How I built an AI-powered plant swap community app in a weekend
This is a submission for the DEV Weekend Challenge: Community The Community Plant people are a weird and wonderful bunch. I know this because I'm one of them. My balcony has more pots than chairs. My neighbors know me as "the guy with the jungle." And like pretty much every plant lover I know, I've spent an embarrassing amount of time in WhatsApp groups trying to swap cuttings. You know how it goes. Someone posts "anyone want monstera cuttings?" and within 3 minutes there are 47 replies, half of them just "🙋", the thread is buried, nobody knows who got what, and the person who actually wanted the cutting lives 3 cities away. That's the community I built this for — the balcony gardeners, the indoor jungle people, the "I propagated too many pothos again" crowd. People who want to share plants but have no good way to do it. What I Built BagichaLink — a plant swap platform where you can post plants you have or want, get AI to identify and diagnose them, find swap partners near you, and cha
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