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Re: Show HN: Make your grocery list with less typing

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Post by yodon »

spihn3 wrote: post #9
qrv3w wrote: post #6

Nice site! It would be great if you could keep track of what people Add with the "Add your own!" box, that way you include those basic things without having people type them in each time. For instance, I noticed plain Cheese and Eggs are missing and I suppose others would want those as well.

Agreed, I was thinking of localstorage to store those "Add your own" items. I have added cheese & eggs for now as defaults.

Seeing all the defaults you're adding, I recommend having a way for users to remove default entries and/or ones they've added but aren't likely to need to purchase again.

Re: Show HN: Make your grocery list with less typing

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Post by spihn3 »

yodon wrote: post #11
spihn3 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agreed, I was thinking of localstorage to store those "Add your own" items. I have added cheese & eggs for now as defaults.

Seeing all the defaults you're adding, I recommend having a way for users to remove default entries and/or ones they've added but aren't likely to need to purchase again.

Yeah, there needs to be a way to save "removed" and "added" items. I will add this feature.

Re: Show HN: Make your grocery list with less typing

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Post by spihn3 »

clusmore wrote: post #13

I'm not sure if this is something you can control but the little chat box in the bottom right just says "Offline". I assumed this would allow me to enable some kind of offline capabilities, not that it indicated that the support team is currently offline.

Oops...it actually means support is offline. Thanks for reporting it. I have changed it to a more intuitive chat icon instead of text like "Offline". I was a bit lazy to add a custom form to submit feedback, ended up using tawk app. I can understand the confusion it might have caused.

Re: Show HN: Make your grocery list with less typing

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Post by bradknowles »

Hmm. "Jin" as a beverage? Did you mean the alcoholic drink known as "gin"? ;)

Oh, and I suspect people might want to split non-alcoholic drinks from the alcoholic stuff. Myself, I would use the word "beverage" to cover only non-alcoholic stuff, while alcoholic drinks would go in a separate category of "alcoholic drinks".

Re: Show HN: Make your grocery list with less typing

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Post by wingerlang »

spihn3 wrote: post #16
wingerlang wrote: post #15

Maybe make added items default selected?

This is a good idea.I don't have to start over for my next time shopping. Thanks for the feedback. I will try to add this feature when time permits.

That is a good idea, however not what I actually meant.

I meant that when you add a new item to the lists (by entering in the text box) it could be selected automatically - because if you add it, you probably wanted to tick it but found it was not in the list.

Re: Show HN: Make your grocery list with less typing

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Post by bradknowles »

Have you considered letting people alter the order of categories? Or adding or deleting categories?

For example, I would want Fruit first, then Vegetables, then Seafood, etc....

And what about saving different versions of the list with different names, so that I could have one order for one store and then a different order for a different store?

Thanks!

Re: Show HN: Make your grocery list with less typing

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Post by spihn3 »

bradknowles wrote: post #19

Have you considered letting people alter the order of categories? Or adding or deleting categories? For example, I would want Fruit first, then Vegetables, then Seafood, etc.... And what about saving different versions of the list with different names, so that I could have one order for one store and then a different order for a different store? Thanks!

Thanks for the feedback. Few people have asked me to open source this and they were keen to add some features like the one you mention i.e being able to save the lists, editing categories. I will clean up the code and release it soon.
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