It’s a really good idea, but the database is seriously lacking. Almost none of my favorite brands and products are available (I live in Michigan), and there’s no option to add a custom product, you have to email the devs. While I’m glad that’s available, I don’t want to spend three hours emailing them a list of everything I use on a daily basis. It’s also impractical. I don’t know what the market is like anywhere else, but in MI they come up with new strains and randomly named concentrates *all the time*. If I can’t create my own custom product for my personal account the app is unfortunately useless to me.
Hello! Thanks for the feedback. Your comments are valid. Two encouraging things to say in response: 1) We've got a small team of people working to build our database of brands and products. We just started last year and we're up to about 1,500 brands and 40,000 products. We're proud of how far we've come with the database, but it's not helpful to you if your local products are not in there yet. We have work to do in Michigan. Illinois (my home state) is a top priority right now, too. 2) We are also working on designs for a feature that would enable users to create their own "brand" of products. Our intention is help legal home-growers compare their experience with their own products to store-bought products, which we think is pretty neat. The custom product feature is a bit of a design challenge because we need to make it easy to use, but to create a product and have it work in the analytics that our users use to optimize their consumption, we also need information on cannabinoid profiles, doses per piece/patch/dropper/pill, strains, terpenes, the correct product category to cause the unit-of-consumption to work properly, etc.. These are all things we set up internally when you email us via that add-a-product feature - and we always try to get any requested product added in 24 hours. Thanks again for the feedback!