Because we care
about plants.

Winning Red Hat motivated us to keep going, so we entered the Kyndryl Challenge and went through another round of hands-on workshops. We doubled down on understanding our audience, completed the project concept, and added even more ideas. The Kyndryl judges loved it, we shared first place with another team, and we were offered a year-long internship to start building the app.

During the year-long Kyndryl internship we slowly turned the prototype into reality. We brought in a dedicated designer, Honza Truneček, who played a key role in shaping the visual identity. We designed the final look and features of the app, worked as a team, prepared for more competitions, kept developing the product, and consulted everything with our project manager from Kyndryl.

We had already validated the technical side of the app and were actively building it. At the last minute we received an invitation to JA EXPO, and within a month we had to prepare the annual report, business model, and monetisation plan. In Prague's Harfa Gallery we presented Plantiful to thousands of visitors and collected feedback from them as well as from the category judges.

We won Best Business Pitch and finished second in the STEM category.

Another stop on the journey was the high-school track of the VUT FEKT EEICT conference. It became our biggest challenge yet—the field was stacked with great teams. We had to write a technical paper, document the algorithms, explain how we implemented the Plant.id API, and describe the entire technology stack behind the app.

A jury of academics and industry mentors awarded us third place, and their feedback helped us polish the last bugs before release.

We spent months debating what comes next. Without outside investment we couldn't compete with international teams that can burn millions before the first revenue, so we decided to give everything back to the community—completely free. Anyone can use our app as a template, learn from our mistakes, and keep shaping the vision.