Pointy.com has anybody heard about it here?

[funky-frizby]

Hi

I have a client that has bought into pointy.com. I am looking at it and it basically scans barcodes of products and creates a directory of it and then creates some sort of local product search!

has anyone else come across this thing and what are your thoughts on it. Is it any good??

Cheers

Steve

[MiriamEllis]

Hey Steve,

I first learned about Pointy from the American Independent Business Alliance a few months ago, and wrote a bit about it here:

https://moz.com/blog/local-seos-guide-to-buy-local

*See the section subtitled "Digitize Inventory Easily".

It's early days yet, but the fact that founder of WordPress and co-founder of Google Maps are Pointy's angel investors makes me think it could go far.

While I've yet to hold a Pointy device in my own hands, the potential for it to enable smaller local businesses to get their inventory onto the web so easily is incredibly appealing.

If anyone is actually using Pointy, I hope you'll contribute to this thread!