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.
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.
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.
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?
My brother and I are about to release yet another spiritual successor to Lemmings [0]. It has similar gameplay, but more interesting items (flip gravity, portal guns, etc.) and trickier puzzles. As much as I loved Lemmings, it gets a bit tedious once you figure out the stopper / builder combo.
That's awesome that you got inspired by my picture. That hike is inspiring, probably my favorite of all time.
Thanks for the feedback too. I want to support finding nearby hikes in two ways:
1. If you go to the maps page, it should zoom you into your location and show you hikes nearby. That part works, but I also wish it zoomed out when no hikes are within your current viewport.
2. Also (and this part isn't done), I wish there was a way to filter the Discover images by location.
Feel free to add any of your local trails or update the Narrows.
A lot of the pictures up there are ones I've taken. There are others that I've pulled from flickr (after first getting permission from the photographer), for example, the landscape on http://hike.io/hikes/mount-meru, is from a flickr user.
I'm going to be looking into OSM because of comments here. I've also looked at MapBox but last time I tried the mobile web experience was basically unusable (although Google Maps isn't great either).
(Sorry, rereading what I wrote makes it sound pretty slanderous). Not sure if you'll be doubling back on this, but I thought I'd respond anyway. I was talking about the mobile web experience, specifically on Android.
I was playing with the MapBox SDK roughly a year ago and I remember having a lot of trouble at the time panning and zooming. This was on a Droid X. So gave up on it at the time, even though I thought the desktop experience was so great.
Anyway, I just tested again, and whatever I was seeing before is not there. I'll give MapBox another shot.
If it's any consolation, I'm using the metric system on the backend and plan to add the ability to change your default units. I don't want hike.io to be US-centric.
Multi-trail circuits are not really supported at the moment, but I like the idea. You could hack your way around it currently by creating a "master hike", call it Annapurna Circuit, and then link to the other sub-trails from the master.
I was hoping that distance + elevation could give a sense of the difficulty without having to create a "difficulty scale". The problem I always have with such scales is that each site is different and their definition of a hard hike is not my definition.
In terms of monetization, all I know at this point is that I want it to be freely available without ads. Beyond that, I'm flexible. A supporter badge could work. I was also thinking it would be cool if there was a way to monetize the pictures. For example, if you could order prints, a portion of the revenue would go to original photographer and hike.io.
Awesome feedback. Especially the part about making the "adding an entry" part easier, it didn't dawn on me that some of that information is redundant.
The reason I've been writing driving directions in a wall of text is because in a lot of cases, google doesn't map all of the forest roads required to get to the trailhead. There are some hikes, like http://hike.io/hikes/mount-rose, which do and in that case I include the link in the Directions header. I thought it might be nice to also include the step by step directions in case you don't have an internet connection, but you're right, it feels extraneous.
And, I'm going to have to investigate OSM, you're the second suggest that.
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.