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Show HN: nomzsavior, a browser app to track groceries and prevent food waste

by dinduks on 9/19/13, 3:33 PM with 4 comments

  • by owenmarshall on 9/19/13, 3:42 PM

    * Handle invalid input: if I say I bought my pork on 'lol' it tells me I have NaN days to eat it.

    * I had to experimentally derive the purpose of the date field to mean "that's when it expires". No UI hint there.

    * Why won't your app let me eat something that hasn't expired? Maybe I just want to eat my pork that will never go bad because I said it expires on lol.

    * I can't figure out how I'd track things I already bought, as opposed to what I bought today. Does that even matter? I think it won't but that's based on my guess for what the date is.

    Concept is cool, at least.

    It would be nice if you could suggest & derive expiration dates -- if I buy "ground beef", maybe suggest "refrigerated ground beef", "frozen ground beef", ... and suggest an expiration date based on what the product is.

    And it would be killer if you were able to suggest recipes based on what you have/what is expiring. I'd pay for that, no joke.

  • by dinduks on 9/19/13, 4:04 PM

    If you're interested by this application, please try it on a mobile device.

    It was not written with desktop browsers in mind, which means it can behave incorrectly on them.