GreenWave's New Seaweed Source - July 11!
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On July 11, we're launching a new version of Seaweed Source– the first interactive, industry-driven app to coordinate kelp supply and demand.
Active seaweed farmers, hatcheries, processors, and buyers in North America can apply to create comprehensive profiles, enabling them to discover new partners, initiate forward contracts, and get real-time updates on supply or purchasing offers. Users can search for partners based on seaweed species, format, or location, and gain visibility into regional and national seaweed networks. Learn more and sign up to get notified about the launch here. Excited to see you there!
@grace_collery, thanks for posting this. Is there a way to view this market-place & directory/database of market participants without applying to use the application? Some of us are researching or working in related/adjacent business-spaces, but we don't fit neatly into the 4 options listed (sell seed, sell seaweed, process seaweed, purchase seaweed) in the application process (see image) and it'd be useful to still have access to the data.
Also, is there a programming interface ("API") for pulling any of the market data down remotely? Are there any plans for this?
Thanks for any help.
@stephen_lowery thanks for your question! Seaweed Source is intended for active businesses in the seaweed industry and at this time we are focused on hatcheries, farmers, processors, and buyers (or businesses who play multiple of these roles). The app supports companies with partnerships and the sale or purchase of kelp or kelp seed, aligning supply and demand within the network.
As we continue to build out the functionality of Seaweed Source, it's helpful to understand other potential use cases. Is there specific data you are looking for? What business space do you operate in?
I'd also recommend other databases/solutions that provide lists of seaweed operations, such as Phyconomy and the Safe Seaweed Coalition. Hope this helps and let me know if you have additional questions!
@grace_collery (for some reason I can't reply to your comment since the 'reply' button seems to be missing, so I'm replying here)
"As we continue to build out the functionality of Seaweed Source, it's helpful to understand other potential use cases. Is there specific data you are looking for? What business space do you operate in?"
For the moment, I'm researching business niches that involve providing high-quality components (and possibly software) to kelp hatchery operators, and modular kelp hatchery & bioreactor makers. To give you a more specific sense of why I'd want to have the list of hatcheries on the Seaweed Source, I would want to be able to ask them questions like
I might also want to ask kelp farmers related questions about the quality of kelp they received, downstream of the hatchery & bioreactors companies.
In general, I do see many, many other business, research & social applications for this information. It's a great projects & thanks to the Greenwave team for working on it.
@stephen_lowery thank you for the insights! Do you know about Sea Grant's Seaweed Hub? They have a list of hatcheries that you might find helpful.
@grace_collery, great thanks!
Ya, so for further clarification, the idea of having programmatic access to the Seaweed Source (or other databases), is that a person (a business, a non-profit, anyone) could very easily write some software to periodically pull down the full list of kelp hatcheries (or whatever biz segment you're interested in) and then compare that list to your own list, then (again in the software) have new hatcheries identified or potentially out-of-business/closed hatcheries marked as such. Someone might also want to be able to programmatically identify trends (the expansion of this or that market segment etc.).
All this would allow businesses to spend less time, money and energy manually digging through the various listings and directories. Especially in the current economic environment, reliable labor is super expensive but running software is super super cheap.
@stephen_lowery thanks for your question! Seaweed Source is intended for active businesses in the seaweed industry and at this time we are focused on hatcheries, farmers, processors, and buyers (or businesses who play multiple of these roles). The app supports companies with partnerships and the sale or purchase of kelp or kelp seed, aligning supply and demand within the network.
As we continue to build out the functionality of Seaweed Source, it's helpful to understand other potential use cases. Is there specific data you are looking for? What business space do you operate in?
I'd also recommend other databases/solutions that provide lists of seaweed operations, such as Phyconomy and the Safe Seaweed Coalition. Hope this helps and let me know if you have additional questions!
@grace_collery (for some reason I can't reply to your comment since the 'reply' button seems to be missing, so I'm replying here)
"As we continue to build out the functionality of Seaweed Source, it's helpful to understand other potential use cases. Is there specific data you are looking for? What business space do you operate in?"
For the moment, I'm researching business niches that involve providing high-quality components (and possibly software) to kelp hatchery operators, and modular kelp hatchery & bioreactor makers. To give you a more specific sense of why I'd want to have the list of hatcheries on the Seaweed Source, I would want to be able to ask them questions like
I might also want to ask kelp farmers related questions about the quality of kelp they received, downstream of the hatchery & bioreactors companies.
In general, I do see many, many other business, research & social applications for this information. It's a great projects & thanks to the Greenwave team for working on it.
@stephen_lowery thank you for the insights! Do you know about Sea Grant's Seaweed Hub? They have a list of hatcheries that you might find helpful.
@grace_collery, great thanks!
Ya, so for further clarification, the idea of having programmatic access to the Seaweed Source (or other databases), is that a person (a business, a non-profit, anyone) could very easily write some software to periodically pull down the full list of kelp hatcheries (or whatever biz segment you're interested in) and then compare that list to your own list, then (again in the software) have new hatcheries identified or potentially out-of-business/closed hatcheries marked as such. Someone might also want to be able to programmatically identify trends (the expansion of this or that market segment etc.).
All this would allow businesses to spend less time, money and energy manually digging through the various listings and directories. Especially in the current economic environment, reliable labor is super expensive but running software is super super cheap.