Finding beers by barcode

Idea Discussion in 'BeerAdvocate Talk' started by MutuelsMark, Sep 29, 2023.

Thread Status:
Not open for further replies.
  1. MutuelsMark

    MutuelsMark Grand Pooh-Bah (5,787) Jan 23, 2015 Kentucky
    BA4LYFE Society Pooh-Bah Trader

    Allow users or certain users to upload the barcode so beers can be found by scanning barcode within app.
     
    ChicagoJ and Cathartes like this.
  2. Orca

    Orca Grand Pooh-Bah (4,710) Sep 18, 2010 Washington
    Pooh-Bah Trader

    So I’m somewhere that sells beer and I pull out my phone and scan the bar code on a can, bottle, or box and it pulls up the beer’s profile page on BA?
     
  3. Todd

    Todd Founder (13,518) Aug 23, 1996 Finland
    STAFF Mod Team Society Pooh-Bah

    This would require us to first build a BeerAdvocate app. Something that I'd love to revisit one day...
     
  4. Todd

    Todd Founder (13,518) Aug 23, 1996 Finland
    STAFF Mod Team Society Pooh-Bah

    Yes, that's the general idea. And if it's the first time the barcode is scanned, we'd prompt the user to associate a beer with it and each subsequent scan would help validate the association.

    This is something that we were working on pre-Next Glass/pandemic. Unfortunately that beta app project is dead, but some of the bones are still there. We'll see...
     
    SLeffler27, ChicagoJ, Rug and 4 others like this.
  5. MutuelsMark

    MutuelsMark Grand Pooh-Bah (5,787) Jan 23, 2015 Kentucky
    BA4LYFE Society Pooh-Bah Trader

    yes exactly. If it isn’t already on BA then it can be added.
     
    ChicagoJ likes this.
Thread Status:
Not open for further replies.