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kiri
A smart terminal companion for tracking your plants
kiri is a minimalist, smart, local TUI (Terminal User Interface) companion for tracking your plants' care. It smoothly calculates moisture levels, reminds you when to water, logs your plant care history, and dynamically adjusts to current weather and seasons for outdoor plants.
Hey Product Hunt! 👋
I’m Pavel, a Senior Frontend Developer. As someone who spends the entire day in the terminal and manages a desktop environment tailored for efficiency, I had a very specific, real-world problem: I kept forgetting to water my indoor plants, and every existing mobile app felt too bloated or out of my workflow.
I wanted a beautiful, keyboard-driven, lightweight status board right in my console. The catch? My main stack is React/Next.js, but for a fast, zero-dependency TUI, I knew it had to be built with Go and the Bubble Tea framework.
To bridge the gap and move fast, I built kiri in close tandem with AI. It was a fascinating experiment in AI-pair programming—leveraging my engineering background to design the architecture, local SQLite storage, and UI layout, while letting the AI help me spin up the Go code efficiently.
What makes kiri special:
Fully Interactive TUI: Smooth tabbed navigation, card grids, and a clean calendar view.
Smart Hydration Model: It doesn't just use static timers; it factors in seasonal shifts and live weather/precipitation data via the Open-Meteo API for outdoor setups.
UNIX-way Ready: Built-in --status and --json flags so you can pipe data straight into your custom system bars (Waybar, Polybar, etc.) or tmux.
100% Local & Lightweight: Powered by a fast local SQLite DB with zero external runtime dependencies.
kiri is completely free, open-source, and crafted for everyone who loves terminal aesthetics and wants to keep their green friends alive.
I’d love to hear your thoughts, feedback, or any feature requests you have. How do you track your plants? Let me know in the comments! 🌿
Finally a plant tracker that doesn't need another bloated app, the moisture math and weather-aware reminders actually make sense in the terminal and it feels fast to update entries.
kiri is genuinely charming to use in the terminal. The moisture tracking feels more thoughtful than the usual reminder apps, and the seasonal adjustments are a nice touch I didn't expect.
The TUI layout is genuinely clean, and I like that it pulls weather data to nudge me before my outdoor herbs actually wilt. Wish it had a quick add from seed, but the moisture math feels spot on.
Does the moisture calculation actually pull from a sensor, or is it just a timed reminder based on when I last logged watering?
love how it pulls weather into the schedule without me tinkering with settings. the moisture readout on my monstera matched what the soil actually felt like, which sold me.
Finally a plant tracker that doesn't want my email or push notifications. Loved how the moisture logic actually accounted for the cold front last week, my fiddle fig got watered on schedule.
About kiri on Product Hunt
“A smart terminal companion for tracking your plants”
kiri was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 9 upvotes and 13 comments, placing #27 on the daily leaderboard. kiri is a minimalist, smart, local TUI (Terminal User Interface) companion for tracking your plants' care. It smoothly calculates moisture levels, reminds you when to water, logs your plant care history, and dynamically adjusts to current weather and seasons for outdoor plants.
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Who hunted kiri?
kiri was hunted by Pavel Antonov. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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