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

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Post by cabalamat »

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…

> I buy from a lot of places, Amazon represents perhaps 5% of what I buy so your product doesn't add much for me.

I too think this service, as it stands, is too tightly focussed to be of interest to me. If I want to make notes on stuff I've bought, I'd put them on my personal wiki running on my PC. The advantage of doing it that way is I can use the same system for all my notes on everything, so I don't have to remember/learn/understand lots of separate systems, each no doubt with their own foibles.

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

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Post by vfbod »

cabalamat wrote: post #21
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…

> I buy from a lot of places, Amazon represents perhaps 5% of what I buy so your product doesn't add much for me. I too think this service, as it stands, is too tightly focussed to be of interest to me. If I want to make notes on stuff I've bought, I'd put them on my personal wiki running on my PC. The advantage of doing it that way is I can use the same system for all my notes on everything , so I don't have to reme…

Thanks, your feedback is really interesting and I would like to learn more. Can I ask you why do you do keep all of this information associated with your products?

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

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Post by cabalamat »

vfbod wrote: post #23
cabalamat wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I buy from a lot of places, Amazon represents perhaps 5% of what I buy so your product doesn't add much for me. I too think this service, as it stands, is too tightly focussed to be of interest to me. If I want to make notes on stuff I've bought, I'd put them on my personal wiki running on my PC. The advantage of doing it that way is I can use the same system for all my notes on everything , so I don't have to reme…

Thanks, your feedback is really interesting and I would like to learn more. Can I ask you why do you do keep all of this information associated with your products?

I don't for everything I've bought but I do for important stuff, such as computer parts like hard disks (I'll use that info so I know what disks are in what PCs), or for motor insurance (where I will want to renew it periodically).

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

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Post by miguelrochefort »

That's an idea I meant to work on for a while. The potential is enormous.

Sorry about the paranoid people that don't want to give you access to their mails.

Add more semantics. Add other input methods (such as barcode). Add image recognition (hardest part). Add Mechanical Turk classification/identification.

Good luck.

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

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Post by harrisonpowers »

vfbod wrote: post #12
icebraining wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

If you go this route, which will bring you more customers, you should provide instructions for the major email providers.

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

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Post by plg »

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…

"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?"

--> http://delicious-monster.com

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

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Post by prawn »

The Gmail approach doesn't interest me, but a method using Amazon product lists and a search with autocomplete and images (to help me identify the products I don't know in detail) would be more useful.

Haven't tried your product as a result of the Gmail thing so I'm not sure if you already do this, but you could prompt people with things like:

What model fridge do you have? (Delete - I don't have a fridge) Washing machine Microwave etc

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