Ask HN: Agriculture startups doing interesting work?
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;growbot.online" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;growbot.online</a>  (GrowPotBot)  YC W2018 
is an open source positronic (AI) aeroponic residential and lightweight industrial gardening appliance.<p>the tech stack fits into multiple platforms, we spent the last few years in China and Malaysia understanding value engineering, manufacturing logistics.<p>we&#x27;re hoping to ship in major retailers starting in 2020 with an incredibly low &lt; $100 &#x27;in cabinet&#x27; unit that can produce peppers, tomatoes and cannabis (or whatever you want).  the primary differentiator is the cost and intelligence of the unit targeted at high yield strains of food and medicine in small spaces.<p>we&#x27;re hoping to make them so cheap we can nearly give them away and make indoor urban farming &quot;a thing&quot; before climate change really kicks into full gear and destroys outdoor gardens.<p>positronic &quot;closed loop&quot; garden, happy to share what we&#x27;re working on with other like minded people and collaborating with other growers internationally on open-data standards for storing this data and compiled models.