Show HN: Get notified when grocery pickup slots are available

Re:Show HN: Get notified when grocery pickup slots are avail... by gullyfur on Thursday April 16, 2020 @02:58PM (#22892351)

Hey, this is cool! I tried to setup a curbside pickup for my elderly parents with a local store through instacart, but after getting to the end I discovered it was for next week. Couple thoughts:

1. Could I just provide a zipcode instead of sharing my browser location?

2. Could I check stores in aggregate? I'd rather discover which local business has the MOST openings and then register an account there, rather than getting to the end of the shopping experience and waiting.

Lastly, you have a typo "seend" in your third step.

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Re:Show HN: Get notified when grocery pickup slots are avail... by thecodemonkey on Thursday April 16, 2020 @03:20PM (#22892529)

Thanks a ton for the feedback! Hope this could be helpful for your parents.

1. We decided to use geolocation because it removes one more form field. It also makes it easier to expand to additional countries (https://github.com/MiniCodeMonkey/curbside/issues) we may reconsider in the future.

2. Happy to explore adding additional ways to tackle the problem. For now, we just have a simple map of stores to visualize coverage: https://curb.run/stores

Fixed the typo. Thanks!

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Re:Show HN: Get notified when grocery pickup slots are avail... by handedness on Thursday April 16, 2020 @04:18PM (#22893082)

Please reconsider #1.

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Re:Show HN: Get notified when grocery pickup slots are avail... by thomas on Thursday April 16, 2020 @06:03PM (#22894025)

Agreed. Not opening up location.

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Re:Show HN: Get notified when grocery pickup slots are avail... by lonelappde on Thursday April 16, 2020 @03:29PM (#22892619)

You can let the user input their coordinates or use a map picker.

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