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24 alternatives to Growlab – Grow seeds and share your progress with the Raspberry Pi

A global contest to grow and monitor your own food with Raspberry Pi - growlab/README.md at master · alexellis/growlab

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. Growlab – Grow seeds and share your progress with the Raspberry Pi launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    A global contest to grow and monitor your own food with Raspberry Pi - alexellis/growlab

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A global contest to grow and monitor your own food with Raspberry Pi - alexellis/growlab

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Using the Raspberry Pi to water plants automatically

    2017 · mtlynch.io · its alternatives →

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    A few months ago, I was inspired by this post on Reddit, titled: Food items should have QR codes that instruct the microwave exactly what to do. Like high for 2 minutes, let stand 1 minute, medium 1 minutes.. I thought this was a pretty cool idea, and that it

    2013 · madebynathan.com · its alternatives →

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    Celebrate team wins in Slack

    2015 · growbot.io · its alternatives →

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    Monitor your world with Enviro and Enviro + Air Quality for Raspberry Pi!

    2019 · shop.pimoroni.com · its alternatives →

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    A monitoring station for carnivorous flora. Contribute to blackrabbit17/xenolab development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Noodle Seedfree tier, from $30/mo▲432

    Hi HN! I’m Uzair, Founding Engineer of Noodle Seed. We enable businesses to deploy native apps inside ChatGPT conversations when users need recommendations. What we built: A multi-tenant no-code platform that helps businesses create custom ChatGPT Apps. When someone asks “find me a legal firm in Austin,” businesses using our platform appear with their own branded app - complete with UI components, interactive elements, and real-time information. Not random results from old training data, but actual custom experiences with each business’s branding. Try it: We’re in limited beta with founding…

    Jan 2026 · noodleseed.com · its alternatives →

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    3nd generation with faster processor, wireless and Bluetooth

    2016 · raspberrypi.com · its alternatives →

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    GROW Duo▲180

    A smart self-watering planter to grow food & herbs outdoors

    2017 · flowerglossary.com · its alternatives →

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    PixFood▲177

    Take a 📸 of food & get tailored recipes powered by AI

    2018 · pixfood.com · its alternatives →

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    Seed-DB▲174

    A database of seed accelerators and their companies.

    2014 · jedchristiansen.com · its alternatives →

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    A fun way to give kudos to your teammates!

    2017 · growbot.io · its alternatives →

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    Turn a Raspberry Pi into your home cloud

    2024 · umbrel.com · its alternatives →

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    Make your home smart with Raspberry Pi

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    :bird: :game_die: Use Twitter's Search API to get random numbers - GitHub - ryanmcdermott/birdseed: :bird: Use Twitter's Search API to get random numbers

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    New Raspberry Pi, Arduino & hackable hardware projects, ever

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    The Modern Way to Grow Your Own Food (Kickstarter)

    2014 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →

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    Wow, half a year has passed since my last blog. I have to admit, during this period I was a bit disconnected from the physical AI world. I transitioned to a different team at work after their two data scientists were reassigned to other teams, and I had to ramp up quickly to take over…

    Dec 2025 · airoboticist.blog · its alternatives →

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    A step-by-step guide how to create a simple OS from scratch.

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Follow for follow? Beta for beta - early stage beta testing.

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    I have realized that a lot of people nowadays self-host services and set up home labs with mini racks. One major pain point I have come across personally is to quickly get health status from self-hosted services and machines, and have the ability to headlessly control my Raspberry Pi inside a mini rack. So It got me thinking about building a built-in GUI that users can easily add to their Raspberry Pi nodes in their (mini or full) racks or elsewhere. I have previously designed this GUI for an open source project I have been working on (called Ubo pod: github.com/ubopod) and decided to…

    2025 · getubo.com · its alternatives →

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    Get into physical computing with Docker and Raspberry Pi - alexellis/docker-blinkt-workshop

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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