@CaptainNemo Here you go from their FB page.
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end of an era
February 1
…i still can’t believe it. After 16 years building up and running SeedFinder.eu - today is the day to step back a bit and to hand it over to its new owners 🥲🫡
wow… what a time Starting with a few hundred strains and 50 breeders as a kind of private database, it have grown to a huge resource of knowledge over the years - it has helped countless amounts of farmers to grow countless amounts of weed in that time - has connected the small and big farmers, the breeders, the seedbanks, the strains and the end-users - and everything for free! And now? There are around 30K users - every day(!) - and i’m always amazed how many people know about my small homepage everywhere in the world if i mention that i’m running that page somewhere
yeah, really, building up and running something useful as this was absolutely a pleasure!!! Starting from the scratch 16 years ago it was one of my first totally self made web projects, i’ve learned how to code and all that stuff while building it up and was running it around 10 years as a one-man-show before Christian have joined me at Tenerife to help with all that work. But while we had some time to code and install new options and functions on the page within the first years - now the main work is keeping updated with all the new strains and breeders which are popping up every day! And this is SO amazing - we always liked all the small, private seedbanks and was happy to give them visibility - but at the end its also a shitload of work every day - now we already list 27.648 cultivars on the page, made from 1524 breeders! This was around 5 strains we have listed every single day since 15 years!!! And this is just the beginning, remember, weed is still not legal in most parts of the world!!
but yeah - long story short - at the end the project got a little bit too big to run it only with 2 persons - it was time for some change! And this not only for the seedfinder - but also for me So yeah - today is finally the day where i hand over the project to some old friends from the netherlands - and the seedfinder will get a real team of professional programmers and finally will be able grow again, get much bigger, better and even more useful in the future! And me? I finally have some time again for new projects - and hell yeah - wait for it!
well… sure, its a bit sad altogether - but i’m really happy at the same time - and even a small little bit proud about what i’ve created in the last years But now… lets make it a quick goodby and not cry too much - ciao seedfinder.eu - it was a really a great time with you… Much love and i wish you all the best