One thing that would be helpful to me is to get a list of the re-stocking times for my local stores. I know that my local City Target gets restocked at 11am every day. And that a Walgreens down the street gets restocked on Tue and Fri nights so Wed/Sat mornings are when to get in line early to get some of the tough-to-find goods. This could be crowd-sourced like the rest of the app or an appointed business owner could be verified or introduce a superuser/moderator role for people to get karma based off of verified submissions.
Show HN: InStock – like Waze, but for grocery availability
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Re: Show HN: InStock – like Waze, but for grocery availability
#52Someone should make a website that does this. No reason for this to be a native app.
There's many reasons for this to be a native app - I probably wouldn't use it unless it was one.
Re: Show HN: InStock – like Waze, but for grocery availability
#53Re: Show HN: InStock – like Waze, but for grocery availability
#54just downloaded and unfortunately there’s a bug that list the same 10 stores like 10 times. so i was scrolling forever just to get to the bottom where it told me “Unfortunately, no one knows what’s in stock there.”
I love the concept though.
Re: Show HN: InStock – like Waze, but for grocery availability
#55Or they could just do online ordering and curbside pickup. Then availability is online and updated by the in store system. And social distance is ensured
Re: Show HN: InStock – like Waze, but for grocery availability
#56How are you getting your data? Are you scraping grocery websites or relying on users to report it?
Re: Show HN: InStock – like Waze, but for grocery availability
#57Or they could just do online ordering and curbside pickup. Then availability is online and updated by the in store system. And social distance is ensured
In my country there are no available slots at any grocery chains for delivery or collection for the next three weeks.
Re: Show HN: InStock – like Waze, but for grocery availability
#58Or they could just do online ordering and curbside pickup. Then availability is online and updated by the in store system. And social distance is ensured
My local grocery stores have pretty much killed that. You might be able to get a pickup window some time 8-10 days from now, but they will straight up cancel all of the high demand items like toilet paper.
Re: Show HN: InStock – like Waze, but for grocery availability
#59My local news has done something similar with storm pins. Storm pins is an app people used to post pictures and videos of interesting weather events, and, gas and water during a hurricane.
They've enabled things like toilet paper and sanitizer in the app. It's been pretty good.
Re: Show HN: InStock – like Waze, but for grocery availability
#60Or they could just do online ordering and curbside pickup. Then availability is online and updated by the in store system. And social distance is ensured
If only this were usable. I’ve been trying for weeks now and either havent been able to get a time slot or anything actually in stock despite the website saying.