u/amit4blogger

I build a garden planner (EdenVatika) and I've been asking gardeners in different regions to poke holes in it. Minnesota is a good stress test: a short season, a big gap between the north and south of the state, and springs that can swing from 70° to frost in the same week.

One question, mainly: the app works backwards from your frost dates to tell you when to sow and when you'll harvest. Does that hold up here, or are Minnesota's late-May frosts and early-fall cold snaps too unpredictable for a frost-date-based plan to be useful?

Two ways in, no account either way:

Full app for 15 minutes: your own throwaway account, already set up with beds, calendar and harvests. Add your own beds, print, use everything:
https://apps.edenvatika.com/demo.php

Just the bed planner: no timer, build a bed from scratch:
https://apps.edenvatika.com/demo-start.php

I'm not looking for compliments. I'd genuinely like to know what feels confusing, missing, or not useful. I'm the developer, so feel free to be blunt. 🙂

I build a garden planner (EdenVatika) and I've been asking gardeners in different regions to poke holes in it. Houston is the opposite end from where I started: I asked Nova Scotia about a short season, and now I'm asking about a long, hot one.

One question, mainly: the app works backwards from your frost dates to tell you when to sow and when you'll harvest. Here, frost barely seems to be the problem. Summer heat shuts things down, and you get a spring season and a separate fall season. So does a frost-date anchor mean anything in Houston, or should the planning start from heat instead?

Also curious if the planting calendar view actually adds anything over the bed planner, or if it's just noise.

Two ways in, no account either way:

Full app for 15 minutes: your own throwaway account, already set up with beds, calendar and harvests. Add your own beds, print, use everything:
https://apps.edenvatika.com/demo.php

Or just the bed planner, no timer, build a bed from scratch:
https://apps.edenvatika.com/demo-start.php

I'm not looking for compliments. I'd like to know what feels confusing, missing, or just not useful. I'm the developer, so feel free to be blunt. 🙂

I build a garden planner (EdenVatika) and I've been asking gardeners in different regions to poke holes in it. Nova Scotia is the shortest season I've asked about so far.

One question, mainly: the app works backwards from your frost dates to tell you when to sow and when you'll harvest. Does that hold up here, or does the maritime climate make frost dates a bad anchor in the first place?

Two ways in, no account either way:

Full app for 15 minutes — your own throwaway account, already set up with beds, calendar and harvests. Add your own beds, print, use everything:

https://apps.edenvatika.com/demo.php

Or just the bed planner, no timer, build a bed from scratch:

https://apps.edenvatika.com/demo-start.php

I'm not looking for compliments — I'd genuinely like to know what feels confusing, missing, or just not useful. I'm the developer, so feel free to be blunt. 🙂

I will keep it short, I have created a app and need feedback on which of the two demo is better or worse for it.

Demo 1 - https://apps.edenvatika.com/demo.php

Demo 2 - https://apps.edenvatika.com/demo-start.php

New Edit - After some feedback i have changed the demo 1 little.

My site pass the update with no change but starting sep 2 i see the impressions are almost same sligtly lower but in same range but clicks drops significantly.

Anyone else see the same with their website or is it just with me???

For example my earlier click range was 8 to 15 over last 3 months impressions 775 to 1251. But now its 4 cicks and 620 impression. Impression remain in same range but traffic and clicks went down. There is a 50% reduction in US traffic.

Good morning everyone — I'm the developer behind EdenVatika, a garden planner and journal I've been building for gardeners.

I made it because I wanted one place to plan beds, keep track of plantings, record harvests and garden observations, and look back at what happened during the season.

I put together a demo that doesn't require an account, so you can actually explore it before deciding whether it's useful.

What I'm especially curious about is whether the way I've approached garden planning makes sense to an actual gardener. Is there something you'd expect a garden planner to do that this doesn't? Or something that feels unnecessary?

For example someone recently told me — not politely — that they couldn't find their town, and the nearest city the app offered was 62 miles away. Fair enough. I've since added about 12,000 missing towns across the US, Canada and India.

That's the kind of feedback I'm after. I'm not looking for compliments — I'd genuinely like to know what feels confusing, missing, or just not useful.

If anyone wants to poke around, here's the demo:
https://apps.edenvatika.com/demo-start.php

I'm the developer, so feel free to be blunt. 🙂

Good morning everyone — I'm the developer behind EdenVatika, a garden planner and journal I've been building for gardeners.

I made it because I wanted one place to plan beds, keep track of plantings, record harvests and garden observations, and look back at what happened during the season.

I put together a demo that doesn't require an account, so you can actually explore it before deciding whether it's useful.

What I'm especially curious about is whether the way I've approached garden planning makes sense to someone gardening in Florida conditions — year-round growing, hurricane season, planting windows that don't match a typical spring-to-fall calendar. Is there something you'd expect a garden planner to do that this doesn't? Or something that feels unnecessary?

I'm not looking for compliments — I'd genuinely like to know what feels confusing, missing, or just not useful.

If anyone wants to poke around, here's the demo:
https://apps.edenvatika.com/demo-start.php

I'm the developer, so feel free to be blunt. 🙂

Good morning everyone — I'm the developer behind EdenVatika, a garden planner and journal I've been building for gardeners.

I made it because I wanted one place to plan out what's growing in which pot, keep track of plantings, record harvests, and look back at what happened during the season.

Container gardening has its own quirks — repotting, moving things around for sun, tighter spacing decisions — and I'm not sure how well my current approach handles that compared to in-ground bed planning.

I put together a demo that doesn't require an account, so you can actually explore it before deciding whether it's useful.

What I'm especially curious about is whether this makes sense for someone who gardens mostly or entirely in containers. Is there something you'd expect a planner built for container growing to do that this doesn't? Or something that feels like it's designed for in-ground gardeners and doesn't quite fit your setup?

I'm not looking for compliments — I'd genuinely like to know what feels confusing, missing, or just not useful.

If anyone wants to poke around, here's the demo: https://apps.edenvatika.com/demo-start.php

Look You care about your app, I care about mine and others just looking around for some ideas. So its all give and take, help other a little and get helped.

I stuck in an issue and i want some feedback so we test each other app and give honest first look impression - like an average joe having a vague idea about the app from its name and just trying and what he/she likes or dislikes done in first 30 seconds that's all.

Believe it or not our first 30 seconds decide whether we will get a ton of traction or a few.

I test yours for 30 seconds, ( app , demo onboarding anything ) just 30 seconds and will give you my honest opinion and you gave me for mine. Brutal honest opinion, we are not friends here right just helping other to get helped.

So if you are interested let me know. ( "Intrested" ).

Good morning everyone — I'm the developer behind EdenVatika, a garden planner and journal I've been building for gardeners.

I made it because I wanted one place to plan beds, keep track of plantings, record harvests and garden observations, and look back at what happened during the season.

I put together a demo that doesn't require an account, so you can actually explore it before deciding whether it's useful.

What I'm especially curious about is whether the way I've approached garden planning makes sense to an actual gardener. Is there something you'd expect a garden planner to do that this doesn't? Or something that feels unnecessary?

I'm not looking for compliments — I'd genuinely like to know what feels confusing, missing, or just not useful.

If anyone wants to poke around, here's the demo:
https://apps.edenvatika.com/demo.php

I'm the developer, so feel free to be blunt. 🙂

Good Morning and hello to the members of "DenverGardener", I am giving away 1 year subscription of Edenvatika Garden Planner & Journal For Free To 3-4 Most helpful People.

What I want - I built a garden planning app and I'm trying to figure out why almost nobody signs up after trying the free demo.

The demo drops you into a sample garden — four square-foot beds already planted with a season's worth of logs — so you can see how the app tracks a garden over time. But you can also build your own plan from scratch right there, no account needed.

What I want to know: did you end up building anything yourself, or did you just look around the sample garden? And either way — what would actually get you to create an account? I suspect most people only tour the sample and never try building, and I want to know if that's true and why.

If you're willing to poke around the demo and tell me honestly what would (or wouldn't) get you to sign up, I'll give a year of the paid tier free to the 3 most helpful answers.

I'm the developer — ask me anything, including what it does badly.

Demo Link ( no account needed ) - https://apps.edenvatika.com/demo.php

First why this question? - The truth is i have been building a garden management app and a lot of the good stuff is built upon the harvest weight. For example the yield per plant, how much you saved vs buying it, and whether a crop was worth its pot.

But the thing is even i don't always measure my harvest weight for bottle gourd, Hyacinth Bean or ridge gourd etc. And the handful of gardeners using my app also fails to log the weight most often. Everyone logs the count and forgot the lbs, ounce & grams.

Which leaves me stuck on how to handle it:

• Estimate from average vegetable/fruit weight, so "6 tomatoes" becomes a number without you doing anything — but it's an average, and your Sungolds aren't the average.
• I do the average but for each variety type in the plant database but then custom plants left out.
• Keep weight optional and just show counts for everyone else — honest, but then half the yield features do nothing for most people.

Feels worse to show a made-up number than no number, but I might be overthinking it.

If you track harvests at all — do you weigh, count, or just not bother? And would an estimated weight annoy you or be fine?

Hi, I'm Amit — I build EdenVatika solo.

I made this sub for one reason: I'm at the stage where what I build next should come from the people actually using the app, not from my guesses.

The app Edenvatika is related to gardening in case you are wondering.

So this is the place to tell me what's working, what's broken, what's missing, and what you never touch. I read everything and I'll reply to everything.

Feature requests, UI complaints, "this confused me" — all of it is useful, and blunt is better than polite. I'll also post here first about what I'm building and why, before it ships.

Thanks for growing with me. 🌱

https://www.reddit.com/r/Edenvatika/