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Awesome intentions behind the idea, but I've got to be realistic: how on earth are you going to motivate enough people to report on availability? I'm a huge fan of crowdsourcing, but I'm having a hard time seeing how the math works out even remotely here. It's very, very different from Waze in this aspect.
Of course it requires a critical mass of people reporting before it becomes widely useful, and thinking cynically, I could see people "InStock-bombing" their local store - saying it's out of everything - in hopes of driving people away and keeping it for themselves. But if you've solved both of those problems and/or found them not to be problems, I think this could be really helpful Edit: Also, I just tried to search…
Regarding the app store name, thanks for that feedback. We couldn't use InStock unfortunately since it was already taken, but we'll definitely think about this.
Regarding the store search results, we are using an api for this and this is quickly floating to the top of our backlog as something to work on for the next release. Thanks for the feedback on this as well, as it helps us prioritize the things that really matter to people. :)
Someone should make a website that does this. No reason for this to be a native app.
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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.
Would be great if you could lease out this platform for other in demand assets or services that need crowd sourcing info.
Someone should make a website that does this. No reason for this to be a native app.
And we're happy that it exists. :) Hopefully, more people working on this will mean people spent less time exposed at grocery stores.
FWIW, we may pursue a web version of the app, but we do have some feature ideas that could be difficult to implement as a web app, so we'll have to see. :)
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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.
At the same time, we should also avoid people going from store to store until they find a store that has what they are looking for. Which this helps with.
Someone should make a website that does this. No reason for this to be a native app.
Turns out this exists: https://www.instok.org/ And we're happy that it exists. :) Hopefully, more people working on this will mean people spent less time exposed at grocery stores. FWIW, we may pursue a web version of the app, but we do have some feature ideas that could be difficult to implement as a web app, so we'll have to see. :)