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Re: Show HN: Picky Pint – Scan beer lists with a photo

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Post by josephjrobison »

You've got to be kidding me - 5 days ago I was looking at a long beer list from random brewers at Porter Ale House in Austin and thought of this exact same idea. The rise of hipster craft brew places with constantly rotating lists and rarely listing ABV makes this absolutely necessary.

Very excited that I can stop dreaming of it existing and use your version!

Re: Show HN: Picky Pint – Scan beer lists with a photo

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Post by jsm386 »

Very cool! This is like the beer version of WineGlass (http://wineglassapp.com/)! They managed to get ratings from CellarTracker via private access to their API (like Beer Advocate they don't offer anything publicly), so from the start that had access to the largest? library of user generated wine ratings on the web.

Are you blending user ratings with the ratebeer ratings in screenshots, or keeping them separate?

Wineglass has a feature I thought was pretty neat -- letting you know whether or not the price was 'fair for a restaurant' given typical industry markups. Perhaps not as applicable to beer, but could be a cool feature. And then you could surface 'bars with the best deals on beers you'll love.'

I'm in online wine media, so not as familiar with the beer space but it seems like lots of areas for collaboration (eg Nextglass, Untapped, BeerMenus.com as a fallback for OCR fails)

P.S. I understand the need to monetize, but having used heavily/played with dozens of apps in the wine/beer/liquor space, both free and paid, its rare to see random iAds (so far Target.com, some casino game install ad, and another casino game install ad. Perhaps the revenue is worth it but feels like there are much more interesting ways to monetize (native ads in terms of featured beers/all sorts of brewery/bar partnerships) than that sort of junky ad...

Re: Show HN: Picky Pint – Scan beer lists with a photo

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Post by joshdick »

pettazz wrote: post #17
brettkc wrote: post #4

Do 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.

Yeah, if this could also tell me through Untappd whether I've had a beer before and how I rated it, that would be perfect.

I'm on a mission to try 1,000 different beers on Untappd, and this could really help with that.

Re: Show HN: Picky Pint – Scan beer lists with a photo

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Post by jsumrall »

Awesome! I just finished a project doing beer recommendations, and I wanted to use the RateBeer data but they put up a notice that they were not giving out API access anymore. We went with BreweryDB and were trying to add some ratings ourselves, which was sufficient for our project.

How did you get the use of RateBeers API?

Re: Show HN: Picky Pint – Scan beer lists with a photo

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Post by deltaecho1338 »

I was not able to find your privacy policy. Are you tracking what beers I'm looking up? Where I am? How long I spend drinking? Are you serving ads generally or are they somehow targeted to me based on my behavior? Do I get more privacy with the pro version?

You will be collecting data that will be useful to other people besides me. I don't care if statistics on all app users are sold but if you want to sell things based on my specific behavior I won't use your app.

All that said I'm excited to give it a try.

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