I've spent a few years trying to conquer the online retail space but I've come to realize that even if I did, the level of effort is disproportional to the reward, specially coming from a developer with a high wage. Thoughs? #buildinpublic#Entrepreneurship#developers
Pulled 6 pages of past orders using the website's xhr calls and stored them in a JSON then whiteboarded my ideal data structure to assess the frequency of purchases per item to use Instacart's autoorder feature. I'll use #ChatGPT to calc the frequency #buildinpublic#developers
Unfortunately my project reached a dead end since Instacart's API is not public. I requested access but until then I will find an alternative approach to solving my household shopping challenges. #buildinpublic#developers#development
Part one done. I'm successfully reading from my Alexa shopping list, now I need to connect to Instacart's API. I'll report back. #buildinpublic#development#developer
Following up with the Alexa-Instacart app, I decided to use ChatGPT to help me write the code and thogh it helped to give context, I wasted over 5 hours down the wrong path fixing the code. I found the right implementation on Alexa's github. #buildinpublic#ChatGPT#developers
Need to optimize my family life to get more time. I've been thinking on building a small app that grabs my Alexa shopping list and creates the Instacart cart for me with the items I've purchased in the past. Does anybody know if there's a solution for this already? #buildinpublic