This feels like booking a flight to get to my local supermarket within walking distance. I guess it appeals to a certain type but I don't even need a written list to go grocery shopping.
Grocy: web-based, self-hosted grocery and household management
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#62I freaking applied for HN with this idea and was rejected.. years ago. Called “standard pantry”
What was your revenue model?
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#63What problems are you trying to solve with respect to groceries?
I think you need to start with that and there has to be incentives built in as well as full 2 way integration with the major online grocers.
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#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
The 'Open Food Facts' and 'Open Product Data' projects could be of interest for barcodes: https://world.openfoodfacts.org/ https://product-open-data.com/ I just tested Product Open Data using the barcode from a can of Coconut Milk from my cupboard, and it returned the correct product (including a photograph) and the name of the brand and their owner. Edit: updated to add Open Food Facts, given that Open Product Data…
Yeah tried it with a variety of products. It doesn't know about enough products, makes entry unreliable. Think of utmost importance here is that the entry works very reliably, if I have to fallback to manual entry on every fifth product, that sucks
Hmm, yep. That's a problem, especially if there isn't a straightforward way to contribute missing products and corrections.
Do you know of any alternative data sources?
Edit: since writing these comments, I've learned that Product Open Data may be unmaintained[0].
[0] - https://discuss.okfn.org/t/can-we-resurrect-product-open-dat...
Re: Grocy: web-based, self-hosted grocery and household management
#65I appreciate the community effort but this thing is waaay too unfocused. Batteries, chores and a todo list?
I've been using an app called Cinnamon to handle grocery shopping. The general idea is similar: define a bunch of things you want to keep in stock in your pantry. Every two weeks before a shopping run I do a sub-five minute scan. The app groups by category, which usually helps keep it fast. Anything I'm low on swipe left and it's on the buy list.
In the grocery store, swipe left again as you buy and it's in the cart. Swipe right for 'next time.' (After a certain amount of time, anything in your cart is presumed to have moved back into the pantry, and anything in next time moves to buy list). For multiperson households, you could split the buy list construction from the acquisition.
I guess the key realization here is that data entry is simpler if you only check before planned grocery store runs, and if you can predict how much you need on hand to last between shopping runs. For toiletries its a pretty quick 'do I have an unopened one still?' For food I know some people use meal planning but I just keep stuff on hand and wing it -- spices keep for quite a while and meat freezes fine.
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#66This is a cool concept, but in addition to all of the concerns other people have voiced, I have a very specific problem: I've been trying to go "zero waste" and reduce packaging as much possible. This means there is no package to scan, I'm just buying in bulk and putting stuff into bags/jars. There's also no clear expiration date, which is actually somewhat troubling these days, but so far I haven't had bulk stuff go bad b/c I wasn't stockpiling/prepping it.
We'll see what happens during the pandemic, that's definitely thrown a wrench into my low-packaging shopping.
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah tried it with a variety of products. It doesn't know about enough products, makes entry unreliable. Think of utmost importance here is that the entry works very reliably, if I have to fallback to manual entry on every fifth product, that sucks
Hmm, yep. That's a problem, especially if there isn't a straightforward way to contribute missing products and corrections. Do you know of any alternative data sources? Edit: since writing these comments, I've learned that Product Open Data may be unmaintained[0]. [0] - https://discuss.okfn.org/t/can-we-resurrect-product-open-dat...
Yep it's unmai rained and I couldn't find any good alternatives. Which is why I put the whole grocery tracking thing on hold. Barrier here is the lack of accessible data for me
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#68This is a cool concept, but in addition to all of the concerns other people have voiced, I have a very specific problem: I've been trying to go "zero waste" and reduce packaging as much possible. This means there is no package to scan, I'm just buying in bulk and putting stuff into bags/jars. There's also no clear expiration date, which is actually somewhat troubling these days, but so far I haven't had bulk stuff go…
Then stop what you're doing for a while. Problem solved.
Re: Grocy: web-based, self-hosted grocery and household management
#69Do you ever feel like you wont have enough toilet paper for your next shit?
Introducing Grocy: easily find a missing product in your fridge,bathroom or an underground bunker. Always know what's expiring next.
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#70This is awesome, I've thought about building a home stuff crud app to streamline and minimize the stuff we buy. This gets pretty close to what I have in my head.
Is there a way to set up lists for different stores and different households? For example we live in a building with mostly retirees who are not going out. So we're doing their grocery shopping and delivering it. Managing receipts from different stores, keeping lists separate and then doing the math later to see who owes what is a pain.
It's not a long term pain, but thought I'd ask. :)