🌱 zonapetik

Let me be honest.

zonapetik started as a college research—offered by one of my lecturers.
At that time, I wasn’t exactly excited.

Not because of the lecturer… but because the topic was data mining.

I’ve never really liked it. Too many numbers, too many charts, too little joy.

But there was one powerful motivation:
I just wanted to graduate as soon as possible.

So I said yes.

Plot twist

Turns out, instead of fully focusing on my project, I somehow ended up helping the lecturer finish their tasks, which—surprisingly—had nothing to do with the original project scope.

So yeah, while building a weather-based agricultural system, I was also:

• fixing unrelated stuff
• explaining technical things that weren’t my job
• occasionally questioning my life choices

Very productive. For everyone except me.

Somehow… it worked

Despite all that, zonapetik still got finished.

It became a data-driven agricultural decision support system that analyzes weather data, forecasts rainfall using Holt-Winters, and generates a dynamic planting calendar instead of static dates farmers usually rely on.

Not bad for a project that started with pure survival instinct.

A friendly message for juniors 👀

If there’s one lesson here, it’s this:

Don’t just choose a project.
Choose your supervisor wisely.

A simple project with a “comfortable” lecturer can score higher
than a complex, well-built system guided by a “special character” lecturer.
Life isn’t always fair—rubrics definitely aren’t.

So… what is zonapetik?

In short:

• A weather-based planting decision system
• Uses real climate data (BMKG, NASA)
• Applies time-series forecasting
• Generates adaptive planting calendars
• Built with a clean, modular web architecture

It’s practical, scalable, and—most importantly—
proof that even a reluctant data-mining project can turn into something solid.

Would I choose this path again?

…probably not 😄
But hey, it got me closer to graduation—and that counts.