Drip Dash is a dashboard for Gardyn hydroponic systems. I have two of them growing things in my house at all times, and the official app never quite showed me what I actually wanted to know.
the story
Classic scratch-your-own-itch project. I wanted one screen that answered “how are the plants doing”, so I started building it.
how it’s built
TypeScript and React on the front, Express and SQLite behind it. A data-source adapter keeps the dashboard honest about where readings come from: today a realistic mock, eventually the Gardyns themselves.
where it’s at
Revived (July 2026). Turns out saying “dormant” publicly was half the motivation strategy, because it worked. The revamp is spec’d and planned: a kiosk dashboard plus a break-time chore board first, then real sensor data, then an AI layer that can look at plant photos and tell me what needs doing.