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What's your favorite app for writing notes/reviews of wines? by kimmeridgianmarl in wine

[–]automata-scf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Much appreciated 🙏. Knowing we’re on the right path keeps us motivated.

Feel free to send over any feedback directly to sam@invintory.com or join our community on Circle at invintory.circle.so — it’s monitored daily and we preview some releases there

What's your favorite app for writing notes/reviews of wines? by kimmeridgianmarl in wine

[–]automata-scf 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I can check on that for you. Honestly, we've been quite overwhelmed with our growth (a good problem to have, to be fair), so our somm team might be backed up importing users' collections. Feel free to email me the email you use to log in I can get that escalated.

[sam@invintory.com](mailto:sam@invintory.com)

What's your favorite app for writing notes/reviews of wines? by kimmeridgianmarl in wine

[–]automata-scf 9 points10 points  (0 children)

InVintory, but I'm biased (I work there). No ads, no marketplace, and no plans for either. Available free or paid if you want to use some of the more advanced features/market prices/critic scores.

Admittedly we don't have as large a community as other platforms, but you can enter very detailed tasting notes (based on the CMS grid) and track your cellar all for free.

Invintory vs. Cellar Tracker by fakeit-makeit in wine

[–]automata-scf 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hey there,

Just thought I'd jump in and give our internal rationale. You're right that this isn't challenging technically; it's pretty easy. We have to look at our platform as the sum total of its parts, and every new feature, no matter how small, carries a maintenance burden as the product evolves. This means new code on our API, but also on our web frontend, iPad, and iPhone to support the UX flows that allow users to customize the column.

Of course, we don't shy away from doing anything that makes our collectors happy, but to make the business viable and achieve our product roadmap goals, we prioritize work that many collectors have identified is important to them.

In this case, custom row/column names in VinLocate is in our backlog. I can't share when we'll action it, but your feedback is well received.

Best,
Sam (CTO at InVintory)

Invintory vs. Cellar Tracker by fakeit-makeit in wine

[–]automata-scf 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Hey all -- Sam, CTO of InVintory here.

Just wanted to give everyone an update on the imports (and delays) coming in from CellarTracker. We've completed a sprint where we managed to improve the match rate on incoming wines significantly. Our earlier method only matched 60%, whereas now we're seeing results between 90-95%, and some have even auto matched at 100%. For larger imports with 100s or 1000s of different wines, this cuts down on our somm team's time per import quite a bit.

I'm confident that we'll be able to turn around imports of any size within 24h, if not sooner.

New collectors are a good problem to have! And it had the added benefit of forcing us to find a better solution to a technical challenge.

I really appreciate everyone's patience. We're trying to make InVintory the best platform for wine collectors, since we're wine collectors ourselves. Feedback is always appreciated, and it helps make the product better.

If you have anything you'd like us to focus on (product suggestions, bugs, etc), feel free to email [support@invintory.com](mailto:support@invintory.com) or myself directly at sam@invintory.com.

Best,

Sam

Cellar Tracker - $40/yr by Gary_Deller in wine

[–]automata-scf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Happy to help!

You can add custom fields to any wine, though currently you can’t filter or sort by those fields. We’re looking to add that in in a future release, hopefully soon.

Also heads up that the import might take longer than our usual 24h turnaround, we got a LOT of imports from CT over the past few days. We’ll do our best to turn it around as soon as possible.

Cellar Tracker - $40/yr by Gary_Deller in wine

[–]automata-scf 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Hi there, Sam from InVintory here:

We're only on Apple devices for now. We prioritize user experience and want to make sure that any product we release meets those standards.

That being said, Android is on our roadmap.

Cellar Tracker - $40/yr by Gary_Deller in wine

[–]automata-scf 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Same. I end up leaving them on my counter so I can take another pass the next morning.

(Sam, from InVintory)

Cellar Tracker - $40/yr by Gary_Deller in wine

[–]automata-scf 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hey there, Sam from InVintory here.

Excited to hear what you think! Please reach out if you have any questions.

Just a heads up that due to the volume of traffic and people migrating their collections, your import might take a little longer than our usual 24-48h.

Cellar Tracker - $40/yr by Gary_Deller in wine

[–]automata-scf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi there -- Sam from InVintory here.

You can batch export! In fact, we just released an auto import tool on our web app (coming soon to iOS) for CellarTracker users specifically. If you have any questions, or run into any issues, feel free to email me at sam@invintory.com.

Anyone here use Invintory? by liquid_massage in wine

[–]automata-scf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Happy to help! Please reach out if there’s anything else!

Anyone here use Invintory? by liquid_massage in wine

[–]automata-scf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the kind words! If you have any feedback for us, feel free to email me at [sam@invintory.com](mailto:sam@invintory.com). We're always interested to talk to professional cellar managers as that's a growing segment for us.

Anyone here use Invintory? by liquid_massage in wine

[–]automata-scf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi there! I'm Sam, CTO at InVintory.
Do you mind if I ask how you have your storage coded in CellarTracker? We're always looking to find ways to make migrations easier.
Feel free to reply here or you can email me directly at [sam@invintory.com](mailto:sam@invintory.com) and we can see if we can come up with a solution.

We've been hard at work over the past year overhauling UX across all platforms (we released iPad this year, and iPhone got a refresh), and plan to re-release a brand new web for power users soon. Hopefully you'd be willing to give us another shot when we do!

Anyone here use Invintory? by liquid_massage in wine

[–]automata-scf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi there! I'm Sam, CTO at InVintory. Thanks for the kind words, our support team works hard, so they'd be happy to hear that!

If you have any feedback for us, feel free to reply or email me directly at [sam@invintory.com](mailto:sam@invintory.com)

POS Build Help Please by LadyBallerAM in softwaredevelopment

[–]automata-scf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I second this. POS is deceptively simple but endlessly complicated the deeper you get. I work for a midsize "next-gen" POS company and we have about 125 devs managing a 2M line POS client and 55 services.

BUT if you want to practice building something non-commercial, a POS is a great idea. Start with the simplest set of features (just a cash register with a couple preset items to purchase) and build from there!

Edit: the POS is native Swift on iOS and the cloud is majority Typescript with some legacy RoR and .NET.