So Many Possibilities... So Little Time

When I first thought about building an AI garden visualizer app, the full idea sounded much bigger than a weekend project: upload a garden photo, generate a transformed version, suggest plants, estimate cost, maybe save projects, maybe support users, maybe turn it into a mobile app. That is exciting, but also dangerous, because it is very easy to start building the “final architecture” before proving the core workflow. So I decided to build it in layers: first a tiny command-line prototype, then a simple Next.js app, then cloud functions and storage later.

One Goal for Each Week

For week one, the goal is only to prove the basic AI workflow with a plain JavaScript file. No frontend, login, database, nor a cloud storage. Just one image in, one AI garden concept out.…