Grocery coupon API
An idea I've been mulling over for some time now. Not sure if I'll ever have the time to work on it. But it would be a pretty cool idea, to consolidate all those weekly coupons from grocery stores, and expose an API that can be consumed by third-party apps, such as a Budgeting app.
I dig it. Things that save people money are valuable tools. How do you think the actual coupons could be ingested? Manually clip and scan?
That's the real challenge. I am almost tempted to hire someone to be a mechanical Turk till I figure out a more elegant way to do it.
Do you know of existing budgeting apps that would use this?
Funny you should ask. I built one about 3 years ago. But I stopped because I couldn't deliver more value for what I was charging.
So I figured adding coupons based on user's shopping habits would add some substantial value. That's how I ended up thinking about a grocery coupon API.
Since there isn't any at the moment.
Is this idea specifically to particular region? I am still confused about the coupon. How the user get the coupon in the first place ? And what the Api have to do with this?
I should probably provide more context. I was working on a food budgeting app, and it got me thinking about a coupon API that could provide coupons to the user based on their spending habits.