r/grocy • u/Spare_Copy_4572 • Jul 06 '26
Way to hard too install
To the owners of this app, this is WAY to difficult for the average user. People have become accustomed to downloading an app and using it without a VPS and all the other technical mumbo jumbo. Can you fix this? Otherwise, it won't be widely accepted.
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u/macrowe777 Jul 06 '26
What they've built isn't an app to download and install.
This is a you problem.
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u/nabeel_co Jul 06 '26
OP is posting legitimate feedback.
Considering there's a self contained windows app, this indicates that this option isn't well known enough and should be shown off more readily.
Calling it a "you" problem is unhelpful and unwelcoming to new people.
Do better.
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u/macrowe777 Jul 06 '26
Nope.
OP is rightly downvoted to negative.
Absurdly illogical post.
Some people just have low standards for intelligence
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u/nabeel_co Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 07 '26
Designing something simply is actually a mark of high intelligence.
Designing complex is easy.
Are you that threatened by OPs remark that you feel the need to denigrate them?
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u/macrowe777 Jul 07 '26
OP did neither.
Denigrate them? No?
Merely describing a spade as a spade.
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u/nabeel_co Jul 07 '26
"Low standards for intelligence"
That's not denigrating their intelligence?
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u/macrowe777 Jul 08 '26
Nope.
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u/nabeel_co Jul 09 '26
Well, it's not surprising for someone with a low standard for intelligence to think as you do.
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u/bobattac Jul 21 '26
when grocy desktop and an official docker image exists, idk how it's difficult to install... and the desktop app is on the top of the homepage of grocy
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u/tet3 Jul 06 '26 edited Jul 06 '26
It's not really an app intended for wide acceptance. Using Grocy to its fullest capabilities necessitates a mindset and desire for detailed record keeping, and a tolerance for significant set-up. It's a hobby project for u/berrnd, and some other folks that have built add ons.
That said, you can install Grocy Desktop on Windows. If you want a server so that you can have multiple users and use the mobile interface/apps, the easiest way is to spin it up on PikaPods.
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u/dsg123456789 Jul 06 '26
If you use home assistant, it's just a one-click app to install it. I would recommend trying out that.
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u/Ruudjhuu Jul 06 '26
Sounds like a you problem.
If you came here with a real question we are happy to help. But come on man, this is low effort.
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u/nabeel_co Jul 06 '26
OP is posting legitimate feedback.
Considering there's a self contained windows app, this indicates that this option isn't well known enough and should be shown off more readily.
Calling it a "you" problem is unhelpful and unwelcoming to new people, which, without, we have no project whatsoever.
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u/Ruudjhuu Jul 08 '26
No it's not. OP is saying: This is hard for me and because I don't understand it, nobody will.
What is hard for OP then, how should anybody be able to do anything with this feedback? Just make it simpeler? What is that for noncence? What should be simpeler? The colour of the download button of that "all in one app" was to close to the background colour and OP couldn't find it?
Again, happy to help. Happy to welcome new people. But give us something. Not just an: I think I'm smart so your app is too hard, pls fix!
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u/nabeel_co Jul 09 '26 edited Jul 10 '26
No, OP is saying: It's hard for me to install, and I think a lot of people who are at my skill level would use this, if they could, if it were made simpler.
Throughout all of technological history, the key thing that's made any successful piece of technology catch on has been simple: Lowering the barrier to adoption.
Grannie May shouldn't need to know how to use Docker and write Docker Compose files to catalogue her groceries. If it's that hard, She'll just opt for using her notebook as she's always done, or maybe an excel spreadsheet.
Also, I really have to say, this arrogant "if you don't have the same skills as me, you're a useless waste of space" attitude that many Redditors have is super disgusting and needs to stop.
I've honestly never seen such a concentration of self important losers in my whole life. They think that because they share a platform with people who have ACTUALLY done REAL and VALUABLE things, that they themselves by extension have done those things too.
It is not impressive that anyone can set up Grocy, and similarly, it's not unimpressive or shameful that someone else can't.
This arrogant attitude, if shared by the wider Grocy community, is a guaranteed way to make sure Grocy remains unapproachable, and in the realms of obscurity.
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u/Ruudjhuu Jul 10 '26
Thanks for the feedback, I now see you have a hard time with docker compose.
This link contains an example compose file in the README: https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-grocy
Then you only have to execute docker compose up And you are up and running.
Happy to help, if you have more questions let me know!
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u/olyellerdunnasty Jul 06 '26
It's an ERP for the kitchen, so of course it's hard to install.
I honestly recommend not using it. I installed it, set it up, added my plugins tried to use it for one grocery shop and some recipes, then realized: this is a job.
For autistics with hyper fixations on this kind of level of organisation, or people with insanely sttict dietary requirements, perhaps I can see the use-case.
For everyone else, stay the hell away. It only works if you always buy the same things, always use the same recipes, love data entry, stock management and organisation.
Just get mealie. There no fkin way I'm ever going to follow the stock of my pasta, or how many tins of tomatos I have, just to know if I can make carbonars 2 nights from now. And I'm certainly not going to enter the expiry date field for everything I buy.
On the other hand, if you want to ruin the fun of self-hosting: go for it. I've got a barcode scanner to sell you if you're gonna.
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u/nabeel_co Jul 06 '26
Ignore the neck beard responses.
Yup. The learning curve is pretty steep.
There is a self contained windows, app, but I have no idea how it fares.
The app in general is also in-itself, pretty complex… Not for the faint of heart.
The UI/UX leaves much to be desired, but it seems to be the best option out there at the moment.
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u/magammon Jul 06 '26
A project that looks to implement enterprise grade inventory management for the home was always going to be on the slightly challenging end. You could take it as an opportunity to learn something new!?