Own a piece of the grow at home craze. Growing cannabis is a becoming a very popular hobby, especially during the Covid-19 pandemic. After years of manually managing their own home growing hobbies, Nico Botti and his co-founders decided to created an app. Grow with Jane provides growers of all experience levels with the tools they need to make their hobby even more enjoyable. Produced by PodCONX https://podconx.com/guests/nico-botti Their current Crowdfunding Campaign is live on MicroVentures
Own a piece of the grow at home craze.
Growing cannabis is a becoming a very popular hobby, especially during the Covid-19 pandemic. After years of manually managing their own home growing hobbies, Nico Botti and his co-founders decided to created an app. Grow with Jane provides growers of all experience levels with the tools they need to make their hobby even more enjoyable.
https://podconx.com/guests/nico-botti
Their current Crowdfunding Campaign is live on MicroVentures
Dan Humiston: [00:00:04] From M.J. MJBulls Media, I'm Dan Humiston. And this is Cannabis Crowdfunded.
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Dan Humiston: [00:00:30] Today on Cannabis Crowdfunding, we are joined by the co-founder and CEO of Grow with Jane Nico Bodey! Nico, welcome to the show.
Nico Botti: [00:00:40] Daniel. Thank you.
Dan Humiston: [00:00:42] I'm so excited to be speaking with you. I have your micro ventures crowdfunding page in front of me, and I have so many questions for you. But talk about being at the right place at the right time. Grow with Jane is a mobile app that helps people grow Cannabis, which is exactly what we need during this Kuvin 19 pandemic. Let's start by talking about why so many people have taken up growing Cannabis at home.
Nico Botti: [00:01:09] Well, I think a lot of people were already doing it even before the pandemic. I tell a lot of people in the US, I'm from Argentina and I've traveled around the world and there is a culture in other countries about growing Cannabis and the White House's part of it. It's about having the right to produce your own medicine or a product that makes you feel well. I know a thing is just just another plant. You can grow it and take care of it right next to your tomatoes and you're not going to see a difference. The pandemic Caspian crossing a weird effect where people are realizing that, well, maybe the cost of buying we that stores is not good enough and their product is not healthy enough. And Nightengale myself. How do I go about it? And that's where we appear in people's life and try to help them.
Dan Humiston: [00:01:56] Yeah, well, I downloaded your app and we're going to talk about that in a minute, maybe explain some of the challenges that people run into.
Nico Botti: [00:02:03] Well, they don't know where to start. Depending on where you are in the world, where do you get to see them? You have all this questions about how do I make this plan ro and produce whatever I want it to produce so I can ingested and then sexually? Not a lot about it online. When you look information about how to grow Cannabis, there's a bunch of people in forums and different places like that. Yelling instructions today are aimed at maybe Kronosaurus on how to grow Cannabis, but not for regular people who have a job and when they come home, get a want to spend three hours taking care of their plants. So when they find us, they see simple guidance on how to grow Cannabis from sea to harvest. And if you want to do it extremely well, you can follow every single example and instruction and guidance, or you can just simply go healthy plan that if you are going to be able to harvest and the next time you do it, you're going to do it well and the next time you're going to do it a little bit better.
Dan Humiston: [00:03:03] It's really becomes a hobby. I mean, it really becomes a hobby. Like I said, I downloaded the app and some listeners can't see it. Maybe you can explain some of the features that you have in the App Store.
Nico Botti: [00:03:14] So let's say you want to do any new tasks, you got to get organized. And that's primarily what we do. We designed the app around. The structure of events happening in the plant are mostly weekly. So we got to make sure that when you start the app and you create your first plan, we show you the first plan you create as a nickname and you select a string if you have it. If you don't, it's fine. You place it somewhere in there inside the closet or a tent or a garage, whatever you have or outside. Once you finish that small little setup, you get immediately a calendar where you start watering the plants with specific repetition, like twice a week, three times a week. And we keep you organizing those kind of events. So the next time you open up the app, you're going to see that it's going to tell you two dates, one day or two dates, fertilizer, date. It keeps you organize. It keeps everything clear. It tries to drive you towards taking pictures as well, because there's something really powerful about seeing where you wear and where you are right now and see the progress. And that's a beautiful thing. Patting yourself in the back, but also to be able to see, well, maybe I did something wrong. And that's a good learning moment for us.
Dan Humiston: [00:04:26] Yeah. And I think, you know, growing Cannabis is kind of a solitary hobby. I bet you some of your subscribers use your app to be some part of a community to kind of feel connected with other people that are doing similar activity.
Nico Botti: [00:04:38] They are. They are really conscious about security and privacy for many reasons. But once they join, we released a place where they can share how they're growing their place. We call the reports of how do you grow your plant? It's called grow a Log. It's basically kind of like a Facebook timeline from sea to harvest. It shows everything you did to it and every picture you took. And people love looking at it. We sometimes call it with porn because you're looking at it and it's picture after picture of beautiful plants. But at the same time, if you want to grow a healthy plant, you can look at somebody that you did properly and go like, all right, maybe I can do. He's grown in a small closet and taking pictures of the planet in a bathtub. This person apparently has a small apartment. Maybe I can do it as well and have a decent yield and a good product and something I can be proud of.
Dan Humiston: [00:05:27] Know is the potential. So much more than just a growing gap. I mean, it's like a community app. I think it's such a great idea. And, you know, crowdfunding is a perfect place for you to raise money because, you know, every time somebody becomes a new partner, they're helping to spread the word and get the message out. How many people right now do you have using this app?
Nico Botti: [00:05:47] Now, I was just looking at the data. I thought you were going to ask and I know. And then I see we have four hundred and eighty people online at this moment at this mall making care of their plants in the last 28 days. We have fifty four thousand active users and it keeps growing every day.
Dan Humiston: [00:06:07] That is great. Fifty four, 480 people right now at this moment watering their plants or taking a picture of their plant. That's so cool. That is so cool. You raised one hundred and eighty thousand back in 2019 and now you're in the middle of a crowdfunding campaign.
Dan Humiston: [00:06:26] It's hosted and micro ventures. What are you going to do with the proceeds?
Nico Botti: [00:06:30] Well, we started this as a kind of like a side project. We wanted to work together. My friends and I wanted to do something and not disrupt the market. And he was either quit or Cannabis. We decided Cannabis because we're all growing Cannabis in our house. And we noticed we oriels using notebooks and whiteboards and stuff like that. And world from I.T. and using all those solutions seems not the right solution, at least. At least not the most efficient one. We weren't able to share how we were growing to each other. And it was stupid. So we designed Jane in twenty sixteen and we're launching twenty seventeen once we launch. We didn't have a budget, so up until the first 15000 active users. We didn't advertise. We didn't have any marketing budget at all. We got to Cannabis Boulder and we got one hundred eighty thousand in investments. And right now we need to raise funds. We have the subscriptions which are growing and our revenues are growing. We need to sustain the business, keep promoting our product and keep growing not only to make it sustainable, but to have the social impact where we go viral and we want to be able to reach every single Cannabis on lower all over the world.
Dan Humiston: [00:07:41] You know, you're on the right track. Like you said, 54000 people are using it already. This is going to be one of those. Why didn't I get into that when I when I had the opportunity? And, you know, we have all of Niko's in grow Jane's contact information in the show notes and also at MJBulls dot com, including the link to their micro ventures crowdfunding page. And you know what I mean. This is the part that I think is cool. It's only one hundred dollars to become a partner and grow with Jane. I think it's very generous, Nico.
Nico Botti: [00:08:13] I think it's a good deal. Michael Ventures has been wonderful. Well, we had a great relationship with them. I love their funding platform. It's been really interesting to not only start the process and start asking ourselves the questions that they need for us to feel the platform. I know it sounds weird, but the same thing happened to us when we got into the business accelerator. We had to fill all this information about who we are and what we believe in and where we stand. And that makes you question some things. And when we got into micro ventures, we had to do it again. And he painted a clear picture of now we're in a better place and we're going to be in a better place next month, in the next month and the next month up until we become the standard of Cannabis homegrown, luckily, with the help of people of our crowdfunding campaign.
Dan Humiston: [00:09:00] Well, I'm sure that will happen. And I guess check out their page on Micro Ventures. You're going to be really impressed because it's got everything, all the information you need. Nico, we just wish you the best here from the show. Appreciate you being on the show. And just keep us posted. Let us know how this goes.
Nico Botti: [00:09:17] Thank you man. I'll keep you posted. Good. Good luck.
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