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Most plant apps start after you've picked the wrong window. This one helps you pick the right one first. Point your phone at a window. Real compass + your GPS + the sun's actual path for your latitude = a verdict: thrive, cope, or avoid. No other app puts these together. Built by a plant store owner who got tired of watching customers bring beautiful plants home to the wrong spot. One purchase, no subscription.
Hey Product Hunt! I'm Jordan, and I built this because I own a plant shop and kept having the same conversation.
Customer buys a plant. Two weeks later they're back, sad, holding a dead fiddle leaf fig. I ask where they put it. Wrong window, every time.
The advice that already exists is vague. "Bright indirect light." Okay, but which window in my apartment? A north-facing window in Austin and a north-facing window in Portland are completely different situations. The sun path is different. The seasons hit differently. Generic compass guidance doesn't cut it.
So I built an app that does the math. You point your phone at a window, it reads the compass, pulls your GPS, and calculates the actual sun exposure for that window on your latitude. Then it tells you whether your plant will thrive, cope, or struggle there.
It's the question before the question. Every other plant app starts at care. This one starts at placement, which is where most plant deaths actually begin.
Happy to answer anything. Would love to know what plants you're trying to find homes for.
How does the verdict change through the year, like does it update as the sun path shifts with the seasons, or is it more of a one-time read?
About Plant Compass Lite on Product Hunt
“Sun-smart plant placement, indoors and out”
Plant Compass Lite was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 4 upvotes and 3 comments, placing #154 on the daily leaderboard. Most plant apps start after you've picked the wrong window. This one helps you pick the right one first. Point your phone at a window. Real compass + your GPS + the sun's actual path for your latitude = a verdict: thrive, cope, or avoid. No other app puts these together. Built by a plant store owner who got tired of watching customers bring beautiful plants home to the wrong spot. One purchase, no subscription.
Plant Compass Lite was featured in Nature & Outdoors (883 followers), Nature (855 followers) and Plants (591 followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 658 products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Plant Compass Lite?
Plant Compass Lite was hunted by Jordan Crone. 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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