Plot Buddy: a weekly outdoor card that tells me to put the phone down

Description and use

Plot Buddy delivers a concise outdoor plan for small gardens in Lagos, enabling users to spend 20‑30 minutes outside and avoid phone distractions.

Problem

People who want to grow food in small spaces in Lagos, Nigeria often do not know what to plant each week and spend time on their phones instead of working outside.

Outcome

Plot Buddy delivers a concise, phone‑free outdoor plan for small gardens in Lagos, reducing decision time and encouraging outdoor activity.

Workflow

• Answer two questions on the web interface
• Planner reads a rules file (crops_lagos.json) to decide tasks
• Open‑weight model (qwen2.5:1.5b via Ollama or a hosted model) rewrites the card in friendly English or Pidgin
• Guard checks model output for disallowed content and falls back to rules text if needed
• Card is displayed; user can print or send via WhatsApp
• User performs tasks outside

Evidence

Plot Buddy is a weekly outdoor coach for small home gardens (a bucket, a grow bag, a balcony or a backyard) in Lagos, Nigeria.

Source

You answer two questions and get a one-screen "outdoor card": two or three tasks, how many minutes they take, and when to check back.

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An open-weight model (qwen2.5:1.5b via Ollama) only rewrites the card in friendly English or Pidgin.

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Standard library only. No packages to install.

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