Maybe you should look into reaching out to grocery store people and adding it. Plus in the app there's no way to report duplicates or add stores (Costco for example doesn't show up).
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Re: Show HN: InStock – like Waze, but for grocery availability
#12Nice additional feature could be to display times, when there's probability to meet least number of shoppers.
Google has estimates of this which you can see in Google Maps.
Re: Show HN: InStock – like Waze, but for grocery availability
#13it would have been somewhat would be useful if you could tie into inventory systems like brickseek, or directly from online grocers/amazon-wholefoods/instacart.
but... during this time, even those systems are unreliable so i cant imagine this being of much use as of now.
Re: Show HN: InStock – like Waze, but for grocery availability
#14So, an app to pit one's shopping list against public health?
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Crowd sourced reporting
What will motivate reports?
I'm curious what would be motivating here, too. Of all times to dilly dally in a grocery store, now's not the time. I want to get in and get out to reduce exposure time--not spend time updating an app with what I see on a shelf.
Re: Show HN: InStock – like Waze, but for grocery availability
#18So, an app to pit one's shopping list against public health?
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Apologies for the tone, I understand that it didn't fit with the guidelines. But, to me, the idea behind the app seems blatantly morally wrong.
We should not be encouraging people to either converge on the one grocery store that has the thing that everyone wants. We should not be encouraging people to go to multiple stores to get everything on our shopping list.
This is a disaster, we've got to make some concessions.
Re: Show HN: InStock – like Waze, but for grocery availability
#19Maybe you should look into reaching out to grocery store people and adding it. Plus in the app there's no way to report duplicates or add stores (Costco for example doesn't show up).
These are great suggestions.
You're right that the functionality is limited right now. Allowing people to see more stores is one of the first things we want to work on next. :)
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Crowd sourced reporting
What will motivate reports?
Probably nothing really. It will work a while for frequently out of stock items when the app has a small number of users. This replaces text messaging to let others know what's in stock.
But with many users, notifying other people will just make the store run out of stock sooner. So people will revert to texting their friends to let them know when something's in stock.