[joshstrange]

Yeah, I wrote a simple pantry manager that used both barcodes on the food items (used an api to lookup and pre-fill basic info) and then small QR codes that I added to the item (to track the individual instance), it was my "pandemic project". It was cool but not the most user friendly (unsurprising, UI/UX are not my strong suits) and it was a little tedious. It was relatively easy to write through and I enjoyed working on it. I was also tracking things like expiration with the intention to have a list of things I should focus on using first.

At the end of the day I abandoned it but the tech stack and the hardware I bought (small Dymo label printer) actually led to me building a side business on top of some of the basic ideas behind it which has grown steadily since.