It started as a notebook problem
Beehivemind exists because writing an inspection down is the part of beekeeping that gets skipped. The three steps below are how the product got from that problem to what it does now.
- The problemFourteen readings an inspection, a hundred hives, and a notebook that has to survive smoke, gloves and rain. Most of it was being written up in the evening from memory.
- What we built firstVoice recording for a single inspection. It worked badly and beekeepers used it anyway, which told us the problem was worth the rest of the work.
- Where it is nowApiaries, inspections, harvest, feeding, treatments and costs, on a phone that works without signal and a dashboard that reads a season top to bottom.