I have been looking on airbnb and there seems to be some good options, however a lot of them are very expensive. There are some nice hacker houses. I messaged them and I am waiting to hear back from them.
Yes, data entry is the gap. I have been thinking about that and it seems like there are a number of solutions that would allow you to read the text from a photo, vivino.com is an example of an app that does this very well with wine labels. I wonder if you could take a high quality photo of the receipt and the app would add the contents of the receipt to the db based on this? I know its not going to be seamless and may take a bit of manual work at the beginning. Partnering with a grocery store or multiple when the solution picks up traction could also simplify things significantly.
Food inventory for the ordinary home. A synced cross platform app that allows a normal home to monitor:
1)What food has been bought?
2)What the expiration date is? Warnings when food is going out of date.
3)What meals can be made based on the food “in stock”?
I hate throwing away food and often buy food I already have or that my girlfriend has bought. I have been trying to think of ways to monitor what food is at home and to reduce the amount of food wastage in our home.
I think an app that allows you to scan shopping receipts, the contents of which are automatically loaded into a database and synced across multiple apps would be very useful.
It could be monetized using the freemium model, e.g. more complex functionality the more you pay and also by integrating with online shopping engines such as instacart.
Thanks for the feedback. I am currently working on the branding, this is definitely something which needs to be done. Good point about the photo of the poster from an angle. Will take the above on board. Thanks again!
I have been reading ecommercefuel.com and Andrew(webmaster) says you can get around the low margin by choosing a niche that requires a lot of additional information,e.g something technical and then pricing yourself higher than competitors. He argues customers will pay for the additional information and good customer service. E.g. help installing etc.
As someone who has been there and done that, would you agree with this?
Don't they both go hand in hand? How can it be an effective organization if it is not revenue generating?
In a capitalist world it is not often you see effective organizations that are non profits.
Maybe I am being a little naive here.