The Listo Blog

Stories from the making of Listo — a shared shopping list app built by a solo developer.

New feature

Scan a receipt, get next week's shopping list

Point your phone at last Saturday's receipt. A few seconds later your list for next Saturday is half-written. Here's how the scanner works — including the Romanian Lidl receipt that forced a model switch — and why this one piece of Listo is in the optional subscription.

Andrei Timofte May 25, 2026 5 min read Read →
Behind Listo

Why I built Listo

My wife sent me shopping items buried inside a WhatsApp thread full of everything else. I kept missing them, U-turning on the way home, and losing messages to bad store signal. So I built the shopping list I actually wanted.

Andrei Timofte April 22, 2026 3 min read Read →