Thanks for the feedback.

Don't they both go hand in hand? How can it be an effective organization if it is not revenue generating?

In a capitalist world it is not often you see effective organizations that are non profits.

Maybe I am being a little naive here.

> Don’t they both go hand in hand?

No.

> How can it be an effective organization if it is not revenue generating?

Revenue is not the same as profit (return to investors).

> In a capitalist world it is not often you see effective organizations that are non profits.

In a capitalist world, it is not often that you see organizations that are effective at things other than generating profits and externalizing harms.

When you do, they generally are nonprofits.

I am not sure as well, difficult times and there doesn't seem to be a clear path forward.

I am not sure if we can create an app to fix this one...

Maybe generative AI can help, or some sort of social movement.

As I said, I'm baffled; I've been unable to conceive of a way forward towards our present goals without self-destruction.

I'm really hoping for a non-technological solution, although I know that people's minds are hard to change. I'm hoping that us people can find a way to be content with what we've already got.

Thanks for the above feedback, I greatly appreciate it. I agree on your comment regarding a shared route as opposed to individual pick ups.

The idea of a "zero waste diversion quota" sounds interesting as well.

A lot of food for thought....

Thanks for the appropedia link as well.

I have a store that sells vintage propaganda posters primarily, we have expanded into vintage travel and health over the last few years.

https://propagandaposterstore.com/

Thanks, I will definitely have a look at these options. Especially the airport one!

I had forgotten about couchsurfing,not sure my profile still works. I will give it a try. Thanks.

I have been looking on airbnb and there seems to be some good options, however a lot of them are very expensive. There are some nice hacker houses. I messaged them and I am waiting to hear back from them.

Food inventory for the ordinary home. A synced cross platform app that allows a normal home to monitor: 1)What food has been bought? 2)What the expiration date is? Warnings when food is going out of date. 3)What meals can be made based on the food “in stock”?

I hate throwing away food and often buy food I already have or that my girlfriend has bought. I have been trying to think of ways to monitor what food is at home and to reduce the amount of food wastage in our home.

I think an app that allows you to scan shopping receipts, the contents of which are automatically loaded into a database and synced across multiple apps would be very useful.

It could be monetized using the freemium model, e.g. more complex functionality the more you pay and also by integrating with online shopping engines such as instacart.

Any feedback on this greatly appreciated.

I've thought about something similar but get hung up on data entry. How do you make it not miserable to get food purchase data into the app, given that food doesn't have an RFID tag in it, and not everything (produce) has a barcode? I like the receipt idea - partner with grocery stores to print a qr-code with a machine readable list of items and (maybe) expiration dates. Having to do any kind of manual scan on each item I bring home from the store feels like too much behavior change to become part of my everyday routine. Maybe there's an opportunity to do it for institutional kitchens where inventory is required by default?

It would be fun to build the fitbit and basis integrations. Also, Randall Munroe offered a different approach: http://xkcd.com/1109/ :)

Yes, data entry is the gap. I have been thinking about that and it seems like there are a number of solutions that would allow you to read the text from a photo, vivino.com is an example of an app that does this very well with wine labels. I wonder if you could take a high quality photo of the receipt and the app would add the contents of the receipt to the db based on this? I know its not going to be seamless and may take a bit of manual work at the beginning. Partnering with a grocery store or multiple when the solution picks up traction could also simplify things significantly.

Ya, was thinking the same. He doesn't present an argument as to why they are losers?

I have been watching this since launch, I think it is a great concept. Really looking forward to seeing it develop.