As I mentioned in one of the previous comment -> this is my first ever mobile app. I’m basically educating myself building it and found out about F-droid to late in the process, when there were already in-app firebase notifications, that will not work there. As someone mentioned - there is alternative and I’m moving to it in nearest weeks + open sourcing the project, so it will land on F-Droid and will be open to contributions as well. Thanks for pushing for it :)
Indeed, that’s part of the mission! I’m still educating myself in terms of veganism (being vegan for 2 years so far) while building this, so it takes some time to make it good, but I’m genuinely impressed with how far I could get so far and I have no intentions to slow down and your comment is very encouraging to keep pushing it forward :)
I will add another post here once it’s opened and available. Thanks for your interest :)
I’ll definitely consider this. It gets harder to maintain, the more users are joining, so I need to reconsider some of the aprooval flows, review flows etc. to make sure data-quality is at least stable and hopefully improving first. But UnifiedPush will indeed land in the backlog right below the basic F-Droid version
No valid reason tbh. I just forgot about it while building and now have tons of things to work on (also aside from the project). Will make sure to open the repo for contributions asap and notify everyone in the app that it’s possible now. Thanks for highlighting it :)
Thanks for flagging those! I will add a “leave feedback form” in app. But I surely accept all feedback/corrections/suggestions at hello@plantspak.com and there is a contact form on the web platform as well.
And i will fix those UI issues asap :)
thanks and great question! I run automated scripts every week now and it looks back ~9 days, not 7 - a deliberate overlap buffer so nothing that changed between runs slips through, but for now it’s not automatic - it produces the report for me to work on. I’m considering automating it at some point.
Valid point, as I mentioned in one of previous replies - this is my first ever mobile app and I’ve used some things along the way that would not work with F-droid builds right away, but I’m working on it as we speak, to make an open source version and make it available for public.
Also inside the platform -> you may delete your account at any time and I commit to never use any customers data outside of the customers experience with a platform itself.
I have a plan for a dedicated F-Droid version of the app. And hope to launch it during the summer still (hope the new google approach to apps will fail as well). It’s a little more tricky for me personally as this is my first-ever production-grade mobile app, so it takes some time to figure out the details. For example, push notifications will not work, for better or worse and I’d like people to get notifications when there is a new vegan spot in their city + I use Expo (this felt like the best path initially) which will not work well for F-droid builds.
So it will take some time - but I will open source it and move to F-Droid and hopefully other catalogs as well.
There are more details on web version, probably still not enough. I did not want to make the place page to crowded with more “technical” data. But I will reconsider it moving on. You may also help me verify the places by markign them in app or on web or suggesting exact changes on web :) thanks
wow, happy to hear that! I’d still recommend to check at least google maps to be sure it’s open and opening hours are correct. My data is OK, but I can’t guarantee yet, unless the verification badge clearly states that it’s verified (I’ve checked quite some places manualy).
I keep improving data every day. So thanks for an encouraging comment :)
I’ve build a platform initially based on OSM imports. It’s good to have it, but the data quality is not reliable enough. I keep researching and cleaning up the data + working on repeatable import from OSM + OSM enrichment, but it’s quite tricky on a scale. Mapped ~50k vegan and vegan-friendly places so far and everyone can add/save their favourite places, add reviews etc. All free, no ads and run by 2 people. And mobile app is available - maybe this will be another optional alternative to consider :)
Thanks! This is exactly why I’m looking for a feedback. These are real errors from an automated OSM import that got hallucinated descriptions. We’ve corrected them:
You’re right that the AI classifier made embarrassing mistakes on these. We have a community correction system (tap any place -> “Suggest Correction” -> you can change the vegan level), and we’re running a bulk re-classification pass to catch more of these. Also I’ve added the “Actually 100% vegan” button to the list of available verifications.
Overall I’m improving the scraping and enrichment scripts on daily bases thanks to reports like this. I’m quite sceptical about current data state, so reports like this are extremely helpful! Appreciate it!
Thanks for the kind words :) I’m enjoying it a lot, but of course can’t make it a full time activity, so, indeed, need to be careful about mindset and clarity to not burnout. But i will keep everyone here posted once it’s open sourced and ready for contributions.