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		<description><![CDATA[Announcing Costpad!
It is a purchases log service that I wanted to develop as a &#8220;supermarket&#8221; companion, but it can be used for any kind of purchases.
The basic philosophy behind it is: &#8220;By logging your purchases, you keep a track of your expenditures and at the same time you inform the community of the price of [...]]]></description>
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<p>It is a purchases log service that I wanted to develop as a &#8220;supermarket&#8221; companion, but it can be used for any kind of purchases.</p>
<p>The basic philosophy behind it is: &#8220;By logging your purchases, you keep a track of your expenditures and at the same time you inform the community of the price of the products you bought&#8221;.</p>
<p>The site is in alpha stage, but in a minimum useful condition (my girlfriend and I use it daily).</p>
<p>As all community-based sites, the &#8220;chicken-and-egg&#8221; problem exists: The site&#8217;s value increases when users use it, but users use it only after it has gained enough value&#8230; For now, the database is small and contains only products/shops found near me, in Greece ;), but I hope I have made it easy enough to add more content.</p>
<p>Features:<br />
- Submit/Log your purchases<br />
- View your basic monthly/overall spending statistics<br />
- Separate accounts<br />
- Shop map location<br />
- View product&#8217;s latest market price<br />
- View product&#8217;s cheapest vendor<br />
- Smart shopping lists (automatically remove/decrease items when bought)<br />
- Finger friendly for touchscreen devices</p>
<p>To come:<br />
- &#8220;Downloading&#8221; a shopping list via SMS to your mobile (for low-tech, no data-plan users)<br />
- Automatically &#8220;solve&#8221; the shopping list &#8220;equation&#8221; and propose cheapest location to buy the items<br />
- Coupling with Barcorama is on its way naturally&#8230; The vision: &#8220;Return home from the supermarket and use your pda to quickly+accurately log the purchases&#8230;&#8221;<br />
- Voting system to filter out the bad/inaccurate information<br />
- Automatic logging of purchases (e.g. using Paypal receipt emails)<br />
- Database security: encryption of user private entries<br />
- Own data export/import<br />
- Bug fixes!</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not a web developer so please, bear with me&#8230;</p>
<p>have fun <img src='http://costpad.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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