can share out, like you describe. Probably a good starting point is a way to share your wishlist (or current collection).

Your idea about maintaining stock lists and allowing pre-purchasing of plants is really brilliant. I don't know much about the nursery space, but I will try to learn more and think about your idea and other options in the space. What you describe makes a lot of sense. I really appreciate your ideas.

Ah yes, there is already a category for aquatic, but you're right that they should really have their own set of filters and everything else too. (foreground / background plant, needs CO2, water PH, etc.). Im wondering if there is a way to provide a tailored user experience based on what the user is interested in, but I feel that will explode in complexity.

Thank you! Cool idea, I was not familiar with this concept. I will look into what data exists for these.

Would love to hear how you envisioned it differently if you're down to share.

Thanks for the feedback - sharing this project has really opened my eyes to my own bias there. Still thinking through how to best expand the site to other countries but in the meantime I'll make sure to mention that the site is US-centric when I share it going forward.

Still using Django, but now I’m using react for front end. This made it a lot easier for me to create a clean modern looking UI.

This is an awesome list with many things I’d never thought of! Thanks for taking the time to write it out. Seems like requirements for the gardening user and the houseplant user vary pretty substantially!

Thanks for the advice! I too am surprised by that. The Django version of my site had something similar! The home page showed plants grouped into categories kind of like Netflix. But when I transitioned to react I limited the scope. But I might go back to that!

One other tip - many sites have APIs that will give you their product data. You may need to contact them about getting access. Or it may be publicly available. But that is better than scraping if it is possible.

Awesome!! Surprised I didn’t know that as I’ve explored plantnet in the past. I’ll add those in!

The process is a combination of things. right now most of the work is done by a massive regex. I also do some manual labeling. Exploring some other solutions too. But accurate mappings are a high priority for the site!

There is a filter on the plant list for pet-safe! Look for the paw icon. Haven’t pulled this info onto the plant detail page yet though.

I just list all of the plants sold at any of the stores I currently integrate with. I use a scientific taxonomic name database to make sure that the binomial names (genus, species) are legit and not miss-spelled and all of my liastings are anchored to that. I match products to binomial names through a process thats that uses a really complex regex, plus some manual labeling. Experimenting with using more ML here.

Price/availability data is updated on a nightly basis. Probably want to increase that frequency, though no one has complained about stale data yet, so not high priority.

Getting some affiliate relationships set up right now! Already have two added in the past week.

That extra / is mysterious... I will dive into that after work.

I'll check it out! Sounds kinda similar to a game I'm playing rn on switch called dredge, though that focuses on fish.

Currently evaluating alternatives for hosting images rn. Open to any suggestions!

Thanks! I mentioned in another comment but definitely hoping to expand once I've nailed the fundamentals!

That would be so cool! I'd love to explore generating images like that with AI.

I experimented with that few months ago and it was very bad unfortunately. Though it may have improved. Probably for common plants it would work excellent (bell pepper, monstera) but most of the plants on the site are fairly obscure, especially the ones without images. I wouldn’t want to create a misleading image. Another AI approach might be to create simple illustrations of plants I don’t have images for, using other images as reference. I haven’t explored that yet!

Wordpress version was basically just static plant pages. And I used jupyter notebooks to update them with new data (like product price and availability). Pretty funny to think about now

I’m on it! What sorts of things do you care about when you’re looking for outdoor plants? Anything besides hardiness zone? Maybe categories for trees, shrubs, etc?

Ooh, I’ve actually been looking into this. It hasn’t been too heavily requested but to me it is a cool feature. I’m curious what you envision by location? Would it be by country? Or something more specific or broad?

Sure! Happy to answer most things as I’m looking to share but also to get feedback and new ideas on those topics.