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+# Vegan Barcode
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+The goal of this project is to be a crowd sourced resource to find out if a product is vegan
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+## Task list
+- figure out how we want to handle database migrations
+- create mobile and desktop front ends
+- create search api
+- create upload api
+- moderation tooling?
+- create workers
+    - barnivore lookup
+    - alergen ingredient database lookup?
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