Pumphunt - Fuel price search

Can you please click on the station in the app and click the Report link. It should allow you to submit a change, add Diesel Only to the station name and I'll update it in the app. The station will then be hidden from Petrol users.

Thanks

Can you please click on the menu in the app and click Add New Fuel Station. It should allow you to enter the station details and drag the pin on the map to it's location. Once done I'll update it in the app. The station will then be added.

Thanks

Yes, PumpHunt is shuting down. For a few reasons.

1. Not many users are using PumpHunt, partially my fault as there's no IOS app (didn't want to pay €250 fees to post an app on the AppStore). And also that fact it's very low down in Google Searches and Play Store, no one can find my app - unless they already know about it.
2. Pumps.ie app going down. I was scraping all the fuel price updates from all the Pumps.ie users, on top of PumpHunt submitted prices - which meant there was usually a lot of station price updates. But when the pumps.ie app went down (no new fuel prices), I lost that ability, and now (due to limited PumpHunt users) there is just not enough users to get a decent number of station prices updated.
3. Many many alternatives popping up. When I created PumpHunt, there was pumps.ie and that was about it. Now there are about 10+ alternatives. Include Waze, pickapump.com, FuelCompare.ie, and a bunch more. So, what market there was for users was further lowered by people using the alternatives.

PumpHunt was a dream, to get the latest fuel station prices to everyone - for free. The idea was good, but the uptake didn't match what was required to make it successful. If there was more interest, I would have made a lot of improvements and features, I would have made an IOS app, and I would have investigated getting the fuel companies involved - to get accurate fuel pricing data. But alas, here we are.

I'll keep the website running for another week or so, so the users all receive the message that it's shutting down. Then I'll disable the website and remove that app from the Play Store.

Thank you all for your assistance with making this app/website work.

'So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish'

I agree.

The problem is how to wake up the government.

Shameless self promo, check out PickAPump.com! (I'm biased but…) We're the best, most modern and intuitive fuel app around, plus we're free and cover Ireland, NI and mainland UK.

Any questions let me know!

No date on the prices?

just what I’ve been looking for , going on a road trip soon and was looking for a way to plot the course as economically as possible. Yes charge points added would be a very good idea.

Honestly I never got to try pumphunt properly while it was still around so I don't know if it's more of less, but yeah download Pick a Pump and check, I'd love your feedback if you think it's too many

Essentially it's 1: Click on Station, 2: Click 'Update Prices', 3: Enter your prices, 4: Hit submit

Or if you just want to reconfirm current prices: 1: Click on Station, 2: Click 'Resubmit Prices', (prices are auto-filled with current prices) 3: Hit submit

(Also premium members can upload an image of a station price board and we can detect the prices using AI, auto-fills the detected prices, you just hit submit then)

We do have dates on prices when you click onto a station, you can see it here in the green boxes I've drawn over. They're also colour coded green, amber and red based on how recent they are.

But also we have a transparency/fading feature which means any stations with prices over ~7 days old will begin to fade on the map - meaning any white/fully opaque stations are likely to be accurate/recent prices.

Then also if you're in list view you can see all the dates colour coded too :)

Sorry for all the screenshots - it's just the easiest way to explain. Hope that clears things up!

Thanks for the feedback, that's actually super insightful. I would be fearful to reduce the size of the price markers by much, but maybe slightly. Would a quick feature like a long press on the map to temporarily hide prices so you could see place names better be helpful?

In terms of greyed out prices, we do do that, we reduce their opacity and dull them, maybe I should make that a little more extreme.

Hey if you know anyone at Waze that wants to buy us let me know 🤣

That data is collected by the CSO, all the stations prices are submitted weekly.

There's no reason why we can't do it.

In Germany , ARAL publish their prices on their website, it's constantly updated, as in Germany prices fluctuate throughout the day.

After many years of using the Pumps.ie app and then moving onto PumpHunt app, I have just registered with Pick A Pump app, it's a really good app, and well thought out, the station icons showing the brand logo is great, and is propably way more superior to other apps, I found Waze annoying as you had to be either in the forecourt or very near the station to update prices.

With the prices changing so quickly an App like "Pick A Pump" is so useful, however it is frustating when another member updates only one fuel, both fuels need to be updated, I've seen many cases of members only updating say the petrol price and leaving the diesel price blank, this will wipe the existing diesel price that was posted there. Maybe there's a way the app could show the current prices in the edit fields and not empty fields on the update page of the app.

I have the currency issue too but also a different problem. I can update diesel and petrol prices but the plus prices are not accepted.