Hello friends,

Just a quick update to let you know how the Aquaponics monitor application is going.

Only the best adjectives, great, awesome, fun, fulfilling, productive, enlightening.

Although frustrating, irritating, difficult, perplexing, challenging should be negative adjectives if you want to build software  you should enjoy these as temporary states before you have the breakthroughs and all the hard work pays off.

I decided to give this update to announce I have two friends now helping me on the project. I’m really over the moon. One friend, Anna is a UI (user interface) designer and another is a developer Dima, both from Russia, lending weight to the idea that Russians make really kind and helpful friends. It’s really awesome feeling to have people working on your own idea, so happy.

I really feel like I’m learning some essential skills in working with a team. Without getting into technical details, tracking your code base, communicating your ideas and a little bit of leadership.

So where’s the project at now?

I’m in the final stages of creating the ‘Proof of concept.’ This is a, lets say skeleton, of an app to show potential users, perhaps even investors to get more information on how users might use it and if there is some potential to market it and make some cash from it.

So after we make this proof of concept the next step is to go out and get the idea tested in the public (end user requirements, market research), using the proof of concept to explain the app and get feedback.

After I figure out how people might use it it needs to be rebuilt as it’s own project, not hard due to the nature of modern modular development.

I still need help.

The code would be open source for people to build, not sell so I’d like some help with intellectual property and trademark rights.

Probably the easiest part, I’m still too busy to be working on. The solution to manage the sensors and send hourly readings from the Raspberry Pi (or other controller) to the MySQL database. Python or node.js for this.

To be honest if I had help in marketing and market research, IP & trademark rights, controller programming/electronics I’d have a full team of skills, we could actually find something more profitable.

The project is open source , you could drop in and out of the project as you feel.

Please share my info with anyone interested in developing or aquaponics.

You can see the project here: http://portfolio.fullstack-adventure.com/sensors

Most of the recent work is behind the scenes.

Would mean a lot if you give me some encouragement in the comments below.

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