[zakn]

Shopping for groceries. I made a website which lets my wife and I pick recipes and any "one off" items we need for the week. The code figures out which ingredients it should buy (preferring organic / sale items) and then calls the "APIs" of our local grocery store's website to make the purchase. We then just have to pick up the pre-packed groceries on our way home from work.

It costs $5 for the packing service, but it's worth it to avoid the burden of shopping. No more tedious math on which is the better deal. No getting lost trying to find avocado oil. And no lines. I wish I had done this years ago.

[nickthemagicman]

What grocery store APIs are you using?

[koonsolo]

I've been thinking about doing the same thing, but I want to automate it in such as a way that it knows what food is still unused in the house. Haven't found a solution for that yet, but maybe with smart fridges and/or image recognition we're not far off. Unless the hn crowd knows an existing solution.

[skiman10]

You could try scanning the UPC codes and saving those in a database. I guess then you would have to scan them again to remove them which could be tedious. Maybe that idea will spark some inspiration though.

[shelune]

I was trying to do the same (grocery for the office) but the store changed their "API" so there's hardly any way to interact with their catalog anymore.

Also how do you deal with the membership and payment process?

[r0b05]

This is downright brilliant!