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The site is beautiful and unusually complete. You've put in a lot of thought and work, and it shows. The press release for today was a nice touch. It's great to see the…",{"id":57,"by":58,"text":59},"8632201","dfan","I'd love to see ABV on the main list (instead of having to go to that beer's individual page). When I'm scanning through a menu, that's one of the primary things I look at.",{"id":61,"by":62,"text":63},"8631631","joshyeager","Pretty cool idea. I don't have a beer menu here to test with, but the search is very fast. One critique: your website doesn't explain the difference between Free and Pro. I had…",{"value":65,"source":50,"evidence":66},"Beer drinkers who scan menus at bars and shops",[67,71],{"id":68,"by":69,"text":70},"8632012","organsnyder","I don't have a menu handy, so I tried taking a picture of the example on your website on my monitor. 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I look forward to being able to sort by IBU and screen out anything below whatever my current threshold happens to be (runs between 40 and 80,…",[120,132,137],{"value":121,"source":77,"evidence":122},"Slow photo scanning and poor recognition",[123,124,128],{"id":68,"by":69,"text":70},{"id":125,"by":126,"text":127},"8632068","lost_name","My experience is similar on a Galaxy S4. The extremely long processing time lead me to believe it had locked up or was otherwise doing nothing. Also, it managed to find a beer…",{"id":129,"by":130,"text":131},"8633695","steakejjs","So this looked really great and I'm sure it will be. I realize that there are a lot of barcodes, but I happened to see this thread while at Costco. I downloaded the app while…",{"value":133,"source":77,"evidence":134},"Website did not explain Free vs Pro difference",[135,136],{"id":53,"by":54,"text":55},{"id":61,"by":62,"text":63},{"value":138,"source":77,"evidence":139},"Unclear privacy policy and possible ad tracking",[140,144],{"id":141,"by":142,"text":143},"8632494","deltaecho1338","I was not able to find your privacy policy. Are you tracking what beers I'm looking up? Where I am? How long I spend drinking? Are you serving ads generally or are they somehow…",{"id":145,"by":146,"text":147},"8632294","jsm386","Very cool! This is like the beer version of WineGlass (http:\u002F\u002Fwineglassapp.com\u002F)! They managed to get ratings from CellarTracker via private access to their API (like Beer…",[149,164,168],{"value":150,"source":77,"evidence":151},"Integration with Untappd or BeerAdvocate ratings",[152,156,160],{"id":153,"by":154,"text":155},"8631628","brettkc","Do you integrate with Beer Advocate or Untappd for your ratings? Great idea, good luck!",{"id":157,"by":158,"text":159},"8632070","pettazz","BA doesn't provide an API, and they regularly go after scraper-style \"API\" implementations that pop up. http:\u002F\u002Fwww.beeradvocate.com\u002Fcontact\u002F Also, +1 for Untappd integration.…",{"id":161,"by":162,"text":163},"8633427","triplenineteen","For me, Beeradvocate integration would be a huge improvement over Ratebeer.",{"value":165,"source":77,"evidence":166},"Show ABV on the main list",[167],{"id":57,"by":58,"text":59},{"value":169,"source":77,"evidence":170},"Windows Phone version",[171],{"id":172,"by":173,"text":174},"8632237","_nickwhite","What are your thoughts on rolling this out to Windows Phone? A lot of us are stuck (or choose to be) on the platform.",[176,180],{"value":177,"source":77,"evidence":178},"Where ratings data comes from",[179],{"id":53,"by":54,"text":55},{"value":181,"source":77,"evidence":182},"Which OCR library is used",[183,187],{"id":184,"by":185,"text":186},"8633563","adamio","What are you using for OCR?",{"id":188,"by":189,"text":190},"8632969","amit_m","What library\u002FAPI did you use for OCR?",[192,203,207,214],{"value":193,"source":77,"evidence":194},"SipSnapp",[195,199],{"id":196,"by":197,"text":198},"8631929","strick","Cool! would be nice if I could select a photo I have already taken from inside the app. http:\u002F\u002Fwww.sipsnapp.com\u002F has this feature and I use it.",{"id":200,"by":201,"text":202},"8634896","fuzionmonkey","Similar to SipSnapp [1]. The UI looks much better, though. 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