I freaking applied for HN with this idea and was rejected.. years ago. Called “standard pantry”
Didn't we all?
It's an obvious idea like all the others. We're 2 years from a viable implementation.
Grocy: web-based, self-hosted grocery and household management
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#132I dont see usecase even for a family of five, because this is solved with authority/responsibility and habits, and it works good enough most of the time.
However this could be useful for Airbnbs management, open-spaces with kitchen, and also that new trend of young independent people living together but sharing a kitchen. All these cases need more accountability.
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#133I started writing a similar app in 2005 using Ruby on Rails. I called it Grocs and even registered the domain name grocs.com. I dropped the ball but I'm glad to see that someone else built it! Downloading now.
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#134My wife and I have tried several systems and applications at this point. We go grocery shopping together, just us, no kids. For us, the shopping experience is important. It's got to be fast and synchronize quickly.
My favorite app is listhero. https://listhero.de Fast, simple and secure. Each list can easily be managed for adding new items, checking them off the list or recovering an item from a "recent items" (done/purchased). There's nothing too fancy here. The great feature is how fast the spa is.
But the list app is just where we share the info. It's our shared process which works best for us.
Everything on the list is grocery shopping related except for three lists: 'meals', 'pantry' and 'freezer'.
Could it be fancier? Could managing our meals automatically add items not in Pantry to our list? Maybe but those systems always seem too complicated and we've tried several (most recently 'plan to eat' which we paid an annual subscription). Getting the shopping right is paramount for us. Raw speed of the UI is the best feature of ListHero.
The Meals list is the heart of the process. We have 23 meals on there. If it's time to shop we can quickly decide on a few meals, check the pantry and freezer and then just add items we need to baking, grocery, meat, etc..., almost always by clicking an item from the 'Recent Entries' section.
If we were feeding larger groups of people with a restaurant or a college meal coop where we shared the cooking and managed volume orders I'd want something fancier that managed meals and ingredients and shopping a bit better.
But for my wife and I this relatively simple works great. Most of the recipes are in our heads. The list app helps us to manage a shared mental model. We enjoy our kitchen heartily.
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#135Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
That's a shame. Let's hope better alternatives exist and/or develop :) I did try Open Food Facts[0] which correctly identified the same product for me -- and allows anyone to enter missing products, a bit like Wikipedia. User /u/homarp mentions[1] an app which can integrate Open Food Facts with Grocy. [0] - https://world.openfoodfacts.org/ [1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22648741
There is also Food Data Central and Nutritionix
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#136This is exactly what I needed and was thinking about building a similar app. But to be really useful and automated, there's a bit long way I'm afraid. The biggest deal breaker is the time spend for the data entry and updates, leaving a pen-and-paper / notes solution still the most easy to use and just visiting local groceries and shops. I was collecting receipts and playing a bit with scanning of these, but the amoun…
If you were going to tackle the ingredient data-entry problem, what would your preferred system design be? On the other end of the system, I'm hoping to implement a way to bulk load recipes into grocy, using the open source recipe-scrapers[0] library. [0] - https://github.com/hhursev/recipe-scrapers
There are also lots of MealMaster recipes available online at sites like this: http://thehoseys.org/buster/recipes.html
Re: Grocy: web-based, self-hosted grocery and household management
#137This reminds me of the Honeywell Kitchen Computer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeywell_316#Kitchen_Computer
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#138I just remembering jinyang scanning into his smart fridge.
Re: Grocy: web-based, self-hosted grocery and household management
#139This is exactly what I needed and was thinking about building a similar app. But to be really useful and automated, there's a bit long way I'm afraid. The biggest deal breaker is the time spend for the data entry and updates, leaving a pen-and-paper / notes solution still the most easy to use and just visiting local groceries and shops. I was collecting receipts and playing a bit with scanning of these, but the amoun…
Absolutely agree with everything you've said. I had dreamed of a Libib[1] for my kitchen, but knew I would have to do all the painful data adding and it was too much of a bother. The other big challenge I never resolved was how you'd account for e.g. using 1/4 cup of flour out of a bigger volume. Or taken to its extreme, cooking oil. How do you know how much your 'splash' is? You can't predict the remaining volume wi…
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#140Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is there a link with more info about thingybase? Because this takes me immediately to a login prompt, without any details?
There’s not. I’ve been iterating on it personally without any sort of landing page to get the guts of the thing in a decent place and figure out all the workflows. In brief; with thingybase you create an account, invite family members or co-workers, then add containers and put items in them you’d like to track. You can print labels and stick them on boxes or items that you scan via QR code with your phone.
A screenshot on the homepage would be nice. It sounds interesting!