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Congrats in launching and getting your product to this stage.

Unfortunately I do not find it too useful. I buy from a lot of places, Amazon represents perhaps 5% of what I buy so your product doesn't add much for me.

Have you considered creating an app which has a barcode scanner which populates the item database? It was my understanding that barcodes were unique to each item. Is there not a way to pull the item name from a barcode?

This seems preferable to having only Amazon or online retailers. Your current solution doesn't do much to help catalogue the hundreds of items laying around my house.

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> I buy from a lot of places, Amazon represents perhaps 5% of what I buy so your product doesn't add much for me.

I too think this service, as it stands, is too tightly focussed to be of interest to me. If I want to make notes on stuff I've bought, I'd put them on my personal wiki running on my PC. The advantage of doing it that way is I can use the same system for all my notes on everything, so I don't have to remember/learn/understand lots of separate systems, each no doubt with their own foibles.

Thanks, your feedback is really interesting and I would like to learn more. Can I ask you why do you do keep all of this information associated with your products?

I don't for everything I've bought but I do for important stuff, such as computer parts like hard disks (I'll use that info so I know what disks are in what PCs), or for motor insurance (where I will want to renew it periodically).

thanks, that's helpful!

Thanks for joining in. This is a fair point of course. We started with Gmail and Amazon for online purchases and would like to add support for more vendors.

For offline purchases, I agree that barcodes could be a good way to get them into the collection. There are many more ways that we would like to implement, we are just focusing and starting small.

"Have you considered creating an app which has a barcode scanner which populates the item database? It was my understanding that barcodes were unique to each item. Is there not a way to pull the item name from a barcode?"

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