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Show HN: Make your grocery list with less typing
- spihn3 9y agoHello HN, This is a simple side project I made to prepare grocery lists. Just pick the items and your shopping list appears on the right (on smartphones, you will have to scroll all the way down to get the list). You could then print, copy or e-mail the list. Tech: It is a static site built with vue.js, bootstrap. There is no database or webserver. I bought the domain name for 88 cents and am hosting it on firebase for free. Why I built this: I have trouble focussing on my side projects. My past 4 side projects never finished because they were too big or I lost interest. So, I picked a simple pain point I myself had and built this. Let me know what you guys think.
- rakoo 9y ago> My past 4 side projects never finished because they were too big or I lost interest. So, I picked a simple pain point I myself had and built this. As I don't need to do groceries that often, this is probably the biggest takeaway for me. An inspiration.
- yodon 9y agoI love that one of the baking ingredients you can put on your list is "Cake"
- spihn3 9y agoThanks, I have fixed this. Should have been cake mix :-).
- spihn3 9y agoThe site was broken for safari. I have fixed it, hopefully should work now.
- qrv3w 9y agoNice site! It would be great if you could keep track of what people Add with the "Add your own!" box, that way you include those basic things without having people type them in each time. For instance, I noticed plain Cheese and Eggs are missing and I suppose others would want those as well.
- spihn3 9y agoAgreed, I was thinking of localstorage to store those "Add your own" items. I have added cheese & eggs for now as defaults.
- snowpanda 9y agoLooks great! You should add water (bottled) :)
- spihn3 9y agoThanks, added it under beverages section for now.
- clusmore 9y agoI'm not sure if this is something you can control but the little chat box in the bottom right just says "Offline". I assumed this would allow me to enable some kind of offline capabilities, not that it indicated that the support team is currently offline.
- spihn3 9y agoOops...it actually means support is offline. Thanks for reporting it. I have changed it to a more intuitive chat icon instead of text like "Offline". I was a bit lazy to add a custom form to submit feedback, ended up using tawk app. I can understand the confusion it might have caused.
- wingerlang 9y agoMaybe make added items default selected?
- spihn3 9y agoThis is a good idea.I don't have to start over for my next time shopping. Thanks for the feedback. I will try to add this feature when time permits.
- wingerlang 9y agoThat is a good idea, however not what I actually meant. I meant that when you add a new item to the lists (by entering in the text box) it could be selected automatically - because if you add it, you probably wanted to tick it but found it was not in the list.
- spihn3 9y agoI added this feature yesterda i.e after adding new custom item its checked and in the shopping list. I talked with another user (off HN) about this yesterday, maybe it was you.
- bradknowles 9y agoHmm. "Jin" as a beverage? Did you mean the alcoholic drink known as "gin"? ;) Oh, and I suspect people might want to split non-alcoholic drinks from the alcoholic stuff. Myself, I would use the word "beverage" to cover only non-alcoholic stuff, while alcoholic drinks would go in a separate category of "alcoholic drinks".
- bradknowles 9y agoHave you considered letting people alter the order of categories? Or adding or deleting categories? For example, I would want Fruit first, then Vegetables, then Seafood, etc.... And what about saving different versions of the list with different names, so that I could have one order for one store and then a different order for a different store? Thanks!
- spihn3 9y agoThanks for the feedback. Few people have asked me to open source this and they were keen to add some features like the one you mention i.e being able to save the lists, editing categories. I will clean up the code and release it soon.
- brone2 9y agoCool type of Grocery list is the communal one on Goodneighbor Delivery