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Show HN: Terrafarm - pay farmers up-front for seasonal products

2 points by rojobuffalo ↗ HN
https://terra.farm

This is a prototype web app that I published this past weekend. There isn't much you can do with it until I get some farmers to post their products. But the basics are in place to post a product, register shareholders, and issue/validate vouchers. If you want to mess around with it, you can create an account and reserve a product marked as demo data, and I'll activate those shares. Thanks for checking it out.

-Ryan

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gus_massa
[I live in Argentina, so I hope this feedback is useful but I'll probably never register as a user.]

I don't understand what are the credits in:

> Pay farmers up-front for seasonal products. Trade and donate credits when you have extra.

Also, while looking at the site I really wanted to know which products are available. (My guess is this site is more useful for raspberries than for potatoes.) (Can I buy potatoes anyway?) Can I request a new product?

What happens if a farm have some natural disaster and the production is destroyed?

rojobuffalo
Thanks for the questions. I can see how "credits" might not be clear. The idea is you buy-in up front and then have access to vouchers which can be traded in for product distributions. These vouchers are transferable, but I have not yet built the UI for trading and donating; maybe I should have left that part out for now.

Having a feature to request products is a great idea. I hadn't thought of it, but I will now.

There is some shared risk in traditional CSAs. When the farmer has a banger crop, the shareholders get bigger distributions; when there is a shortfall, everyone gets a little less. The manner in which CSA farmers handle that variance is unique to each farm.