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• itsanaccount
  In restoring old farm ground in Michigan, please send claude robot to kill the autumn olive. I can give it work for years and years.https://woodyinvasives.org/Other super fun fact, do you know there are standards for needle punctures? hexarmor is expensive but its about the only thing I've found that will stop autumn olive woody thorns. They will punch through canvas and leather. Probably also useful for locusts.
• seszett
  It might handle different locations a bit differently, but whichever option I use (feed insects, easy care, soak up rain, etc) it basically suggests me to just leave the most common weeds grow to end up with a heath covered in brambles/wild roses/various thorny weeds.Which is logical I guess, if the goal is just to have native plants that grow naturally here. But I suspect few people are looking for this without any consideration to the ornamental and recreational qualities of the plants.
• John2022
  Nice idea, but given how limited the coverage is, you could save people a lot of time with a map, rather than everyone having to parse 17 regions to work out if they are in one you cover.
• pavel_lishin
  If I may offer a suggestion, it would be great if I could exclude trees from the list of suggested plants - it's much easier for me to print wildflowers and things like that, than an actual tree, where I live.
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  chantepierre
  It works well in the sense that it suggested to plant all the wild plants that I see daily in the woods and nature around me.. on the other hand I guess I could have come to that conclusion myself :D .
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  yegle
  No zip code input, no zoom out. It's either scroll repeatedly or allow you to get my location so that I can check some location in California. No thanks.
• madebylaw
  This is very cool! I got into native plants a few years ago when I moved out to the country. I have been using LLMs to help me with what to plant and where but they aren’t perfect. A couple things that’d be handy / cool to add: - more info on deer hardiness - more info on growth speed (show only fast growers) - would be cool to add a feature for sets of plants too like “good for wild turkeys” or “plant these for all season pollination eg a set of plants that bloom early, middle, late”Congrats on the launch!
• swiftcoder
  That's pretty nice. I had to use mediterranean France as the closest analogue to North Atlantic Spain/Portugal, but the recommendations look about in line with our native flora.However, I don't think any of the stated goals lined up with my use case here - in this specific region, we're trying to deal with rapidly warming/drying summers, and I'd be looking for recommendations to help with soil water retention, shade, etc.
• woadwarrior01
  The intro video looks very well done. How did you go about making it?
• gosen
  Amazing! Very impressive, I like how the app guided me towards the results page
• RobotToaster
  I couldn't find an option to change the soil type, since it guessed mine very incorrectly.
• ChrisMarshallNY
  Very nice! My wife is very much into this, and I'll share it with her.
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  zukzuk
  Love it!Biggest obstacle for me is the giant invasive Ailanthus tree in my back yard. Apparently its roots produce allelopathic chemicals, and I’m finding that some native plants are unaffected (spicebush, wood fern) but others can’t cope at all (asters, cup plant).I can’t find much if any info on this, so it’s been an ongoing experiment.
• louischoi0
  That is cooool.
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  flurben
  as a native plant nerd and GIS dev i love the ideahoweveri think for an experienced developer using claude the app itself would be easy to buildit is the underlying domain knowledge of "what plant actually grows where" is the actual hard part and im not getting the impression that your system is reliable in that area yet