Fueltastic App Released - See The Cheapest 7-11 Prices from around The Country

Hey everyone,

I didn't know if this was the best place to post this or not but I've been working on this app for a little while now and I think its ready for public release. Last time I put it in the 7-11 fuel watch thread and it had a couple of upvotes and was fairly well received.

https://fueltastic.codemagic.app/

Features:

  • Gets the lowest price for fuel at 7-11's around the country and shows it in a neat format
  • Shows the price for the fuel on a graph, as well as showing a history for the fuel type selected
  • For each fuel price, shows whether it is trending down or up on the home screen so you can see at a glance what fuel is getting cheaper or more expensive
  • No ads
  • Respectful of your data, fuel prices are only updated when you pull to refresh, or load for the first time

Why are you making another Fuel monitoring app?

This will get a bit nerdy… I had some time over the holidays to make something in Flutter, which has recently gained web support. I didn't really have an easy way to know if it was a good time to buy fuel or not (save for the deals being posted on OzBargain).

If you want to support development, you can optionally buy the app from the Play or Apple store in the top right hand corner of the screen. The functionality is the same at the moment, but in the future I will probably add functionality for alerts if the price gets to a certain level, as well as if it has dropped 10% over the last 7 days etc.

Feedback welcome :) In the very near future I will also implement copying the latitude/longitude of the fuel place to the clipboard as well.

EDIT: You won't see price trends until you've used it for at least one day, as they are compared to the day before, and stored locally.

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Comments

  • Feedback: It would be cool to have the app say $1.99 instead $2.99 for a limited time… Also would be cool if we could search for a particular store then see the price history from that store, another good thing would be the ability to set a radius e.g 25km and then the App will show the cheapest fuel within the radius.

    • On iOS, I reduced it to $1.99 for now. I'm trying to save up for a Mac Mini build machine for my iOS builds (at the moment they build in the cloud and take a huge amount of time). But I'll make it cheaper for the first week or so and see how that goes.

      Listing all stores is good feedback, as well as price history. I'll see if I can implement something like that.

      • I reduced it to $1.99 for now.

        You should post it as an OzB Deal for more publicity.

        (I can do it for you if you don’t want to.)

        • Hmm, I think if I did that people would probably not appreciate it. If I'm the developer and I'm posting the deal and it is a brand new app then I think people would see it as biased (Like I'm trying to make a quick buck on an app that I made).

          It's still very new, so I will see how it goes for the rest of this week and if it gets some users I might run another sale in the future :)

  • Ah I should have associated myself with the website. That's my fault, thanks to the mod that associated me just now :)

  • +1

    So its basically fancier version of projectzerothree's 11-seven. I hope you have got permission etc from him/her.

    • +1

      ProjectZeroThree has an API which you can see here: https://projectzerothree.info/api.html, where it says "11-Seven has a JSON endpoint that can be used to integrate the best prices with your own scripts or applications."

      So, the API itself is meant for this kind of use :). It can be integrated with apps or scripts as it says on the page itself.

  • Is there any ability for it to poll for updates every 5 mins or so?

    • I can do that :) I'll let you know when its implemented.

      • Wouldn't it be pointless if ProjectThreeZero only updates every few hours?

        • You are entirely correct. I'll read the docs on how often the upstream API updates :)

  • +1

    Is there a price drop/price rise notification? Say the fuel drops or rises 1c/l on the selected fuel, it'll notify "oh price is on the rise" "oh price drop" etc. Maybe tie in with the trends. Or like a "abnormal price drop, get in quick" when 98 for 91c price shows up etc. Bought on Android. Thanks.

    • +1

      You're my first customer! Thanks so much.

      Notifications are next on the todo list.

  • +1

    Why only 7-11? Can you expand it to other brands as well. Locally 7-11 isn’t generally the cheapest so not one I frequent.

    • 7-11 prices are easy to query… but I'm looking into other fuel stations to display their prices as well. It'd be good to have it on the device, I agree :)

    • Agreed. An app might be worth paying for if it listed all (major) fuel stations and had price alerts.

      Of course if that data was available, the app would already exist.

      • I have fuel price app for nsw. Works well, but no notifications and splits ‘premium diesel’ and ‘diesel’ into two separate searches making it harder to find the cheapest nearby.

      • I'm trying to work this out. The fuel prices are largely a state by state thing, so I could potentially do this for QLD but I don't think a reliable data source exists for NSW, or other states.

  • +1

    FYI, I've fixed the CORS issue with the 11-Seven API, don't need the cors-anywhere service anymore.

    • Hey, thanks! I noticed that during development. I'll pop that out when I release the next update.

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