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Shelf – open-source asset management software

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Re: Shelf – open-source asset management software

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Post by tristor »

poidos wrote: post #34

Is there something like this but for “home” usecases? What’s in my pantry, how much of y do I have left in my medicine cabinet, etc.

Same question, but more focus on home electronics. I'd love to track my appliances and home lab setup better than I do today in just a spreadsheet. It'd be nice to get depreciation / warranty tracking, diagrams which show tags/position in the rack for my home lab. Basically similar to enterprise asset management just on a much smaller scale and without needing to operate a full ITIL shop + deploy enterprise scale.

I once, many moons ago, barcode asset tagged all my stuff and was scanning it into an app that could track where it was in your house on a basic 2d wireframe home, which let you report for insurance scheduling purposes. Besides just tracking generally, knowing what stuff you have that is valuable, depreciable, and could be stolen/destroyed is very useful data even for individuals.

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Post by joshstrange »

WheatMillington wrote: post #36
poidos wrote: post #34

Is there something like this but for “home” usecases? What’s in my pantry, how much of y do I have left in my medicine cabinet, etc.

As anyone who has done inventory management could tell you, the admin involved in keeping your pantry inventory up to date would massively outweigh any utility you'd get from this.

Yeah, I wrote a simple pantry manager that used both barcodes on the food items (used an api to lookup and pre-fill basic info) and then small QR codes that I added to the item (to track the individual instance), it was my "pandemic project". It was cool but not the most user friendly (unsurprising, UI/UX are not my strong suits) and it was a little tedious. It was relatively easy to write through and I enjoyed working on it. I was also tracking things like expiration with the intention to have a list of things I should focus on using first.

At the end of the day I abandoned it but the tech stack and the hardware I bought (small Dymo label printer) actually led to me building a side business on top of some of the basic ideas behind it which has grown steadily since.

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Post by 9dev »

725686 wrote: post #22

What do you guys use for managing digital assets, and by that I mean what software is installed where, what usernames/passwords are required for operating (databases, 3rd party API, etc), which versions, etc?

Notion. I have a network of related databases and knowledge base style articles, interlinked as much as possible so as to allow clicking through. This works pretty well for us.

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Post by jabroni_salad »

poidos wrote: post #34

Is there something like this but for “home” usecases? What’s in my pantry, how much of y do I have left in my medicine cabinet, etc.

It's only really good for groceries, but if you use Paprika's shopping list it will track what you have at home and subtract from it as you complete recipes.

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Post by winphone1974 »

brunoqc wrote: post #38
WheatMillington wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As anyone who has done inventory management could tell you, the admin involved in keeping your pantry inventory up to date would massively outweigh any utility you'd get from this.

Maybe it could be worth it for only some items that you always forget to use before they expire. or if it's for saving money by waiting for stuff to get on sale, maybe only for items that are really worth it.

I built this for my chest freezer years ago (including the domain chowcaster.com), which used a barcode scanner to add/remove items. It worked better than a pantry because 1. Less items and typically higher cost, 2. You usually make a trip to your freezer and 3. It's hard to know what's in there. It basically replaced the clipboard my mom still uses to track her freezer inventory.
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