Oh hello, I (Tony) made a thing, and I need your help! Gas is really expensive. It is hard to find the best prices, and even harder to find the best prices for alternative fuels like R99 diesel, biodiesel, e85, etc.
OpenFuel.app is a crowdsourced fuel app for regular gas alternative fuels, with gamification in the form of "capturing territory" and gaining population when you submit prices. Steal the top spot from me on the leaderboard 👀
Price submission is quick and easy, either snap a pic of the station sign, or the pump, and the app extracts the prices for you quickly and automatically, you simply select the right station (if there are multiple nearby) and submit.
The app has value even without crowdsourced prices because even finding stations with these alternative fuels is difficult, and the app has all the information for locations already, just no prices. But obviously much more value helping users find the best prices once we get a big user base.
This is very beta still and things will break, but I thought it was finished enough I just need to release it and get prices starting to come in. Respond here when you find issues or send me emails. No apps on the app stores yet, but it can be installed as an app via the browser "add to homescreen" option. Goal is to release native apps on the stores eventually.
I'll make a video about it soon too, Twitter posts don't gain a lot of traction usually, especially those linking to external things like this
I think it is actually kinda fun to use and capture area and will be genuinely useful for people, which is one of my big life goals as I work on things outside of TGD "help people with things in real life"
Thanks for reading, plz help. Retweets and interactions appreciated as well to try to get it out to more people