Nice work and congrats on the early access! I've been working on a very similar idea (https://getbo.app) for the past year-ish and funny enough am also located in Columbus. Glad to see I'm not the only one thinking about this!
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#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's a potential objection that didn't occur to me. I think the reason why is that the vast majority of home break-ins and burglaries aren't premeditated. They are addicts seeking stuff they can quickly sell for cash or random crimes of opportunity. Not criminal masterminds or international jewel thieves. If it is a common concern I imagine the company could offer an encrypted option where the cloud data is never p…
I believe it's the availability of the information (or lack thereof) that contributes to the low rate of intentional burglary. Addicts and opportunists don't generally know ahead of time which place has what stuff worth stealing, for now. If that data was available to them somehow, they might be more choosy, and you'd also increase the type of premeditated burglary that is currently kept low by the risk/reward balanc…
correct. all it takes is one meth head telling buddies that it's the google for free electronics -- a perfect pivot for when they go public and sell the data further down the line, might as well just SaaS that part now.
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I’d be interested to see a built in OCR feature for book isbns, or games
I'm definitely considering this, especially to enhance the in-app search for finding your items quickly. I like that you mentioned book ISBNs specifically as that's not something I had considered yet. Thank you for your feedback, I'll keep it in mind going forward!
FYI, most barcode readers just “type” the keys into the keyboard buffer or HID. You could literally just have a text input box (that honors enter key) to make it barcode enabled. Of course x-reference this info with something like the “what” database and you’d have great input.
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#54Great idea, but it seems like Facebook for your personal items. Brief look at the privacy policy:
However, if necessary, we may retain your personal information for our compliance with a legal, accounting, or reporting obligation or for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific, or historical research purposes or statistical purposes.
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We may disclose personal information to:
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* our employees, contractors, and/or related entities
* our existing or potential agents or business partners
* third parties to collect and process data
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#55Nice idea, but consent a question: this web-app do home inventory, and home inventory only, another do bank transactions record and stocks and them only, another is only a webmail + webcalendar, ... ALL not integrated not easy to integrate despite with classic modern poor man's solution (many WebVM tabs open and cut&paste) witch is the very same limitation of classic modern desktop applications.
In the past, a far past, such limitations, walls, walled gardens, have not existed. An operating system in the past was a single application, with a "common layer" witch is what we can call base system + base userland and countless of variations any users, yes users, not developers, can made.
How many here think it's about time to came back to such model? Modern applications both desktop GUIs and WebUIs are like they are for commercial purpose, not by nature, Plan 9 GUIs, Xerox GUIs, LispM GUIs in different time in history were NOT like that.
Personally I try to re-create such classic desktop in Emacs and it's does work, even if in a spaghetti manner, for instance my "agenda" is not really a dedicated app (it's org-agenda, but for me it's just a collection of notes with scheduled/deadlines/todos in them + various catchall), so mails are not used via a dedicated UI isolated from the rest (I use notmuch, but accessing mails via org-mode links, like notmuch-search:tag:unread, so mails are linked in relevant notes, and those notes (org-mode/org-roam managed/accessed) "link" attachments, comprehend inventory, transactions, mails, metadata, ... all integrated and filtered in various way (plain search&narrow like org-roam-node-find, org-ql queries, ...).
Long story short: who do not know what I describe in the above paragraph, didn't you feel the missing integration in modern tools? For those who know instead: why we keep even in FLOSS land such modern/archaic model?
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
I believe it's the availability of the information (or lack thereof) that contributes to the low rate of intentional burglary. Addicts and opportunists don't generally know ahead of time which place has what stuff worth stealing, for now. If that data was available to them somehow, they might be more choosy, and you'd also increase the type of premeditated burglary that is currently kept low by the risk/reward balanc…
correct. all it takes is one meth head telling buddies that it's the google for free electronics -- a perfect pivot for when they go public and sell the data further down the line, might as well just SaaS that part now.
I don't think meth heads will be buying obscure datasets and sifting through them to find the optimal houses to burglarize.
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#57I use excel for this…
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
American Family Insurance used to offer an app for this called DreamVault ( https://appadvice.com/app/dreamvault/536354802 ). They discontinued it in 2016 shortly after I put my whole house inventory into it of course. It had enough features to make it useful but wasn't very impressive overall. There may be some perverse incentives in NOT having this service for home insurers. If you don't have a good home inventory,…
This is why I would never trust a hosted web app to do something like this. I fully expect my house to last much longer than any such company. I’d want an app I run on my computer with data that I can export to something time lasting like CSV/PDF/etc.
if the web app allows csv download, i dont see the issue. set up an automation to download a local copy every week or whatever.
the download better be secure, but that's very doable
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#59One interesting use case to me would be cataloguing features of an item you own. When you are dealing with insurance, they will reimburse you for a product of like kind and quality. For example, if you have an older consumer stand mixer that uses metal gearing instead of plastic gears (like lots of modern consumer stand mixers), then they might be forced to give you a check to buy a commercial stand mixer that does h…
This is a very interesting use case I hadn't considered. I think seeding and getting a working database of these types of attributes would be an incredibly large task, but I definitely see the value in being as specific as possible here. This may be a good opportunity for some user education on how to document their belongings, what types of attributes to note, etc. I'll keep thinking on this, thanks for your feedbac…
this can be something where SaaS model works in your favor. Allow people to manually input qualities for an item, and then when someone else inputs the same product code it suggests those qualities to them
this way you can build a community consensus on top of whatever youre able to data-mine
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#60It looks interesting. I congratulate you for making it. It will be a cold day in Hell before I tell some random corporation the detailed contents of my home which may or may not get data-leaked, sold to another company (yeah! yeah! you pinky promise to "never" do that), partners with external service providers to either sell me something I don't want, data mine what I have or use it to determine if I am a credit risk…
Databases already exist to provide enough info to target your house. For most people that don’t have million dollar paintings, the likelihood of an attack or a leak of a national database attracting more the thieves than the general property value of your house is extremely low. Also those “more expensive items” and the more general coverage limits are already in insurance company databases, and I wouldn’t bet on the…
I disagree, in part, with your conjecture, but am not in a position of authority to back up my refutation of your claims. That said, a database that knows we spent $17k on the AMEX last month doesn't know _what_ we spent those dollars on. I could be extremely fat and enjoy expensive takeout food.