1. Mobile pic taking of a receipt - rather than upload a PDF - make it mobile first and take a pic of receipt - or even the screen on a checkout device, process that.
2. Allow for the building of a DB of products and prices. If I take a pic of my grocery receipt and process that, I want to be able to recognize the same items and prices of such over time - so if MILK shows up on all my receipts, I want to be able to start tracking the price paid for MILK over time on all receipts - same for all items on receipts. Allow me to go in the web UI and clean the data a bit if needed (if I buy MILK at two different shops, it may show up differently on the receipt, but just cleanse it to "MILK" and log the price in the timeline. [MAKE THIS THE SOCIAL COMPONENT - Connecting prices in various locales, alerts on pries just based on differentiations in receipts line item cost)
3. Build a table for all the stores I shop at, and keep the frequency. (anon obv)
4. geo-pricing. If enabled, allow for prices from receipts to be shared - nothing else. So one can see MILK is $1 in LA and $1.25 in SF, as an example (or gas prices) - allow for the only identifying data be a zipcode.
I've wanted a thing like this for a long time - but more specifically as an inflation/shrinkflation tracker.
For example, pre-pandemic there was a half-gallon carton of juice that we buy on the regular, it was $1.34 - now its $2.00. Its fake juice sugar water basically (minute maid lemonaides from walmart) - nothing changed in the pandemic to affect sugar water in a carton, but when the claim was ~8% inflation, the prices reflected in poor markets, such as walmart, were often 33%...
Economists are bad, they should feel bad.
They all lie to make it look like A) the economy is not a shell game bullshit B) to make themselves look like some savant when they are actually typically operating more on self-inflated-opinion as opposed to data.
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Anyway - I LOVE this project, but it needs the ability to get rfeceipts easier.
Here is an idea: make an email-front-end funnel for receipts:
"Would you like your receipt emailed?"
"Yes, please email it to [my_easy_to_recall_code]@ledgerbox.io"
then I can just have my receipts in my profile -and you can slurp the pricing data and start showing purchasing trends and pricing trends.
