108 points by adamaskun 5 days ago | 87 comments
mikeocool 4 days ago
Though I think there is something interesting you are exploring here —- I imagine this is backed by an LLM API? If that’s the case, I would naively assume that I can get similar information using my chat gpt subscription directly — personally that’s where I find myself going for many of the random questions that come up in my life these days.
That brings up a couple of interesting questions that I would be curious to hear the results over time on (not that you have any obligation to share) 1) is there a wide audience that finds a value in this that don’t otherwise have access to ChatGPT/claude/whatever llm — and value this enough to pay just for this sort of ‘niche’ AI product? Or 2) alternatively — is the prompting/fine tuning/curation of the ai content you are providing better than what a naive LLM user could do on their own in a casual chat, that paying for this directly in addition to an LLM service would be worth it?
joshvm 4 days ago
I say Western as the training data is skewed by common species and usually they’re a bit geographically limited (for example BirdNET works best if you use a localised model).
Also if you use these free services, you can contribute natural training data which is valuable - even for well represented species.
esperent 4 days ago
But a $7 subscription is far more than the utility I'd get from it.
hotgeart 4 days ago
reducesuffering 4 days ago
mikeocool 4 days ago
reducesuffering 4 days ago
voidee 4 days ago
As many others here stated, there are free trustworthy alternatives like PlantNet and iNaturalist. For now, even Google Lens is more reliable… until Google gets flooded with bad data and AI generated images of plants.
$3 seems like a better entry point for a product to test the market. Equivalent to a cup of coffee in most cities.
arecsu 4 days ago
A better pricing schema for this, that also combat today's subscription fatigue, would be to sell X amount of plant scans. Like you can sell 10, 30 or 60 in different pricing scales. Pay once, the already scanned plants stay there in the users library. At least, I would find that pricing to be much more realistic and fair, and I suspect plenty of potential users are in the same boat as me. I will be able to personally scan the aforementioned 8 plants today, and 2 new plants in the long run, and it will feel great and fair.
Loughla 4 days ago
What makes yours different?
esperent 4 days ago
zirkuswurstikus 4 days ago
oneeyedpigeon 4 days ago
mplewis 4 days ago
oneeyedpigeon 4 days ago
adamaskun 4 days ago
Loughla 3 days ago
kayson 4 days ago
dyauspitr 4 days ago
Loughla 3 days ago
bertylicious 4 days ago
Edit: I can't even delete my account? This app seems just super sketchy now. My impression is that it's either a scam or build by someone lacking the necessary experience and skills.
adamaskun 4 days ago
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I will set 7 days trial without payment, from what i got from feedback
chachacharge 4 days ago