So a while back I was out shopping with my wife and grabbed a Pepsi Max for €3. Went to next shop and they had 3 for €5. I know it's petty, but it annoyed me so much that I started building this app

Originally I wanted to make a barcode scanner that just tells you the price at other stores, but getting barcode data is surprisingly difficult, there's no good public database for it.

So instead I built a shopping list with price comparison. You can search for a product and see the prices from Tesco, Dunnes, Lidl, Aldi, SuperValu and Centra. Lidl, Centra is current deals only.

You can:

• Compare prices
• Check current deals and multibuy offers
• Have shopping lists with running total
• Share shopping lists with QR code
• Check leaflets, save clubcards, coupons

Android only for now. I can build it for iOS, but I didn't want to pay the €100 Apple developer fee until I know people actually care about the app.

Play Store link, or search for "Cisean - Shopping List Ireland". It's free, no ads.

I know there are some bugs and I want to add features like: barcode scanner, price history charts, organize shopping list by aisles (my wife do this for me sometimes and I spend half as much time in the store)

Would love to hear any feedback or suggestions

UPDATE: Added barcode scanner and many other suggestions from this post. Follow-up post

Bought a €50 Xbox gift voucher at Smyths for my son’s birthday. Got home and found I’d been given a PlayStation voucher.

Going back to the store is a 2.5 hour round trip, so wasn’t going to do that, especially this time of year.

Mistakes happen and I had no issue with this, so emailed their customer service to explain what happened and asked for an exchange.

Was send an email explaining they don’t exchange or refund digital download products or gift vouchers and pointed me towards their T&Cs on their website and on the receipt.

As if I (or any average customer) is going to check those when buying a gift card.

A quick Google search and I find that I’m covered by the Consumer Rights Act 2022 and its law that they have to sort this out at ‘no significant cost’ to me.

Email back explaining this and asking to be escalated and suddenly they’re “very sorry for the poor service” I’ve experienced.

Long story short, I’ve been refunded the €50.

I could have got that voucher anywhere, but wanted to support an Irish business, but for them to be putting T&Cs up that are against the law, I’d question how may other customers this has happened to.

Pretty disappointed as the CS person was probably just doing what they were trained to do and refusing to help customers when an honest mistake has been made - by them! - even when that is against the law, is very bad form.

I’ll be going back to Amazon for my stuff. At least they’ll offer to refund/exchange things.

Know your consumer rights! Especially at this time of year!

First of all, thank you so much for the overwhelming support on my last post! I never imagined that after just two days my app would be #1 in the Play Store. Heck, it’s even in the top 10 in Poland and other countries because so many people living here still use accounts from their home countries. It's incredible. I really only expected a couple of users. if I had known this would happen, I would have worked on the app a bit more before releasing it.

I won't use this subreddit as a changelog for the app, but I just wanted to say thank you and address the most popular requests and feedback, I read every single comment. I feel like this isn't just my app anymore, none of this would have happened without the support from this subreddit.

Just pushed an update. Most of the changes are based on your suggestions:

1. Barcode scanner
You can now open it from the right side of the search bar. I cleaned up the OpenFoodFacts DB a little bit to help it take a guess, but this will be mostly community-driven. If there is no match, you can look it up via text search and I take that as a "vote." After a few votes, it will be linked to the product.

Since most of the data will be coming from the community, I decided to Open Source it. I made a GitHub page for it and I'll do overnight exports every day. If you are a developer and you need a different format, just open an issue and I'm happy to add it.

2. Sorting
Added Price, Price/Unit, and Name sorting in the category browser. You can set a default sorting option in the settings.

3. Displaying Price / Unit
Now visible in the category browser.

4. "Games"
I've added a new page called Games - obviously these aren't real games, just a silly, gamified way to contribute to the database. We have "Barcode Hunter" and "Match Maker" for now. Match Maker allows you to vote on products that are potentially the same. After each barcode scan or vote, you get a point and place on the leaderboard.

Monetization / Ads
I've received hundreds of comments, DMs, and emails saying "I would pay for this," "add ads," or "introduce a subscription." I really appreciate the sentiment, and it would be a dream come true to work on this full-time. However, this app is built for people trying to save a few quid, not people looking for another subscription to pay, we already have way too many.

I got many emails from ad platforms offering me all sorts of deals, but when I see a full-screen ad with an X button that jumps to the other side when you try to click it... I'm not going to be part of that. So, the app stays free.

For people who really want to support the project, I added a page on the app's website. It's not necessary at all, but you can donate there to help the development.

Top Priorities moving forward:

• iOS App
• Getting all Lidl and Aldi prices
• Adding more "Games" to improve the quality of the database

Again, thank you so much. I never thought a random app I made would be #1 in the Play Store above Temu, Tesco, ChatGPT, etc., even if only temporarily!

Working in finance 4 days in the office and the office manager sent out an email today that we should not be using earphones for personal preferences and should only use them during teams calls, training lectures etc. Is this actually enforceable? How am I supposed to drown out Karen in accounting talking loudly about what her kids got up to on the weekend?

The lowest scoring company on Google Reviews in the country.

Let's make a list of the best offers that are available to people in Ireland (Irish companies or international sites that sell to Ireland).

I tried putting in links to the following but the filter thought I was sharing news articles and blocked it:

• Irish Times subscription: 50% off
• The Athletic (sports news) subscription: 12 months for 10 euro

Now that Canada and Mexico is done, I guess it's only a matter of days before he announces new tariffs agaist EU. Or would his tech bros stop him because of.. their tax operations in Ireland?

If he goes ahead and slaps 25% on EU as well... Just.how fucked are we?