Build in public

A roadmap is more useful when progress and limits are visible.

OpenSoil is establishing the trust, identity, data, and educational foundations needed before accepting complex private field records.

Completed foundation

What is operating now

Live

Public website

Mission, founders, evidence examples, learning guides, methods, cases, policies, support, and responsive navigation.

Live

Google accounts

Verified Google login, secure opaque sessions, PostgreSQL identity records, logout, and account portal.

Live

Private message intake

Soil questions, contributor interest, support, privacy requests, validation, rate limits, and spam screening.

Live

Administrator dashboard

Allowlisted Google administration, signup reporting, private inbox, and message-status workflow.

Live

Data foundation

PostgreSQL and PostGIS schemas for identity, fields, samples, laboratories, projects, tools, forum records, and privacy boundaries.

Live

Production operations

HTTPS, DNS, loopback-only services, protected secrets, versioned releases, cache busting, and security headers.

Active work

Turn private questions into a useful community workflow.

The next meaningful product is not a bigger homepage. It is a safe path from question to structured context, response, citation, moderation, and saved learning.

Question and answer records

Planned next

Authenticated creation, drafts, visibility, tags, replies, citations, status, and ownership.

Authorization and moderation

Planned next

Per-record permissions, moderator actions, reporting, audit history, and review labels tied to defined processes.

Search and saved knowledge

Planned next

Search by topic and context, saved posts, related records, and notifications without inventing community scale.

Later phases

Build the learning loop in order.

  1. Phase 2

    Field records

    Farms, fields, seasons, tests, treatments, images, notes, costs, yields, permissions, and exports.

  2. Phase 3

    Project timelines

    Baseline, intervention, follow-up, controls, repetitions, case generation, and review.

  3. Phase 4

    Analysis

    Normalization, charts, comparable cases, statistics, maps, reports, and dataset versions.

  4. Phase 5

    AI assistance

    Source-linked extraction, organization, explanations, missing-context prompts, and transparent limits.

Known limitations

What OpenSoil does not yet do

  • • Public questions, answers, comments, and moderation are not live.
  • • Field, sample, laboratory, project, and financial record entry is not live.
  • • File uploads and object storage are not live.
  • • Automated data export, account self-deletion, and notification controls are not live.
  • • Search results and case-study counts are demonstrations, not a large active catalog.
  • • Automated encrypted database backups and tested restoration still need implementation.

How to help

Contribute a real constraint.

The most useful input is a real soil question, a field-record workflow, a privacy concern, a method correction, or a difficult example the current design fails to represent.

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