Eureka 420: The smart design behind plant pots that fit through letterboxes

Eureka 420:可穿过信箱的花盆背后的智能设计

The Entrepreneurs

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2024-12-14

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Founder and designer Andrew Flynn talks about the origin for his green-thumbed venture, Potr, a smart line of origami-like plant pots that are self-watering and made from waste-materials. He discusses the product’s design and development, the challenges of its initial market launch and the brand’s impressive expansion into Japan.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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  • Andrew Flynn is the founder and designer at Potter, a smart line of flat pack self watering plant pots made from waste materials.

  • Andrew's also a lecturer in product design and mechanical engineering, skills that certainly proved invaluable when he set out to launch the business.

  • Like many of us, Andy embraced indoor gardening during lockdown, only to become somewhat frustrated by the oversized boxes, wasteful packaging and fragile pots arriving at his door.

  • This all sparked the idea for a more sustainable alternative.

  • Origami inspired plant pots that could be posted through letterboxes with a dramatically reduced carbon footprint.

  • So how do you go about raising the capital needed for a business during a global pandemic?

  • And how do you make plants self water?

  • Well, here is Andy with more on how the journey began.

  • Potter began in response to a kind of situation which happened basically during COVID So I had, you know, been growing out my urban jungle at home, which I think a lot of people did during that time period.

  • And I had ordered some traditional plant pots online.

  • Now these pots, I ordered three.