Real World FarmVille - Grow The Planet
Farmville is the most played game over the internet and this could have helped in arousing people’s interest towards farming ideas. The no of kitchen gardens is growing exponentially and the sense of organic food and healthy eating is also increasing. More than a 70 million farms in USA is proposing a multibillion business. Taking this in a positive way a new startup called Grow the Planet (GTP) is thinking of creating the Farmville in the real world. GTP site is acquiring all possible information about plants and vegetables. They provide all necessary tips and techniques and offers growing skills.
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Theirs being a social network, people can share their ideas and opinion and ideas or growing advice and can even share products. The best thing about this is that GTP is location enabled that means user can see who all are close to them and what they are growing. This means they can see their active neighbors.
The company’s main idea is in the possibility for each user to grow their own garden and receive all possible help regarding the farm set up, type of vegetable according to the season weather etc. They bring in extensive ideas, research statistics and climatic knowledge which give them additional hold on the subject.
Through this the user can even have their own garden journal to keep track of their activities and of others as well and can even share their achievements on other social networks.
Though national law forbids them from selling their crops but GOP will help them in exchanging their products. The premium membership offers will provide users full power of tools , ability to interact with hardware censors and provides extended support.
This is certainly some innovative idea. Taking inspiration from the Farmville will help them in growing. The founders are aiming to grow their business into an online gardening store but at present they are more than happy with the response.
Source: Farmville For Real Farming: Grow The Planet Launches Social Network To Teach You To Grow Your Own Food • TechCrunch
Theirs being a social network, people can share their ideas and opinion and ideas or growing advice and can even share products. The best thing about this is that GTP is location enabled that means user can see who all are close to them and what they are growing. This means they can see their active neighbors.
The company’s main idea is in the possibility for each user to grow their own garden and receive all possible help regarding the farm set up, type of vegetable according to the season weather etc. They bring in extensive ideas, research statistics and climatic knowledge which give them additional hold on the subject.
Through this the user can even have their own garden journal to keep track of their activities and of others as well and can even share their achievements on other social networks.
Though national law forbids them from selling their crops but GOP will help them in exchanging their products. The premium membership offers will provide users full power of tools , ability to interact with hardware censors and provides extended support.
This is certainly some innovative idea. Taking inspiration from the Farmville will help them in growing. The founders are aiming to grow their business into an online gardening store but at present they are more than happy with the response.
Source: Farmville For Real Farming: Grow The Planet Launches Social Network To Teach You To Grow Your Own Food • TechCrunch
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