Startup Idea: Customizable Beekeeping Management Software

Startup idea to develop a comprehensive, user-friendly beekeeping management software. The software would allow beekeepers to track hive conditions, brood age, queen lineage and more, using a touchscreen interface for convenience during hive inspections.

I am a beekeeper.

There are some apps/software designed to track bees, but nothing that I really like.

Ideally I would like software that can run on a touchscreen tablet or phone with a number ranking system from a drop down list selected with a pen as I have thick gloves on while inspecting the hives.

There are a number of things I would like to track in a hive.

Hive Identifier#, hive type, Location, weather, date, humidity. Number of frames Honey Number of frames of brood Number empty frames Frame Identifier# Brood age frame contents Queen age Presence of Mites, hive beetles, wax moths, other pests

Also a Queen rearing tracker using a growth chart to track when an egg is laid by a queen, when it is transfered into a queenless hive, and when it will hatch.

Also a queen mating tracker to monitor which queens have successfully mated, and to track the lineage of these queens and the success of their offspring over multiple generations. There are a few hive tracker tools that do some of these things, but not all of them together.

I currently record the data on paper and enter it into an excel sheet.

Submitter: Jeff Weaver (view contact info)