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Re: Show HN: Unioncy – Keep an automated record of your things

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Post by lost_my_pwd »

jalfresi wrote: post #2

I like this, like a much more useful DeliciousLibrary. However, I HATE that it uses Gmail! Does Amazon not provide an API that it could use? I'd much rather tools like this used something I can control a lot better. I'm afraid that post-snowden, there is no way I'd allow any third-party software access to something as broad as my Gmail account.

Same. I would sign up and add everything right now if there were an option to simply enter items manually. A little bit of work on my part would be more preferable to opening up access to my email.

Re: Show HN: Unioncy – Keep an automated record of your things

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Post by vfbod »

icebraining wrote: post #10
vfbod wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks, that's great feedback. Google also just released a Gmail API with more fine grained scopes that we are looking at.

What about explaining to people how to set a filter that forwards their Amazon receipts to one of your addresses? Then you don't need to ask for any access, and it potentially works for most email services.

Thanks! Sure, I guess that's a good solution for people who know how to do it and are willing to spend the time.

Re: Show HN: Unioncy – Keep an automated record of your things

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Post by vfbod »

lost_my_pwd wrote: post #11
jalfresi wrote: post #2

I like this, like a much more useful DeliciousLibrary. However, I HATE that it uses Gmail! Does Amazon not provide an API that it could use? I'd much rather tools like this used something I can control a lot better. I'm afraid that post-snowden, there is no way I'd allow any third-party software access to something as broad as my Gmail account.

Same. I would sign up and add everything right now if there were an option to simply enter items manually. A little bit of work on my part would be more preferable to opening up access to my email.

You can in fact add items manually using search inside the app. Although I get your point that you are not comfortable signing up and giving permissions.

Re: Show HN: Unioncy – Keep an automated record of your things

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Post by SilkRoadie »

Congrats in launching and getting your product to this stage.

Unfortunately I do not find it too useful. I buy from a lot of places, Amazon represents perhaps 5% of what I buy so your product doesn't add much for me.

Have you considered creating an app which has a barcode scanner which populates the item database? It was my understanding that barcodes were unique to each item. Is there not a way to pull the item name from a barcode?

This seems preferable to having only Amazon or online retailers. Your current solution doesn't do much to help catalogue the hundreds of items laying around my house.

Re: Show HN: Unioncy – Keep an automated record of your things

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Post by vfbod »

SilkRoadie wrote: post #14

Congrats in launching and getting your product to this stage. Unfortunately I do not find it too useful. I buy from a lot of places, Amazon represents perhaps 5% of what I buy so your product doesn't add much for me. Have you considered creating an app which has a barcode scanner which populates the item database? It was my understanding that barcodes were unique to each item. Is there not a way to pull the item name…

Thanks for joining in. This is a fair point of course. We started with Gmail and Amazon for online purchases and would like to add support for more vendors.

For offline purchases, I agree that barcodes could be a good way to get them into the collection. There are many more ways that we would like to implement, we are just focusing and starting small.

Re: Show HN: Unioncy – Keep an automated record of your things

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Post by vfbod »

ctb_mg wrote: post #16

Like others, not interested in the gmail read access. I'll sign up if you drop the gmail requirement and simply allow me to add items manually (or forward amazon order emails to somewhere).

thanks, that's good feedback. If you are interested, register your email on the waitlist at the bottom of the landing page and we'll let you know when other ways of signing up are available.
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