Such a great idea! Do you have any plans on open-sourcing this?
Yes indeed! Feel free to check it out here https://github.com/MiniCodeMonkey/curbside
Show HN: Get notified when grocery pickup slots are available
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Re: Show HN: Get notified when grocery pickup slots are available
#12Have you stopped to think about the ethical implications of this? Could you put a warning to be mindful and only consider the service if you're high-risk or in a situation where curbside is the only safe option? I love the fact that my high-risk parents are using curbside pickup, but I find myself better fitted to wear a mask and do the groceries myself during off-peak hours. The last thing I think the world wants is…
I don't get your question. Curb-side pickup is better as having a ton of people inside small grocery stores considering all of them are not meant to handle large amounts of people attempting to keep a set distance from each-other. If curb-side pickup becomes more popular they would increase available slots by allocating more resources. What is happening right now is you have one or two managing curb-side and a ton in…
I think that is the ideal situation too. Closing down grocery stores and allowing no-touch curbside pickup (or delivery) only. I don't quite know what the economics of this is like though, and if it is a viable option across the board.
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Re: Show HN: Get notified when grocery pickup slots are available
#13Have you stopped to think about the ethical implications of this? Could you put a warning to be mindful and only consider the service if you're high-risk or in a situation where curbside is the only safe option? I love the fact that my high-risk parents are using curbside pickup, but I find myself better fitted to wear a mask and do the groceries myself during off-peak hours. The last thing I think the world wants is…
It’s a game of cat and mouse with tools like this, just like with restaurant reservations, shoe drops, ticket scalping, and anything else that’s scarce.
Do you really think it's the same?
There's a difference between the some rare sneaker drop and buying groceries as a high-risk person in a global pandemic.
Re: Show HN: Get notified when grocery pickup slots are available
#14Have you stopped to think about the ethical implications of this? Could you put a warning to be mindful and only consider the service if you're high-risk or in a situation where curbside is the only safe option? I love the fact that my high-risk parents are using curbside pickup, but I find myself better fitted to wear a mask and do the groceries myself during off-peak hours. The last thing I think the world wants is…
I don't get your question. Curb-side pickup is better as having a ton of people inside small grocery stores considering all of them are not meant to handle large amounts of people attempting to keep a set distance from each-other. If curb-side pickup becomes more popular they would increase available slots by allocating more resources. What is happening right now is you have one or two managing curb-side and a ton in…
> What should happen is grocery stores should be closed except for employees and your groceries should be delivered to you, or you pick them up curb side.
Of course that would be ideal, but scaling up a delivery service from scratch is a bit harder than keeping a store running and offering both services which distributes the load a bit.
Re: Show HN: Get notified when grocery pickup slots are available
#15Have you stopped to think about the ethical implications of this? Could you put a warning to be mindful and only consider the service if you're high-risk or in a situation where curbside is the only safe option? I love the fact that my high-risk parents are using curbside pickup, but I find myself better fitted to wear a mask and do the groceries myself during off-peak hours. The last thing I think the world wants is…
It’s a game of cat and mouse with tools like this, just like with restaurant reservations, shoe drops, ticket scalping, and anything else that’s scarce.
The difference is that the supermarkets aren't intentionally scarce and they can choose to scale up (profitable for them) or choose to offer the service only to registered customers who affirm their qualifications.
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#16This is really great! I've sent it to a couple of my friends who are immunocompromised and have been having trouble getting slots. Thank you for making this!
Awesome! That’s great to hear. Hope this can help them out.
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#17Hey, this is cool! I tried to setup a curbside pickup for my elderly parents with a local store through instacart, but after getting to the end I discovered it was for next week. Couple thoughts: 1. Could I just provide a zipcode instead of sharing my browser location? 2. Could I check stores in aggregate? I'd rather discover which local business has the MOST openings and then register an account there, rather than g…
Thanks a ton for the feedback! Hope this could be helpful for your parents. 1. We decided to use geolocation because it removes one more form field. It also makes it easier to expand to additional countries ( https://github.com/MiniCodeMonkey/curbside/issues ) we may reconsider in the future. 2. Happy to explore adding additional ways to tackle the problem. For now, we just have a simple map of stores to visualize co…
You can let the user input their coordinates or use a map picker.
Re: Show HN: Get notified when grocery pickup slots are available
#18Have you stopped to think about the ethical implications of this? Could you put a warning to be mindful and only consider the service if you're high-risk or in a situation where curbside is the only safe option? I love the fact that my high-risk parents are using curbside pickup, but I find myself better fitted to wear a mask and do the groceries myself during off-peak hours. The last thing I think the world wants is…
I don't get your question. Curb-side pickup is better as having a ton of people inside small grocery stores considering all of them are not meant to handle large amounts of people attempting to keep a set distance from each-other. If curb-side pickup becomes more popular they would increase available slots by allocating more resources. What is happening right now is you have one or two managing curb-side and a ton in…
Fair point! Realizing I haven't thought about curbside as much as only the larger grocery store chains seem to offer it (though delivery seems to be universal). Farmers market here is doing a pre-order drive-through arrangement this weekend after weeks of essentially being closed.
Re: Show HN: Get notified when grocery pickup slots are available
#19Have you stopped to think about the ethical implications of this? Could you put a warning to be mindful and only consider the service if you're high-risk or in a situation where curbside is the only safe option? I love the fact that my high-risk parents are using curbside pickup, but I find myself better fitted to wear a mask and do the groceries myself during off-peak hours. The last thing I think the world wants is…
I care about my family first though. We now grab the next Wal-Mart spot after every Wal-Mart run. We never used to go grocery shopping every 3 days, but when we can't be sure we can go on demand we make sure that at least don't have to wait more than 3 days to get something. If they had slots available all the time we would mostly do larger orders and use less slots overall.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't get your question. Curb-side pickup is better as having a ton of people inside small grocery stores considering all of them are not meant to handle large amounts of people attempting to keep a set distance from each-other. If curb-side pickup becomes more popular they would increase available slots by allocating more resources. What is happening right now is you have one or two managing curb-side and a ton in…
> What should happen is grocery stores should be closed except for employees and your groceries should be delivered to you, or you pick them up curb side. Of course that would be ideal, but scaling up a delivery service from scratch is a bit harder than keeping a store running and offering both services which distributes the load a bit.
this is not a delivery service - it's curbside pickup.