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| Hi Everyone,
I am creating a FREE mobile app to HELP OUT HOME GARDENERS like you. Its called GoTo Garden. It gives gardeners an avenue for selling their excess. And it gives everyone else access to this home grown goodness. If you are a home gardener, your backyard will temporarily become something of an old fashioned vegetable stand. Using GoTo Garden, you share a little info about your garden such as its location, what kinds of fruits and veggies are available, photos and when you are "open" for business, say, every Tuesday afternoon between 4 and 7pm. If you are on the buying end you can search and locate gardens in your neighborhood (or within reasonable driving distance) that will sell to you. Please check out my kickstarter page for more information: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2120411224/goto-garden-home-garden ers-grow-it-neighbors-buy-i?ref=gw . And please, share it with your friends! PS. I have perused this site so many times, but never have contributed since I did not believe I was knowledgeable enough about ANYTHING to give useful feedback. I am a novice gardener. |
Here is a link that might be useful: GoTo Garden on Kickstarter
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- Posted by Slimy_Okra 2b (My Page) on Thu, Jun 7, 12 at 13:21
| Don't take it personally but I'm really disillusioned by Kickstarter. I donated money to some farmer 's project who promised me pepper seeds in return and I never got any seeds. I contacted him and no reply. |
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| There is too much risk in this project, and no return on investment. I see what you are trying to do but what it really boils down to is we give you money so that you can develop the app that can someday send people to our homes and tell them what we have growing, no thanks. Farmers markets and yard sales already exist for us to sell our excess. Did you do any sort of survey to see that in fact this app is wanted, I don't know many home gardeners that have trouble keeping their produce from going to waste. If I was a commercial farmer that would be a different story. Even assuming you get the $10k that you want you need much MUCH more to market this app because it won't be useful at all unless you can get not only me but my neighbors to use this app. You can't just expect this to work nationally. You need to try to pilot it in your home town and spread from there. Also there is already a website that does exactly what you are trying to do The Farmer's Garden and if you notice it too doesn't get much use so I don't see why yours would be any different. Sorry if I am overly negative in your eyes but this is not the right forum to solicit donations. |
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| Great feedback from you, weirdtrev. Very direct. I have to disagree with your view that gardeners don't have excess. I have never had excess (yes I am a newbie, but I can grow spinach and lettuce very very well.) Every single home gardener in my town is swimming in excess. I was talking to a friend last week who said she was up to her ears in bok choy. She felt like she was pushing it on friends. Farmers markets are fairly inaccessible for the home gardener. How can their booths compete with real farmers? Most people pass by the gardener's booths, because they appear puny. You have to be the first gardener I have talked with that thinks this is a bad idea. DO OTHER GARDENERS ON THIS FORUM HAVE EXCESS THEY WOULD BE PLEASED TO SELL, OR NOT?? As for your second thought: building community is crucial for success. That is obviously the hard part. I have put much thought into this. It IS possible - look at the success of so many other online and mobile apps that require community to function. Now, I did not know about "The Farmer's Garden." I searched fairly extensively before launching. Now that I know about it, I will look at it carefully and consider why it does not get much use. You are right, $10k does not go far in terms of the number of hours it will take to build community. Maybe these guys failed to build community. |
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| Slimy_okra, are you certain that the project you backed got funded? If the project does not reach its funding goal, than no one's credit card gets charged and you do not receive your "reward" (seed packet in this case.) If it did get funded, then that is really really lame of the farmer. |
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