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9 pointsphmarques8 comments

Some suggestions:

- Is there no way to delete or edit the list I created? I accidentally typed in "Grocert" instead of "Grocery" and I can't for the life of me figure out how to delete it. I tried long pressing, swiping, etc.

- The dots at the bottom of each list make it seem like it's swipeable, since those dots commonly used on image carousels as a pagination indication. It's super misleading.

- The website made it seem like you could look up items, similar to how MyFitnessPal works. This is not the case... I'm way too lazy to manually type in all that information.

- The ads come on way to frequently.

Sorry, but combined with the ads and the lack of editing capabilities, this app is less functional than the default Notes app on my phone.

kobot,

Thanks for the feedback!

- Yes, you can edit or delete a list. Just tap on the dots at the bottom of each list. You'll be able to edit the list name, budget and currency (if needed) as well as delete it. We'll consider making it more obvious. Thanks for the heads up.

- Good point. As I said above, we might as well change that icon to make it more clear.

- That's definitely something we are looking into. Hope to have that added soon enough.

- We are experimenting with it still. We will make adjustments :)

And just another quick related note: you can edit the items you add by tapping on them.

Hope you can give it another try soon enough and thanks again!

This looks pretty and useful for iPhone users, but as an Android user this isn't particularly useful to me, and the iPhone-only approach is stifling what could be a really awesome concept.

This would be much more awesome as a web application, perhaps with some sort of JSON API for third-party applications to hook into; beyond the obvious use-cases of developing an Android app, it would also enable cool things like, say, integrating with product and vendor (i.e. grocery store) websites in order to provide means to build a shopping list while surfing the web, then take that list with me on my phone while I go shopping, knowing exactly which stores I need to go to and how much I'll end up spending.

Yeah, we are considering that, but for now we just wanted to keep the concept really simple to test it out. We actually plan to do some other cool stuff such as shared lists, Pinterest integration, adding photos to the items and so on.

Thanks!

"Download for iPhone" only.

Enough said. Next!

Pretty much, yeah.

Strip away all the fancy, it's just a list. I don't buy it

The idea is to go beyond the traditional "To do" list. We've built Flesy to help you not only better organize what you plan to buy, but also to keep track of how much you've spent on any particular list.

Thanks for commenting though! I appreciate you gave it some thought :)

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