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f
How can we create a crowdsourced app that will help to compare prices from the local kosher and major non specifically kosher stores in the area?
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I’m imagining the ability to make a shopping list and pick a few stores to compare and it gives you the difference in price between each product in the different stores and also the total difference of the whole list (sometimes it might balance out with some things being more expensive and some cheaper).
l
You will need people uploading prices and groceries will be very against it...... You could try web scraping maybe for groceries that have websites
s
It's an interesting problem. I'd love a model similar to Waze, where data is collected automatically from user behavior, but also confirmed and input by users when they want to.
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r
It is possible in theory, the problem is that the sheer number of items within each store would make this hard top scrape on a weekly basis. What I have seen is sites like eMeals manually look over sales every week and combine the sales with meal plans, then upsell those.
s
I'd love to have it go through the POS system, and incentive them to allow it
a
i wonder if any services like Paypal Honey - who already are constantly scraping - have apis then we just need the local kosher crowdsource part
r
Most kosher supermarkets online stores are run from the same platform: https://stor.ai/
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b
Someone had a website that compared all products from the Lakewood stores using that platform but it was taken down. One issue that I saw was that apparently brand items were the same item ids across stores (wise potato chips) but produce and chicken didn’t line up at all.
s
"It was taken down" I'd love to hear more about that 😂
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f
I still have access to such a site. I didn't check recently but it was still up as of a few weeks ago. It checked around 6 store in the tristate area.
g
@faint-rose-48029 which site?
m
Just joining here.
I built an app that did this, however I am somwhat reluctant to publish it.
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As well as list functionality
s
That looks very cool @miniature-kite-3997!! Can I ask why you are reluctant to publish it?
m
a) I am nervous that the stores could get upset? b) If they complain to the provider - the provider will shut down the API from being accessed outside the application frontend.
s
@miniature-kite-3997 how did you build it? Are they all using the same platform with a common API? Are their apis intentionally publicly available?
g
Most Jewish stores use the same white labeled system. I would imagine he just reverse engineered one site and applied it to all
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m
Are their apis intentionally publicly available?
I am going to assume no.
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