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Good stuff! Would totally install a native app that sent me pushes when things go in/out of season.
Serious question - would you pay for it?
I could see building a business on top of this FOR SURE.
Awesome MVP
Looks like a very neat idea. I'm curious where the data comes from. For my zipcode (souther New Hampshire) it said apples are in peak season. Peak Apple around here ends early to late October (depending on weather).
I'll have a look at southern New Hampshire specifically and see if anything weird is going on.
Neat! But you've got some work to do to get the data in there. I put in my Southern Indiana zip code and got 12 results back. Only one was actually anywhere near my zipcode (or even in my state). The rest were anywhere from 200 - 500 miles away. Sorry, but I don't consider Maryland to be local to Indiana. I would suggest you work on getting data about local farms in there, and then tighten up the constraints for what…
> We found 9 results near your zip code...
> 3 Results from Michigan: (my county, my county, neighboring county...sure!)
> 6 Results from other states: Wisconsin, New York, Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey, New Jersey.
That's 3 results with 6 that are hundreds of miles away.
Neat! But you've got some work to do to get the data in there. I put in my Southern Indiana zip code and got 12 results back. Only one was actually anywhere near my zipcode (or even in my state). The rest were anywhere from 200 - 500 miles away. Sorry, but I don't consider Maryland to be local to Indiana. I would suggest you work on getting data about local farms in there, and then tighten up the constraints for what…
Thanks for the feedback - this is very first version, and there are a lot of improvements to make. I think you're right about the wording, reading it with fresh eyes it is very confusing, and I'll change it ASAP. Right now, all the farm information data is pulled from aggregated USDA data so there is a ton of work left to do to get better, finer-grained results. My plan is to look at which zip codes get the most quer…
But I empathize a lot. I've pursued a number of side projects in this space. I've worked on an online farmer's market, a plant database, and a recipe database in the hope of solving a nexus of problems around eating sustainably and sourcing food locally. The only one that ever actually made it to live was http://www.fridgetofood.com and I haven't touched that in years, so it has decayed pretty hard.
I always got hung up on the data collection and translation aspect of things. It's not an easy problem to solve.
No, not quite accurate -- the only results it returned are apples and cherries. Apples are 100% correct. Cherries are not. And there are a plethora of squashes and pumpkins recently harvested, as we just had our first frost last week, so the list is clearly incomplete.
http://msue.anr.msu.edu/news/predicted_2017_apple_harvest_da...
Also lucky to be in a west coast state with lots of rain and lots of agriculture.
I get that you don't want to show mostly empty pages(but that's going to happen most places in November), but 500+ miles seems to be stretching the definition of near. Being in Tennessee, I don't know that I'd consider various citrus fruits 572 miles in Florida to be very helpful.