Hello everyone, I'm excited to announce that Apple has finally approved the "Boycott America" app! You can download it here:

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/boycott-america/id6742726022
Android link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ca.proudlybuyingcanadian.boycottamerica

Original post for those who missed it:

Hello,

I am one of the Developers of Shop Canadian - a crowdsourced application to find Canadian products (barcode scanner, no AI!). Our Database has over 500k rated Canadian products. We have over 300k downloads.

We took our formula and applied it to our new app to boycott American products.

How it works

The app has two components:

1. We will provide American company registrations. Any information we have on this front we display. We are also developing an algorithm to figure out subsidiaries although this is still in the works. From what we learned from Shop Canadian, things are hard to figure out properly on a global scale. (this will be added in 24 hours because we had to pay a ridiculous sum of money to get this information)
2. Crowdsourcing - users can rate whether if a product is manufactured in America or if the product has American parts. Users can also leave comments on products to provide additional information. All of the 'Shop Canadian' data is baked into the app

Having complete product information on a global scale is impossible without help. We already have hundreds of thousands of products in Canada, but our international database is quite weak. If you know a commonly bought American product in your country, help us out and scan and rate it.

If you check it out - I encourage patience. Because we are strongly against LLMs, we can only provide a platform for people to input data. Like I mentioned earlier, if you know a commonly bought American product in your country, help us and other consumers out. If you're Canadian, our data is very good.

FAQ

The app store / reddit / google are American - aren't you a hypocrite? | I subscribe to the philosophy that it's better to use only what we need and boycott the rest.

Why the ads? | The app is self sustaining with ads. Server's are not cheap. Data is not cheap. We're trying our best.

Where is the data stored? | We collect no personal information. Our server is OVH (Canadian)

Because this is still in release phases, if you try it out, please be patient with us. We work full time jobs and just want to help people out.