Cool! would be nice if I could select a photo I have already taken from inside the app. http://www.sipsnapp.com/ has this feature and I use it.
Show HN: Picky Pint – Scan beer lists with a photo
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#12Great, now bars will start implementing MITM attacks on their wifi routers to steer you to yesterday's flat keg.
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#13I don't have a menu handy, so I tried taking a picture of the example on your website on my monitor. The first time, it said the picture wasn't clear enough, but the second time, it's stayed hung on "Scanning now..." for over five minutes so far. Nexus 5 running Android 5.0 stock, connected to wifi.
As I was about to submit the comment, it finally finished processing, returning a list of beers that weren't in the original menu image. Not surprised, given the poor quality inherent to taking a picture of a low-res picture on a low-density LCD screen, so the only issue I see here is how long it took to process the image.
Great idea—looking forward to trying it at the pub tonight (hopefully I'll have better success there).
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#14I don't have a menu handy, so I tried taking a picture of the example on your website on my monitor. The first time, it said the picture wasn't clear enough, but the second time, it's stayed hung on "Scanning now..." for over five minutes so far. Nexus 5 running Android 5.0 stock, connected to wifi. As I was about to submit the comment, it finally finished processing, returning a list of beers that weren't in the ori…
Yeah, if you take a photo of a menu displayed on a standard monitor you tend to get a screen door effect on the photo, which lowers accuracy. It does work much better on high density monitors (and other high density tablet and phone screens), though, and of course physical menus.
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#15Pretty cool idea. I don't have a beer menu here to test with, but the search is very fast. One critique: your website doesn't explain the difference between Free and Pro. I had to go to the App Store to find that info, which took a lot longer. One suggestion: add other dimensions for sorting besides bitterness. There are a lot of things other than bitterness that distinguish different styles. One feature request: Let…
The difference is listed on their homepage, but I agree it's not super obvious. EDIT: maybe it was added just now?
Yep, added it in response to another comment, and the parent comment was posted a minute or so before the fix was sent up.
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#16I don't have a menu handy, so I tried taking a picture of the example on your website on my monitor. The first time, it said the picture wasn't clear enough, but the second time, it's stayed hung on "Scanning now..." for over five minutes so far. Nexus 5 running Android 5.0 stock, connected to wifi. As I was about to submit the comment, it finally finished processing, returning a list of beers that weren't in the ori…
My experience is similar on a Galaxy S4. The extremely long processing time lead me to believe it had locked up or was otherwise doing nothing.
Also, it managed to find a beer name when I took a picture of nothing (covered the lens).
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#17Do you integrate with Beer Advocate or Untappd for your ratings? Great idea, good luck!
BA doesn't provide an API, and they regularly go after scraper-style "API" implementations that pop up. http://www.beeradvocate.com/contact/
Also, +1 for Untappd integration. That would be amazing.
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#18Nice job & congratulations on shipping! Some brief feedback before I start field testing :-) this...
- Would love the ability to save a collection of favorites, maybe add folders or tagging?
- I often get asked to create list of recommended craft beers and so would like the ability to share these lists easily
- Your data will be sparse to start with, but I'd be interested in knowing how many other users put beers into their favorites (I find the BeerAdvocate listings a bit tedious to wade through...)
- Not sure you want to, but the professional brewers I speak to are interested in a lower-cost alternative to Untappd [0] and you might be able to build a business here?
- Maybe this is an East Coast US thing, but there's a growing trend to pair beers with cheese [1]; maybe that's too specific a request but allowing used to add notes to the beers (meta data beyond BeerAdvocate) might be useful
Good luck!
[0] https://untappd.com/business [1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/25/beer-cheese-pairing...
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#19I'd love to see ABV on the main list (instead of having to go to that beer's individual page). When I'm scanning through a menu, that's one of the primary things I look at.
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#20What are your thoughts on rolling this out to Windows Phone? A lot of us are stuck (or choose to be) on the platform.