Carnivorous Plant Resource Posted January 21 Report Share Posted January 21 (edited) I'm back with a sequel. When I built Carnivorous Plant Resource, it was at a time when the community lacked modern, responsive tools to access free plant information online. The site evolved into a general-purpose tool for carnivorous plant folks, hosting growing info, club/society even info, and even a marketplace to access private collections. I've noticed a similar lack of modern tools in the growlist tracking space. I see friends using spreadsheets and forum posts - functional, but far from ideal. So, I built collecto.rs with some fellow hobbyists. Here's my example profile: https://collecto.rs/David collecto.rs supports a handful of features that outcompete spreadsheets and simple forum posts: • A web app that looks great and is easy to navigate across any sized screen - mobile, tablet, or desktop. • Plant images featured front-and-center in both grid and list views - way more visually appealing than a spreadsheet. • Powerful filtering, sorting, and searching making it easy to find the right plant/s in your collection, or a friend's. • Easy sharing of your full collection, a filtered view of your collection, or even a specific plant. Don't want to share? - Set your entire collection, or specific items to private. • Use our database of 300,000 plants (and growing) to quickly and easily build out your collection, or manually add your plant and the details that are important to you (CSV/spreadsheet import feature being worked on now). • Mark plants for sale or trade (trade coming soon!) • Light mode/dark mode for easy viewing. • LOTS more fun ideas in the pipeline. I'm hoping you give it a shot, setup your collection, and share it with me along with your thoughts on how we can build an even better tool. We're a small team building this as a passion project (yeah, it's free) with big goals to build the best growlist and collection tracking tool out there - and we want your input on the features and functionality that is most important to you! Edited January 21 by Carnivorous Plant Resource type-o 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carnivorous Plant Resource Posted February 11 Author Report Share Posted February 11 BIG new feature - We now support spreadsheet uploads to collecto.rs! For everyone with an existing spreadsheet, we've made it super easy to migrate on over without having to start from scratch. For the moment, we're testing things with a structured spreadsheet format. Here's how to use it: 1. Signup for a collecto.rs account and set your username. 2. Duplicate this Google sheet and copy+paste your data into the relevant columns. - Please choose from the drop-down options in those columns with pre-defined choices (don't edit the pre-defined options in these columns). - Any images you'd like included need to be hosted at a publicly-accessible URL. 3. Leave a message here with a link to this spreadsheet, or email it to me at david@collecto.rs when it's ready to be uploaded to your account. Alternatively, you can send your existing spreadsheet to david@collecto.rs and I can format it for you and get it uploaded to your account. We're working towards a user-facing feature that allows the upload of any spreadsheet, interprets the data in that spreadsheet, and then intelligently matches that data to the columns in our database that make the most sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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