๐ Challenging to become a new beekeeper
Beekeeping is a vast knowledge area that is hard to gain at the beginning without proper education, keep up to date of.
If beekeeping is a hobby and a seasonal activity, this knowledge can be forgotten over time.
So as a solution we need ways to assist beekeepers. Community, knowledge base, advises, reviews etc.
For a regular person, that wants to become a beekeeper, its challenging to get started. He needs
- education
- practice
- tooling
- hive construction
- time & effort
- community to keep learning
Beekeepers can have common workshops, but its hard to observe small details of particular colony with all of the buzzing, wearing a suit:
source - https://x.com/KilbarchanBees/status/1792239360659665097
Suggested solutionsโ
What we can do is ease the part with the hive and lowering learning curve, tapping into educational part
- Position Robotic Beehive as a new and shiny, better and easier alternative to traditional hives ๐. This is Marketing area
- Build into web-app community features:
- Build into Web-app educational mechanisms and features, such as Beekeeping advice with LLM, Product onboarding videos & UI
- Build community / educational material in Academy - maybe a separate portal for knowledge sharing