{"id":177,"date":"2015-04-20T02:43:10","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T00:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andreikucharavy.com\/L3Cache\/?p=177"},"modified":"2015-04-20T02:43:31","modified_gmt":"2015-04-20T00:43:31","slug":"competition-does-not-always-bring-quality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andreikucharavy.com\/L3Cache\/competition-does-not-always-bring-quality\/","title":{"rendered":"Competition does not always bring quality: case study of shopping apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The problem is simple. I would like to have an app to help me manage my shopping list for me.<\/p>\n<p>Until now I have been using AwesomeNote&#8217;s notebook filled with a lot of &#8220;todo&#8221; boxes and a separate note for each shopping session. This was kinda working ok, but could be better.<\/p>\n<p>First, I realized I had plenty of checkboxes unchecked from a previous shopping session that I still might want to be aware of when I am shopping. \u00a0What would be really cool, is that there could be an overall checkbox set where once I would have checked out something it would disappear. Until I add next time. Or even better, until it popped out itself: it shouldn&#8217;t be hard to predict what I am buying weekly or even monthly and add it automatically.<\/p>\n<p>Second, I realized that my shopping list was context-dependent. I might do most of my grocery shoppings at one place, but sometimes I need something specific from a different shop, where I don&#8217;t go that often. By the time I reach it, the note I&#8217;ve made it buried deep underneath my shopping lists. Some location-awareness could be pretty cool.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I kinda don&#8217;t like typing too much, especially if it&#8217;s the same thing. If it could do a nice autocomplete or even an intelligent UI that would save me time spend in the app, that would be pretty cool.<\/p>\n<p>Having a pretty good picture of what I wanted (location-aware shopping list app with a quick UI and predictive analytics ) I set out to find one. There are literally thousands of them all over the appstore; there should be at least one that would fit me needs, no?<\/p>\n<p>Nope. Despite all the power of google and<a href=\"http:\/\/appcrawlr.com\/ios\/remember-the-milk?_src=discover_group\" target=\"_blank\"> AppCrawler<\/a>\u00a0I am still looking for the one I want.<\/p>\n<p>TO BE CONTINUED&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The problem is simple. I would like to have an app to help me manage my shopping list for me. Until now I have been using AwesomeNote&#8217;s notebook filled with a lot of &#8220;todo&#8221; boxes and a separate note for each shopping session. This was kinda working ok, but could be better. First, I realized <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/andreikucharavy.com\/L3Cache\/competition-does-not-always-bring-quality\/\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ux","category-potential-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andreikucharavy.com\/L3Cache\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andreikucharavy.com\/L3Cache\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andreikucharavy.com\/L3Cache\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andreikucharavy.com\/L3Cache\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andreikucharavy.com\/L3Cache\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/andreikucharavy.com\/L3Cache\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179,"href":"https:\/\/andreikucharavy.com\/L3Cache\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions\/179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andreikucharavy.com\/L3Cache\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andreikucharavy.com\/L3Cache\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andreikucharavy.com\/L3Cache\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}