goodbuy - Shop Conscious

Love supporting small business and now it’s easy

Been trying to find a way to support Small businesses. This makes it so easy. Love it

I tried it on Amazon through safari and everything was going great easy to set up. But when I searched for example water bottles on Amazon And click the UI for goodbuy the results were things like pillows, bug spray and a couple water bottles didn’t match my search results. I replicated this with a lot of searches.

Goodbuy helps us to support causes we believe in by being more conscious of where we spend our money. I really like how goodbuy is built in as an extension, rather than the kinds of apps that only let you scan a bar code or type in the sku numbers. I’ll definitely share this with my friends and family since they share the shop small / local sentiment.

I downloaded this app and I was really excited to use it but I keep encountering the same issue over and over of getting a message that says I need to enable a Safari extension.

So great to be able to have all the products I typically search for in one place! Two ideas I have so for: - embedded browser with an option to open in the phones default browser; - a search option for clean ingredient products (example, clothing that’s 100% organic hemp, body products that are pure organic ingredients, snacks that have clean ingredients, etc) I also noticed on a company I no longer wanted to see, when I hit the button to do so, the reasons “why” I wanted to hide the company greatly overlap one another. I have also noticed if I have sustainable and American made selected, I do get products that are made in China and not sustainable mixed in with ones that are. For those of us who struggle finding products that are clean, sustainable, fair trade, made in America, and woman or black woman owned (these are actually how long my Google searches get ha!) it’s always been a struggle to hit all those points so I am very excited about this app and sharing with my friends! Thank you!

Like, it’s not BAD-BAD but I could easily just google “sustainable swim brands” and get them all in one place. As soon as I find something from a mega retailer that they have an alternative suggestion for I’m pretty disappointed. For example, I found some cutesweat-shorts on H&M and the alternatives were mens athletic shorts from a rugby brand, swim shorts, or ugly sweatshirts. Also, it seems that the only requirement for them to advertise a small business is that it is a small business. One of the alternatives they advertised (on Instagram no less!) for some knock off versace platform heels is obviously a drop-shipping site. A super sketchy one at that (can’t return in store? Alarmingly cheap??). How is that any better than Amazon? Just because Jeff Bezos isn’t involved?

I cannot activate this app. It opens for me in chrome, my default browser. When I try to copy the URL to Safari, it does not activate the app. I guess the only way for me to use this on my iPhone is the old-fashioned way, through the browser of my choice. It’s ridiculous that you require me to use a computer to get what I need out of your service!

Can someone please make this app better? I don’t want it to take me to an actual website when I click on something, I already have way too many tabs open on my phone. Take me to a screen in the app. Also I don’t want to always search for things. I want more ideas forced upon me of what to consider shopping for. My opening page was random and short. Just make it easier for me to choose something.

I absolutely love this organization and the ideals they support and stand for! I always want to support small businesses but it’s so hard to find options sometimes - until now! Highly recommend this app and the web browser add-on!