We built a barcode stock app for our food pantry in two days

His charity food pantry needed a barcode scanner and stock checker but could not afford a paid system. He built one with AI in two days, and it now runs on a laptop in the pantry.

How it works

Builds a barcode scanner and stock checker app with AI over two days
Installs it on a laptop in the pantry
It is used there to check stock

Why it’s worth knowing

A small charity got a working stock system in two days, a tool it could never have paid a software company for.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on bsky.app. See the original ↗

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