[tristenharr]

I think there is a lot of opportunity in this space. It’s rare to see this many comments speaking of the pain points here.

I recently was a co-founder of a delivery app in the CPG space, and I think this space is ripe for disruption. We were running micro-fulfillment centers and staffing delivery drivers, but I wanted to pivot into a SaaS model taking on the data-plumbing between manufacturers and retailers. It absolutely amazed me that NOBODY seemed to have even half-decent API’s.

I wish people could all just get together and decide on things like a universal barcode system. You’d think things like electronic inventory transfers would be the norm, yet we were still dealing mostly in paper receipts.

[NickFanion]

A success I've had is building datasets from the electronic data interchange (EDI) transmissions we receive. EDI is an old standard, and everyone implements it slightly differently, but Stedi (https://www.stedi.com) has made it simple for me to turn EDI into JSON. Like you said though, there are still folks using paper receipts/PDFs.