“They hadn’t been able to get grocery slots for days,” Hertel said. “I wanted to create a solution so they wouldn’t expose themselves.”
With most of the U.S. locked down at home and many people afraid to risk their health with a visit to the grocery store, it’s become almost impossible to find a delivery window for groceries. Services such asAmazonFresh, Whole Foods delivery, Instacart and others usually let you choose a window for delivery. But with demand so high, the slots are almost impossible to find.
So Adrian Hertel, a computer science minor at Georgetown University,created a simple computer program that automatically notifies you when an Amazon Fresh or Whole Foods delivery slot opens up, letting you place your order. It works on Macs in the Safari web browser. Hertel told me he built it because he was worried about his parents, both of whom have immune deficiencies. Learn more here