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Re: Grocy: web-based, self-hosted grocery and household management

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Post by geniium »

Am wondering if there are people that are going to use that for more than a week-end. I mean, it's great to know what you have, but in real life, this is just not maintainable.

Not too mention the amount of features.

And the design seems like 10 years old.

Sorry, dont' want to be rude. But... I'll pass.

I'll come back when every single pasta am eating will be automatically tracked and re-ordered by a camera "à la" Amazon checkout-free store. Or when everyone in the house will have a chip in the throat and know everything we consume in the house.

Re: Grocy: web-based, self-hosted grocery and household management

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Post by davidwparker »

tucosan wrote: post #58

I have been contemplating to build a solution based on an rpi with infrared hand scanner and a touch display attached to our fridge. Now, I use a combination of Todoist, IFTT and google home. "Hey Google, groceries, add Milk". Done. Perfect while cooking. No phone, scanner or any other input device needed.

Our family does the same, but with Google Home + Google Keep. Shared Costco List, Amazon List, Home depot list, and Grocery list between me and spouse. "Hey Google, add Milk to the Shopping List" "Hey Google, add Eggs to the Costco List" No need for third party integrations too.

Re: Grocy: web-based, self-hosted grocery and household management

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Post by wharfjumper »

Wow I'm so happy to have found this. Have you considered clubs, restaurants, cafes etc as a target market? If you wanted to start earning some revenue to host it I think there could be an opportunity more so than home users.

We had started down the track of building a basic version of this for our ski club using MS "Power Apps". Our basic process is: 1. Pre-season: estimate requirements based on previous years and do a few large orders with various suppliers for delivery to coincide with the annual food lift (we can't drive all the way to our club). Primarily this is meat and non perishables such as tinned/packaged items, toileteries and cleaning products. 2. Every few days during the season: perform a stock take of what's on-hand in the club. Send to the catering officer. 3. Catering officer orders according to his/her assessment of requirements. Mainly this will be perishables such as fruit/veges, eggs, bread, milk but later in the season may include other items 4. Items are delivered to common stock room and carried up the mountain by club members. Items are checked off the order list provided by the catering officer and added to various storage areas (fridges/freezers, store room, kitchen pantry etc).

Based on a quick run through the demo system I think grocy will meet our requirements for managing consumables.

Additionally club members staying on a particular night are assigned duties by the lodge leader e.g. breakfast dishes, vegetable prep, cooking dinner. We may be able to use the "Chores" function to help with that.

Personally for home use I would not use this because it would not be practical for our family.

Regarding an additional feature: I would recommend looking at Cozi which we use for a shared family calendar which is really valuable for us. I imagine it would be fairly trivial to add that feature to Grocy.

I'll let you know how we got on with the club. Thanks and hope that helps.

Re: Grocy: web-based, self-hosted grocery and household management

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Post by cheez »

six2seven wrote: post #26

This is exactly what I needed and was thinking about building a similar app. But to be really useful and automated, there's a bit long way I'm afraid. The biggest deal breaker is the time spend for the data entry and updates, leaving a pen-and-paper / notes solution still the most easy to use and just visiting local groceries and shops. I was collecting receipts and playing a bit with scanning of these, but the amoun…

I would be OK if we can take a receipt, or an order email, dump it into the system and it takes best guesses. For automation, at least.

Re: Grocy: web-based, self-hosted grocery and household management

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Post by MiroF »

johnchristopher wrote: post #33
sbuttgereit wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You've hit exactly the downfall. I've always liked the idea of this sort of thing, but the benefits of using something like this almost never outweigh the costs as compared to just eyeballing the pantry and winging the meal planning on short timescales. The system starts to become the point of the effort rather than just a tool to better achieve household goals. Unless you're dealing with a substantial household or s…

> I've always liked the idea of this sort of thing, but the benefits of using something like this almost never outweigh the costs as compared to just eyeballing the pantry and winging the meal planning on short timescales. The system starts to become the point of the effort rather than just a tool to better achieve household goals. Sounds a bit like GTD and other systems :/.

I think that GTD can actually eliminate overhead, but honestly it all depends on how good the ad-hoc system you are coming from was.

Re: Grocy: web-based, self-hosted grocery and household management

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Post by oxymoran »

NamTaf wrote: post #30
six2seven wrote: post #26

This is exactly what I needed and was thinking about building a similar app. But to be really useful and automated, there's a bit long way I'm afraid. The biggest deal breaker is the time spend for the data entry and updates, leaving a pen-and-paper / notes solution still the most easy to use and just visiting local groceries and shops. I was collecting receipts and playing a bit with scanning of these, but the amoun…

Absolutely agree with everything you've said. I had dreamed of a Libib[1] for my kitchen, but knew I would have to do all the painful data adding and it was too much of a bother. The other big challenge I never resolved was how you'd account for e.g. using 1/4 cup of flour out of a bigger volume. Or taken to its extreme, cooking oil. How do you know how much your 'splash' is? You can't predict the remaining volume wi…

For items like oil and flour or other staples, maybe the best option would be to track and learn how often you are buying those items and have it added to your list when the time is approaching.

I think the key is the meal planning. The recipes need to bulk manage the inventories and list as meals are prepared and upcoming. The recipes would need to be cleaned up and normalized.

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