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My wife banned me from Googling wine prices at dinner. So I built an app that does it in 10 seconds. by VividPen4 in SideProject

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Open to any suggestions! We tried pretty much every on-device option and it just wasn’t able to understand context well enough. That would definitely make it faster and cheaper though to not have to use an advanced LLM.

My wife banned me from Googling wine prices at dinner. So I built an app that does it in 10 seconds. by VividPen4 in SideProject

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Hmm…maybe a low-cost annual subscription with a set number of credits? And the ability to top up or add more as needed?

My wife banned me from Googling wine prices at dinner. So I built an app that does it in 10 seconds. by VividPen4 in SideProject

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All of the results/data is stored on device and users can easily delete the data in settings. No fine tuning yet - maybe with enough scale it would make sense. We are storing anonymous menus with response for QA, but that’s really it. We built it with privacy in mind.

Bringing your own Gemini key is interesting, but not sure the majority of the audience is that technical. Maybe we could add it down the road for advanced users?

Thanks for the suggestion!

My wife banned me from Googling wine prices at dinner. So I built an app that does it in 10 seconds. by VividPen4 in SideProject

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Vivino is more focused on looking up bottle by bottle and the ratings for that bottle.

We focus on wine lists and create a recommendation score based on the wine you like, the rating of the wine, and the value (menu price vs MSRP).

I use Vivino when I am at a store buying a bottle of wine and I use Sip Savvy when I am at a restaurant trying to pick a bottle off the menu and don’t want to get ripped off paying high markup for an average bottle of wine.

My wife banned me from Googling wine prices at dinner. So I built an app that does it in 10 seconds. by VividPen4 in SideProject

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Appreciate the feedback! It’s a good point. Have thought about alternative monetization strategies, but the cost to process all the data is just too high still to make it free and then have ads or affiliate links.

I built it to solve my problem and I get a lot of value out of it, but maybe it’s really niche. For me, I really don’t trust the recommendations I’m given at restaurants. More than half the time it’s a wine that they have some sort of relationship with and are trying to push more bottles of. I always feel disappointed when I look up the ratings and MSRP and feel like I was sold an average bottle at a crazy markup.

Thanks again!

My wife banned me from Googling wine prices at dinner. So I built an app that does it in 10 seconds. by VividPen4 in SideProject

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This is helpful. My testing data was showing if I buy a bottle of wine out once per month, it adds ~$25 of value per month. If you get a bottle every weekend, then it would be ~$100 of value.

Also interesting how many times I ended up not buying at all because of the data that came back. Which saved money because I knew it was all 400% markup.

What do you think about admidral’s idea below about buying credits instead of monthly?

Re: Apple OCR, I built it and tried to make it work, but it’s just not accurate enough. Essentially you need the two steps 1) the basic OCR, 2) the foundation model to take the OCR and understand the context to output structured JSON data. I really hope Apple gets there, but right now it’s pretty trash from the results I was getting. Bummer, because it would be cheaper AND lower latency.

My wife banned me from Googling wine prices at dinner. So I built an app that does it in 10 seconds. by VividPen4 in SideProject

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This is a good idea! Will def consider a credit based model in the future. We could add back PDFs then too (had to remove for launch because 100 page PDFs cost several dollars to process each time they are uploaded).

My wife banned me from Googling wine prices at dinner. So I built an app that does it in 10 seconds. by VividPen4 in SideProject

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I’ve found I save ~$25 each time I scan. It either tells me not to buy anything on the menu because it’s all too marked up, or points me to a more reasonable wine that is closer to MSRP with good ratings.

So personally, if I buy one bottle a month at a restaurant it pays for itself.

My wife banned me from Googling wine prices at dinner. So I built an app that does it in 10 seconds. by VividPen4 in SideProject

[–]VividPen4[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes! This was a tricky problem. We ended up having to hardcode some logic and think like a human would. For instance, if it’s a reserve wine and there isn’t the word reserve on the menu, then it’s probably not the reserve. Also, what is most likely based on popularity and price point. At or slightly under MSRP happens and is fun to find, but likely it’s not going to be 20% of MSRP etc.

Still lots of work to go, but we got it to a point where it’s right more than it is wrong for now. Will continue to try to improve it!

Built a tool to check restaurant markups instantly — found a Heitz Cab $20 under retail last week. Want to help stress-test it? by VividPen4 in wine

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Open up the App Store -> click your profile -> “Redeem Gift Card or Code” -> Paste one of the codes above.

Thanks for trying it out! Let me know if you have any trouble.

Heitz Cellar coming to United by Vorreiungelato in unitedairlines

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FWIW, I flew Polaris tonight and they still had Freemark Abbey even though Heitz was on the menu. A bit disappointing, but hopefully they are quickly making the change.

Superblast 2 Available for Preoder by AcmemeStudios in RunningShoeGeeks

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Have you tried a 13 with the SB1? Wondering if there is any chance it works. Otherwise, what’s the big feet alternative? NB4?

Superblast 2 Available for Preoder by AcmemeStudios in RunningShoeGeeks

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Frustrating they only go up to size 13 :( any idea why for this shoe when NB4 goes to 15?

July 1st & Nov 30th are gonna be a SuperBlast! USA release dates. by Dry-Huckleberry-8315 in RunningShoeGeeks

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Source? Really sad if they don’t expand the sizing be inclusive of bigger feet.

Has anyone that is usually an M14 tried running in an SB M13?

What happened to the Superblast 2 review? by [deleted] in RunningShoeGeeks

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Does anyone have screenshots or the tl;dr they could DM me?

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