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I must have finished like 15 projects that was meant to be generating money and was technically capable to do that.

Biggest failure was SAAS for organizing wineries and generating reports for carious government bodies. There are various old software from 90s that do that or you can use paper books (depending on country you are not allowed to use excel).

I've spent around 3 years of fulltime work but it turned out farmers do not care about software. They might use some old desktop software or just hope that inspection is not going to come. Software is still up and running and there are some paying customers, but it just doesn't make sense to spend much time working against the wind. Also my addressable market is not big enough to support additional development.



We also made software for farmers and we have an awe-inspiring 1 (one) user!

Same as your experience: farmers don’t care about software or computers in general


Don’t wineries need to apply pesticides to their orchards?

I would gather that some of the pesticide-applying-drones, from a few Chinese drone manufacturers, might be useful to them.

Is this something you can pivot to?


Sure, there are plans you need to adhere to, so you can get quality you need (and you need to keep records of what, when and how much you spray and calculate if you are within limit, depending on country and form of agriculture practice you adhere to). This is already in the app.

Drones for spraying is buzzword for past few years, but it isn't going to work for many different reasons both technical and legislative. At the end the act of spraying is not pain point for vineyards: the current technology is dependable, easy and proven. (Speaking as a certified farmer)




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