Past milestones

What have we achieved so far? Here's a history of milestones we've passed.

Note that only major new features are listed here; in addition to these, there are always lots of smaller improvements to the site every month.

2012

 * July:
 * Skud comes up with the original idea: an open source "Ravelry for food gardeners" which will aggregate data about crops and planting and make it available under an open license, via an API.
 * August:
 * "Growstuff" name chosen
 * Mailing list, github repository and various other forums/social media set up.
 * Licenses chosen (AGPLv3, CC-BY-SA)
 * Use cases developed
 * Initial crop database (spreadsheet) developed (approx 220 crops)
 * First Iteration of coding
 * September:
 * This wiki launched.
 * Staging website launched -- you can now see our work in progress, and customers can test new features on a live website.
 * October:
 * First recruited Customers to review our dev work.
 * Staging website features now include signup/login, and a rudimentary editable crop database.
 * November:
 * First import of ~220 crops database from collaboratively-built spreadsheet.
 * Added "post" functionality (originally called "updates"), and RSS feeds.
 * There is also a rudimentary JSON API for crops and other data.
 * December:
 * Added "gardens" functionality.
 * Added "planting" functionality.
 * By end of month, members could plant crops in their gardens -- the main functionality for tracking your garden had come together.

2013

 * January
 * Growstuff selected for the Pinboard Investment Co-Prosperity Cloud from a field of hundreds of applicants. We receive $37 in funding and are mentioned in Wired.
 * Mobile website.
 * February
 * Accepted into NEIS (Australian government small business program).
 * Launched Pear, our pair programming matchmaking app.
 * Added forums and comments to posts.
 * Added notifications/inbox feature.
 * Launched Growstuff blog and email newsletter.
 * March
 * "Soft launch" of our production website.
 * April
 * Added sun/shade metadata to plantings (our first usefully aggregate-able metadata).
 * Added "find members near you" feature (our first geodata feature).
 * Major homepage redesign, including new signed-in homepage.
 * June
 * Added ability to add photos to plantings.
 * Public launch, including paid accounts.
 * ~200 members
 * July
 * First official Roadmap developed in consultation with Growstuff community.
 * Seed tracking/trading added.
 * August
 * Major homepage redesign.
 * ~400 members
 * September
 * Received $1000 grant from the Awesome Foundation
 * ~500 members
 * October
 * Launched harvest tracking features.
 * Added downloadable data in CSV form.