Re:Show HN: I made a site to quick identify any plant and le...
by adamaskun on Sunday October 20, 2024 @05:37AM
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Thanks for sharing this thoughtful perspective! You’re absolutely right. What I’m thinking is to train the app with user input and gradually build a more region-specific database on top of existing models.
Thanks for highlighting this, it really helps guide where I can take the app!
Usually when she's looking up how to care for a particular plant she uses Kagi to exclude websites with a large userbase in the United States. She prefers websites that are UK/Ireland based, or to a lesser degree, Northern European (using Google translate). Why? Because of subtle differences in plant naming, species etc and wildly different climate. She finds advise from U.S. based sites to be extremely questionable here, and you might waste a whole year trying to grow something before you realise that the advice doesn't work here.
But hey, every British band in the 60s and 70s wanted to break into America because they're are hundreds of millions of English speaking people living in a single TV nation. It makes sense for you to focus your efforts there. And whatever AI is behind your app is likely to have been trained on commercial plants in the US.