About Basket
It started as one household's answer to a question nobody could answer from memory: where did the grocery money actually go?
Why it exists
Food prices moved sharply and everyone noticed. Almost nobody could say by how much for the things they personally buy, because the evidence was on a pile of thermal paper in a drawer.
Budgeting apps were not the answer. They read a bank feed, which shows that 847 kronor went to a supermarket and nothing at all about what was in the trolley. The interesting question is not how much you spent at a shop. It is what you paid for coffee, and whether that changed.
The only record of that is the receipt. So the whole design follows from taking receipts seriously as a data source.
What it is built on
Nothing counts until a human confirms it. Automated extraction is good and not perfect. A price history built on unreviewed numbers is worse than no price history, because you would trust it. So the review step is mandatory and everything downstream reads only confirmed receipts.
Say nothing rather than say something wrong. Where there is not enough history to support an answer, Basket says so. It does not substitute zero, extrapolate from two observations, or present a guess with a decimal point on it to make it look measured.
Your data is yours and nobody else’s. Grocery receipts are among the most revealing records a household produces. They are never sold, never shared, and never used to target advertising. Administrators cannot read them either.
Small and self-hosted. It runs on one server, with no analytics, no tracking and no third-party scripts beyond what is strictly needed.
Who runs it
One person, privately. It was built for a single household and is now open to others who find it useful. That shapes the commitments honestly: it is carefully built and actively used, but it is not a company, and it does not pretend to offer what a company would.
Getting an account
Accounts are opened on request rather than by public sign-up, which keeps the service small enough to run properly and the costs predictable.
Write to naghmeh.ghorashi@gmail.com with a sentence or two about how you shop and what you would want to get out of it.
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