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Indigene

A browser-based native-plant finder tailored to your exact location.

At a glance:
First seen:2026-08-07
Last seen:2026-08-07
Times seen:1
Website:indigene.app

The short version

A browser-based native-plant finder tailored to your exact location.

Why it caught our attention

A commenter found its local recommendations useful and praised its explanatory diagrams.

Where it surfaced on Hacker News

2026-08-07

Wow, this is a lovely tool, and it's clearly built with a lot of your own knowledge! I'm in New England and this has some great recs for my land. One slight piece of feedback: it's pretty clear a lot of the text was output of AI. IME (and just _my_ E, of course), this detracts somewhat from the authority of the page, as it makes it seem more like it just came from a conversation with Claude, rather than from your knowledge filtered through building an app. Might be worth doing a couple of passes to tighten up and human-ize it a bit :). (since it's open source, I suppose I could always PR myself if you'd be open to it)

nja · recommendation

Direct HN comment

You've done a great job with the "how big does it get"/"what will it look like" SVG diagrams, those are incredibly helpful. https://indigene.app/plants/symphyotrichum-subspicatum https://indigene.app/plants/juncus-patens Very helpful for choosing plants.

lelandbatey · recommendation

Direct HN comment

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