How the Hunt List works
Tag bottles as Want, Have, or Had. Use it to track what you're hunting, what's in your bar, and what you've tried.
The Hunt List is your personal index of what to chase, what you own, and what you've already tried. Three tags, used together:
- Want — bottles you're actively hunting. The tag also signals interest to the rest of Bottle Hunt: a "47 hunters want this" badge appears on the product page once enough want-tags accrue.
- Have — bottles in your bar right now. Useful as a personal reference; a future trade-matching surface (Phase 5+) builds on this.
- Had — bottles you've tried. Useful for remembering what you liked.
The tags overlap. A bottle can be Have and Had at the same time ("I've tried it and there's a fresh one open"), or Had and Want ("I've tried it, want another bottle").
How to use it
On any product detail page, hit the Want / Have / Had chips to toggle. The tags are private to your account; nobody sees who tagged what.
What's not private is the count of hunters who tagged a bottle as Want — that's what powers the "most-wanted" sort on the products list and the "n hunters want this" badge on the product page. The count is the only thing exposed; your individual tag never is.
The full tagged surface lives on the Hunt List page where you can filter by tag.
Roadmap
- Phase 4 (now) — tagging surface, Want/Have/Had toggles, your private list, public counts.
- Phase 5 — alert email/SMS when something on your Want list lands as a drop.
- Phase 6+ — anonymized trade-match surface across hunters.
The schema for all of that is already there.
When a bottle on your Want list shows up in the drops feed or in a new entry on the lotteries page, the alert is the moment you'll want to be paying attention.