Hamta

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A shopping list gets written in the order things come to mind, and walked in the order the shop is laid out. Those two orders have nothing to do with each other.

My fiancée writes the list. Things missing at home, things a recipe needs, in whatever order they come to mind. Sometimes in English, sometimes in Dutch. The Dutch is meant kindly, because the word on the list then matches the word on the shelf. It also means I regularly end up standing in an aisle holding a phone that says sperziebonen, with no idea whether I am looking for a vegetable, a cleaning product or a kind of sausage.

Then I walk in and read a list that zig-zags. Bread, washing-up liquid, yoghurt, bread again. Three laps of the shop, and I still come home without the one thing that mattered.

What it does

Now she writes it however she likes. English, Dutch, a link to a recipe, a photo of a note on the fridge, a screenshot shared in from wherever she found it. The app sorts it out. What comes back is one list, with the quantities read, grouped and ordered the way you actually meet things walking the shop.

Tap the ⓘ on a line and it shows what the packaging says in the local language, and what to look for. That is the step that turns a translated word back into something you can spot on a shelf. It holds the shop's loyalty card too, so it is ready at the checkout instead of buried in a wallet app.

The name means something in both Swedish and Farsi. Hämta is Swedish for to fetch, and hamta is Farsi for a match, an equal, a counterpart.

Status

Live at hamta.nl

Built with

Go, Vertex AI, Firestore, Cloud Run — installable as a PWA

Name

Swedish hämta, to fetch · Farsi hamta, a counterpart