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Lots of interesting ideas on here! Very cool site. Here's a pair of related tweets I found: > dear coders: I need an app that will scan receipts from contract

Lots of interesting ideas on here! Very cool site. Here's a pair of related tweets I found: > dear coders: I need an app that will scan receipts from contractors, automatically pull the relevant info re: business name, type of service, date, receipt #, etc, and file it in my phone contacts with a 1 year reminder on my calendar for future maintenance calls. https://twitter.com/LDBurnett/status/1379785147294310405 https://twitter.com/LDBurnett/status/1379785147294310405 > I need an app that’ll remind me when my cards are about to expire. Cards, passport, even products. Need. https://twitter.com/newii/status/1379439739615514627 https://twitter.com/newii/status/1379439739615514627 Together these might form an interesting app idea.

jjice 5y ago
Maybe I'm old school, but this seems like something that would take upwards of five minutes to add to my calendar and wouldn't require a whole other account + login.
- throwawayboise 5y ago
  Yeah I find that calendar and a free-form note app cover pretty much everything "miscellaneous" on my phone. The only other apps I really use are maps, contacts, email, and web browser.
- TheJoeMan 5y ago
  Okay I have a legitimate question: for random things you need to do in a long timeframe (ex. Change the Air Filters in 6 months) do you add it to your calendar? Siri for example would add it for exactly 6 months to the day from now, and what if that is a Tuesday and you'd rather do it at a more convenient time? Adding it to reminders would have an enormous number of pending reminders it feels like
  - jonfw 5y ago
    As soon as it pops up on your calendar, it's now a 'to-do'. Manage that the same way you manage your other to-dos, wether that's a reminder or a sticky note or a list or whatever.
    - 0x426577617265 5y ago
      I would see myself procrastinate until it falls off my calendar.
  - aj2 5y ago
    <shameless plug> Try http://www.instanote.io http://www.instanote.io I built it to scratch an itch especially for reminders. You can snooze reminders, for an hour, a day, or a week. I snooze them all the time until I’m ready to do it.
    - hopesthoughts 5y ago
      Oh, this doesn't have a web interface? Would be epic if it did!
  - jjice 5y ago
    I personally would open up my calendar, flip six months later, and then pick a convenient time, since there is wiggle room on getting something like that done. I'd probably add it for a weekend and add a notification to go off a few days prior. In Google Calendar, it would less than a minute, based on a quick test I just did.
RileyJames 5y ago
There are so many B2B apps that will do the first one. It’s called job management, and it’s a massive product category. But none of it is as simple as ‘download this app and take a photo’ because every business is slightly different. And while your app could start so simple, and perfectly aligned with their use case, next they’ll want something else, and you’ll want more customers, so the customisation options begin. Until it’s so complicated to get it to do anything that it requires a consultant to set it up. But will they really pay for it? Because at present they’ve chosen to tweet rather than google. And google + money would have solved this already.
mrpetruccio 5y ago
> Lots of interesting ideas on here! Very cool site. > Here's a pair of related tweets I found: > > dear coders: I need an app that will scan receipts from contractors, automatically pull the relevant info re: business name, type of service, date, receipt #, etc, and file it in my phone contacts with a 1 year reminder on my calendar for future maintenance calls. > https://twitter.com/LDBurnett/status/1379785147294310405 https://twitter.com/LDBurnett/status/1379785147294310405 > > I need an app that’ll remind me when my cards are about to expire. Cards, passport, even products. Need. > https://twitter.com/newii/status/1379439739615514627 https://twitter.com/newii/status/1379439739615514627 > Together these might form an interesting app idea. > Lots of interesting ideas on here! Very cool site. > Here's a pair of related tweets I found: > > dear coders: I need an app that will scan receipts from contractors, automatically pull the relevant info re: business name, type of service, date, receipt #, etc, and file it in my phone contacts with a 1 year reminder on my calendar for future maintenance calls. > https://twitter.com/LDBurnett/status/1379785147294310405 https://twitter.com/LDBurnett/status/1379785147294310405 > > I need an app that’ll remind me when my cards are about to expire. Cards, passport, even products. Need. > https://twitter.com/newii/status/1379439739615514627 https://twitter.com/newii/status/1379439739615514627 > Together these might form an interesting app idea.
ex3lero 5y ago
That reminds me of https://grid.is/blog/your-biggest-competitor-is-a-spreadsheet https://grid.is/blog/your-biggest-competitor-is-a-spreadshee.... > I need an app that’ll remind me when my cards are about to expire. Cards, passport, even products. Need. A tiny self mailing Google App script set to run daily and hooked up to a spreadsheet with expiration dates can do the job, no need for an app. Email reports are sent in case of any runtime crashes.

jjice 5y ago

Maybe I'm old school, but this seems like something that would take upwards of five minutes to add to my calendar and wouldn't require a whole other account + login.

throwawayboise 5y ago
Yeah I find that calendar and a free-form note app cover pretty much everything "miscellaneous" on my phone. The only other apps I really use are maps, contacts, email, and web browser.
TheJoeMan 5y ago
Okay I have a legitimate question: for random things you need to do in a long timeframe (ex. Change the Air Filters in 6 months) do you add it to your calendar? Siri for example would add it for exactly 6 months to the day from now, and what if that is a Tuesday and you'd rather do it at a more convenient time? Adding it to reminders would have an enormous number of pending reminders it feels like
- jonfw 5y ago
  As soon as it pops up on your calendar, it's now a 'to-do'. Manage that the same way you manage your other to-dos, wether that's a reminder or a sticky note or a list or whatever.
  - 0x426577617265 5y ago
    I would see myself procrastinate until it falls off my calendar.
- aj2 5y ago
  <shameless plug> Try http://www.instanote.io http://www.instanote.io I built it to scratch an itch especially for reminders. You can snooze reminders, for an hour, a day, or a week. I snooze them all the time until I’m ready to do it.
  - hopesthoughts 5y ago
    Oh, this doesn't have a web interface? Would be epic if it did!
- jjice 5y ago
  I personally would open up my calendar, flip six months later, and then pick a convenient time, since there is wiggle room on getting something like that done. I'd probably add it for a weekend and add a notification to go off a few days prior. In Google Calendar, it would less than a minute, based on a quick test I just did.

RileyJames 5y ago

There are so many B2B apps that will do the first one. It’s called job management, and it’s a massive product category. But none of it is as simple as ‘download this app and take a photo’ because every business is slightly different. And while your app could start so simple, and perfectly aligned with their use case, next they’ll want something else, and you’ll want more customers, so the customisation options begin. Until it’s so complicated to get it to do anything that it requires a consultant to set it up. But will they really pay for it? Because at present they’ve chosen to tweet rather than google. And google + money would have solved this already.

mrpetruccio 5y ago

> Lots of interesting ideas on here! Very cool site. > Here's a pair of related tweets I found: > > dear coders: I need an app that will scan receipts from contractors, automatically pull the relevant info re: business name, type of service, date, receipt #, etc, and file it in my phone contacts with a 1 year reminder on my calendar for future maintenance calls. > https://twitter.com/LDBurnett/status/1379785147294310405 https://twitter.com/LDBurnett/status/1379785147294310405 > > I need an app that’ll remind me when my cards are about to expire. Cards, passport, even products. Need. > https://twitter.com/newii/status/1379439739615514627 https://twitter.com/newii/status/1379439739615514627 > Together these might form an interesting app idea. > Lots of interesting ideas on here! Very cool site. > Here's a pair of related tweets I found: > > dear coders: I need an app that will scan receipts from contractors, automatically pull the relevant info re: business name, type of service, date, receipt #, etc, and file it in my phone contacts with a 1 year reminder on my calendar for future maintenance calls. > https://twitter.com/LDBurnett/status/1379785147294310405 https://twitter.com/LDBurnett/status/1379785147294310405 > > I need an app that’ll remind me when my cards are about to expire. Cards, passport, even products. Need. > https://twitter.com/newii/status/1379439739615514627 https://twitter.com/newii/status/1379439739615514627 > Together these might form an interesting app idea.

ex3lero 5y ago

That reminds me of https://grid.is/blog/your-biggest-competitor-is-a-spreadsheet https://grid.is/blog/your-biggest-competitor-is-a-spreadshee.... > I need an app that’ll remind me when my cards are about to expire. Cards, passport, even products. Need. A tiny self mailing Google App script set to run daily and hooked up to a spreadsheet with expiration dates can do the job, no need for an app. Email reports are sent in case of any runtime crashes.