news.ycombinator.com• Aug 26, 2024• 1 min read
Show HN: Coffee Beans Tracker with OCR Inventory Management on GPTI brew coffee and I buy a lot of beans. I’m also a lazy person that doesn’t want to type in all the details in one of the available apps and track things to the grams.Luckily I found out that GPT-4o (free tier) is good enough to take a few photos I uploaded of a bag and parse it’s roaster, varietal, origin, tasting notes, roast date, etc. I tried with a dozen different bags and it works pretty well - even when it makes mistakes I can correct them with natural language conversation, which I enjoyed.Then I had to figure out storage. I don’t want to rely on the chat history / context as a way to store info as that can easily get lost. I discovered GPT Actions. My immediate thought is to give GPT some access of an online scratchpad that it can read and write and call it a day. That’s how I ended up integrating it with GitHub Gist. I created an empty gist file, and generated an app access token that reads/writes gist files. I hardcoded this token to GPT Actions, (struggled quite a bit on te
