SowLog: field trial logs for open agri-robots
Structured field-trial records for open-source and small farming robot teams
- Problem
- Open-source agricultural robot projects go through hardware swaps, volunteer churn, and the jump from dev platforms to full-scale field trials over months, with progress scattered across videos and forum posts rather than structured, handover-ready records.
- Solution
- A lightweight logging app for small agri-robot teams: record plot, hardware config, software version, conditions, and results per trial, with offline entry and photos, producing shareable trial reports and comparison views.
- Users
- Open-source agri-robot projects, university student teams, and tech experimenters on small farms
- MVP
- Trial entry template (plot/config/version/results); offline-first mobile entry with photos; trial comparison view; PDF summary export
- Revenue
- Free open core plus paid hosted sync and team collaboration, or annual licenses for universities
- Why now
- The open-hardware and agri-robot hobby community is growing while record-keeping still lives in spreadsheets; the niche is too vertical for big players and small enough for one developer