Hi everyone, long time lurker but rare poster!
I've been working for a while on a little side project called Quartermaster. It's meant to be a digital "grocery price book". The idea is that it's collaborative, so as more people use it, we collectively get more information about grocery prices worldwide. My mission is to arm all consumers with the kind of home-economics knowledge that good shoppers acquire painstakingly over decades.
I only have a few hours each week to dedicate to it so it's still very simplistic and there's lots of things I'd still love to do with it, but I wanted to "show and tell", and maybe even start to solicit feedback from potential users. You can find it at
https://quartermaster.fyi.
In the interest of managing expectations, right now the main functionality is to input prices manually and then show them again later. This is still quite tedious. I'd love to be able to automatically pull in data from grocery chains, but I don't think I'll be able to convince them to give me their data without some number of actual users. Still, I personally find it useful, especially when I see a price on something and can't remember what other prices I've seen for that sort of thing in the past.
One part of it that's been confusing for other users is that products have measures (a jug of milk might contain one gallon), but sightings also can have measures for products that are not packaged (e.g. apples might be $0.99/pound).
If this project seems interesting to you, I'd love for you to login and try to use it a little bit. If it seems useful to you, please use it in good health. If not, what's missing? Any feedback you have about what would make it better is welcome (or even warnings about things that would make it worse). I still work on it actively, although like I said, slowly. The next feature I was thinking about adding is some kind of "grouping" or "categorization" mechanism, so it's easy to find prices for, say, all Coke products, or all sodas -- but I'm open to other ideas!
