Show HN: Zezti.com -- Keep track of your groceries
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Not bad, I was working on something similar a while back, but didn't really push through with it since I know pretty much everything that is in my fridge(I am very serious about food and spend a lot of time picking out ingredients).
Few points:
-I dunno who you are marketing to with the red and black color choice. You should pick a layout and color scheme that your intended users are most comfortable with.
-When I add apples, I should be given the option to drill down into the types of apples.
-I haven't poked around enough, but I can't find the button to add more items using the list format.
-Since people generally share a fridge, you should allow multiple logins that can access the same list.
-Maybe an alert when the produce is about to spoil?
-I like the recipe integration. You should add a sort filter to look for recipes that use item(s) X, show the recipes with the least amount of ingredients needed, add recipes of foods about to spoil, add diet restrictions and regional recipe preferences, make sure you have the appropriate quantities of food for the recipe.
-recommend foods and recipes based on what they have liked so far
-for the shop locally, add a feature to order groceries online. It is not very common now (I am in Austin near the WholeFoods flagship store, so its normal for me), but amazon has been testing their own service and are doing well.
-for in store purchases, you should group items by location and should tell what aisle it should be on(easier yet, just add the row description that it would be on).
-advertise certain brands that work best in a recipe, etc.
-advertise kitchen appliances/knives/etc. for sale based on their eating habits. If they go through a loaf of bread in 4 days, recommend a bread machine and bread knife.
-If someone has a food that is always purchased as soon as it runs out, have it auto fed-back to the shopping list when it is deleted from the pantry.
-Have people post their own recipes for sharing, and give them a cut of whatever products sell based on their recommendation.
Well, I didn't mean to make this many feature requests, but I did stop myself from continuing to append. If you want to spitball more stuff, just lemme know and I would be happy to help. At this point I don't have the bandwidth to pick up my project again and the next best thing is helping someone else build it and have them scratch my itch for me. ;)
Few points:
-I dunno who you are marketing to with the red and black color choice. You should pick a layout and color scheme that your intended users are most comfortable with.
-When I add apples, I should be given the option to drill down into the types of apples.
-I haven't poked around enough, but I can't find the button to add more items using the list format.
-Since people generally share a fridge, you should allow multiple logins that can access the same list.
-Maybe an alert when the produce is about to spoil?
-I like the recipe integration. You should add a sort filter to look for recipes that use item(s) X, show the recipes with the least amount of ingredients needed, add recipes of foods about to spoil, add diet restrictions and regional recipe preferences, make sure you have the appropriate quantities of food for the recipe.
-recommend foods and recipes based on what they have liked so far
-for the shop locally, add a feature to order groceries online. It is not very common now (I am in Austin near the WholeFoods flagship store, so its normal for me), but amazon has been testing their own service and are doing well.
-for in store purchases, you should group items by location and should tell what aisle it should be on(easier yet, just add the row description that it would be on).
-advertise certain brands that work best in a recipe, etc.
-advertise kitchen appliances/knives/etc. for sale based on their eating habits. If they go through a loaf of bread in 4 days, recommend a bread machine and bread knife.
-If someone has a food that is always purchased as soon as it runs out, have it auto fed-back to the shopping list when it is deleted from the pantry.
-Have people post their own recipes for sharing, and give them a cut of whatever products sell based on their recommendation.
Well, I didn't mean to make this many feature requests, but I did stop myself from continuing to append. If you want to spitball more stuff, just lemme know and I would be happy to help. At this point I don't have the bandwidth to pick up my project again and the next best thing is helping someone else build it and have them scratch my itch for me. ;)
A quick first impression:
Change the font! That's a disastrous font to use on any website. Pick something more 'standard' like Arial or Verdana.
At the conceptual level, it sounds like a great idea. But when you actually get down to executing it, it can be a pain: who has the time to buy groceries, look in the fridge, and type everything out on a website?
You know what would be awesome? Taking a picture of your fridge or grocery cabinet, and the software automatically recognizing the brands and quantity of groceries without having to fill out any forms. That, I'd pay for!
Change the font! That's a disastrous font to use on any website. Pick something more 'standard' like Arial or Verdana.
At the conceptual level, it sounds like a great idea. But when you actually get down to executing it, it can be a pain: who has the time to buy groceries, look in the fridge, and type everything out on a website?
You know what would be awesome? Taking a picture of your fridge or grocery cabinet, and the software automatically recognizing the brands and quantity of groceries without having to fill out any forms. That, I'd pay for!
Thanks for the feedback. I have heard a lot of negative things about the font -- Ill probably change it soon. I wish i could implement the picture idea, but honestly i have no idea where to even start, or if technology is advanced enough for that. If you have any idea, i would love to hear it.
With that, you are looking at advanced image recognition..you can't start off unless you at least know what you're doing.
Don't stress over too much if this thing doesn't turn out to be a success. Don't cheer too much either if it does. You're an entrepreneur, and entrepreneurs live by one rule: "On the the next one..."
Don't stress over too much if this thing doesn't turn out to be a success. Don't cheer too much either if it does. You're an entrepreneur, and entrepreneurs live by one rule: "On the the next one..."
Make a smart phone app that scans the bard codes from each item to populate the inventory. that way your users aren't faced with the task of having to manually enter each items description, a large barrier preventing usage.
I am not sure if it was the same app but I remember seeing something like this on hn before. I will use this but not unless you already have a list of groceries I can pick and put in my list. I am not going to fill a ten field form to add each item.
There actually is a wizard to add from a predefined selection of groceries. Please try it!
Ok but it's too clever and hidden. Why make me type at all? Just make it visual. Show me photos of apples, potatoes, onions, cheese etc, so that I can add them with one click.
While making this, i also learned Rails, JQuery, and JQuery Mobile. It is still a little rough, and I have heard that is certain situations, when adding an item to a list it starts looping. I have not yet been able to isolate it, but if you do, that would be hugely helpful. I hope you enjoy using this. (Sorry, the initial page load is rather slow, I'm working on it.)
P.S: There's also a mobile version at m.zezti.com