WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:03.260 Sunday, half past seven in the evening. 00:04.280 --> 00:05.100 My mum rings. 00:05.760 --> 00:09.040 She's down to her last tablet of the medicine she takes every day. 00:09.520 --> 00:10.580 The prescription one. 00:11.500 --> 00:13.300 The chemists on the corners shut. 00:13.900 --> 00:14.920 The next one open? 00:15.680 --> 00:16.400 No idea. 00:17.460 --> 00:19.440 And this is the moment, I think. 00:20.160 --> 00:22.400 How has this happened again? 00:23.400 --> 00:25.020 We only bought that pack. 00:25.960 --> 00:28.240 Well, I can't remember when. 00:29.120 --> 00:29.720 Hello. 00:30.460 --> 00:31.740 I'm Tomáš Šuster. 00:32.200 --> 00:34.020 I built the Moja Ptečka app. 00:34.940 --> 00:39.360 And what Iza's just described is a scenario every household knows. 00:40.500 --> 00:42.740 A medicine runs out on a Sunday. 00:43.820 --> 00:44.900 Always on a Sunday. 00:45.840 --> 00:51.600 Never a Tuesday at 11 in the morning when three chemists are open and I've got time. 00:52.280 --> 00:54.900 Because on a Tuesday you'd just go and buy it. 00:55.420 --> 00:58.720 See, the problem isn't that the chemists is shut. 00:58.720 --> 01:04.620 The problem is you find out the pack's empty at the worst possible moment. 01:05.160 --> 01:06.860 On the last tablet. 01:07.880 --> 01:08.400 All right. 01:08.960 --> 01:10.780 But how am I meant to know sooner? 01:10.780 --> 01:15.700 Am I to tip the blister packs out on the table every evening and count? 01:15.700 --> 01:17.580 You don't have to count. 01:17.580 --> 01:19.740 The app does it for you. 01:20.640 --> 01:25.660 Every time you mark that someone's taken a dose, the pack count drops by one. 01:25.660 --> 01:29.640 The app knows how many are left the whole time. 01:29.640 --> 01:31.200 Hang on. 01:31.200 --> 01:35.140 So it updates the number when I tick off a dose? 01:35.140 --> 01:36.140 Yes. 01:36.140 --> 01:38.660 It doesn't scan anything in the background. 01:38.660 --> 01:41.020 It just counts from what you tick off. 01:41.020 --> 01:43.120 And here's the heart of it. 01:43.120 --> 01:45.920 For each medicine, you can set a threshold. 01:46.840 --> 01:50.140 Say, warn me when there are five tablets left. 01:50.140 --> 01:54.560 When the count drops to that threshold, you get a notification. 01:55.560 --> 01:57.740 It's called exactly what the problem is. 01:58.540 --> 01:59.380 Low stock. 02:00.340 --> 02:01.960 And what's in that notification? 02:03.040 --> 02:05.300 The name of the medicine and how many are left. 02:06.080 --> 02:09.900 In black and white, five left, threshold five. 02:10.960 --> 02:13.080 And you don't get it on the last tablet on a Sunday. 02:13.080 --> 02:19.960 You get it a few days earlier, when you can still pop to the chemists, calmly, on a Wednesday afternoon. 02:20.100 --> 02:23.500 So you bring that moment of panic forward a few days. 02:24.180 --> 02:27.880 From there's nothing left to five left. 02:28.400 --> 02:29.780 Buy some while you're out. 02:30.560 --> 02:31.000 Exactly. 02:31.680 --> 02:36.380 And if you can't be bothered setting a threshold by hand for every medicine, there's a default one. 02:36.880 --> 02:38.000 It works straight away. 02:38.480 --> 02:39.240 Nothing to configure. 02:39.240 --> 02:40.240 Right. 02:40.560 --> 02:43.760 But I've got about 30 different things at home. 02:44.320 --> 02:49.560 Mum's medicine, the children's medicines, paracetamol, vitamin D. 02:50.220 --> 02:53.120 I'm not clicking thresholds for each one separately. 02:53.940 --> 02:54.780 And you don't have to. 02:55.300 --> 02:56.880 That's why there's a second thing. 02:57.320 --> 02:58.080 A shopping list. 02:58.660 --> 03:00.120 In the app, it's just called that. 03:00.520 --> 03:01.280 A shopping list. 03:01.660 --> 03:04.200 Under the basket icon in My Medicines. 03:04.720 --> 03:06.980 A basket, like in a shop? 03:07.160 --> 03:08.460 A bit like that. 03:08.460 --> 03:10.480 Except it fills itself. 03:11.140 --> 03:15.580 Anything that's low or has just gone out of date lands on that list automatically. 03:16.260 --> 03:17.140 You don't build it. 03:17.460 --> 03:21.040 It builds itself, from what the app already knows about your cabinet. 03:21.740 --> 03:30.260 And if I want to add something I haven't even got yet, because if I'm going to the chemists, I'll pick up some vitamin C while I'm at it. 03:30.260 --> 03:33.180 You add it by hand from two places. 03:33.180 --> 03:35.180 Either from the My Medicines list. 03:35.180 --> 03:36.180 From a medicines menu. 03:36.180 --> 03:37.180 From a medicines menu. 03:37.180 --> 03:38.180 Add to basket. 03:38.180 --> 03:42.840 Or, and this matters, from the register of all medicines. 03:42.840 --> 03:46.360 In the app, there's a separate All Medicines tab. 03:46.360 --> 03:47.580 The whole register. 03:47.580 --> 03:49.740 Tens of thousands of products. 03:49.960 --> 03:54.720 You find the vitamin C you haven't got at home, and you drop it onto the same list. 03:54.720 --> 03:55.720 So, one list. 03:55.720 --> 03:56.900 So, one list. 03:56.900 --> 04:00.840 Both what's running out, and what I want to buy. 04:00.840 --> 04:03.640 One list for one trip to the chemists. 04:03.640 --> 04:06.180 Because nobody carries five lists. 04:06.180 --> 04:07.720 One for the kitchen cupboard. 04:07.720 --> 04:08.940 One for the bathroom. 04:08.940 --> 04:10.400 You carry one. 04:10.400 --> 04:12.640 And what do I do with it then? 04:12.640 --> 04:14.180 You can send it. 04:14.820 --> 04:17.160 You share it like any ordinary bit of text. 04:17.720 --> 04:18.260 To your husband. 04:18.680 --> 04:19.120 Your mum. 04:19.640 --> 04:21.220 Whoever happens to be nearer chemists. 04:21.960 --> 04:22.160 Here. 04:22.460 --> 04:23.160 This is the list. 04:23.500 --> 04:24.000 Get this. 04:24.540 --> 04:27.800 No copying it onto a scrap of paper that ends up in your pocket anyway. 04:28.020 --> 04:33.480 And just by the by, everything we're talking about here is a real feature of the Moya Potechka app. 04:34.020 --> 04:34.980 This isn't an advert. 04:35.300 --> 04:36.700 Just context, to be clear. 04:36.700 --> 04:39.280 All right. 04:39.660 --> 04:41.860 But let's go back to mum on that Sunday. 04:42.560 --> 04:47.160 Because all these lists and thresholds are lovely when you're on top of it in advance. 04:48.080 --> 04:51.280 And sometimes you just don't manage it in time. 04:52.160 --> 04:52.920 It's Sunday. 04:53.400 --> 04:54.820 The medicine's gone now. 04:55.240 --> 04:55.940 What then? 04:56.720 --> 04:58.320 Then it's the last resort. 04:58.880 --> 05:00.240 And I'll be straight with you. 05:00.580 --> 05:02.540 That's the bit no app fixes. 05:03.480 --> 05:05.400 Out of hours pharmacy cover is thin. 05:05.400 --> 05:08.860 And finding one open on a Sunday evening isn't a given. 05:10.060 --> 05:10.920 And I'll be honest. 05:11.300 --> 05:14.620 I don't much trust the opening hours you look up online. 05:15.140 --> 05:18.820 Because you're usually pointed to one that should be open. 05:19.220 --> 05:21.760 And you're standing outside a dark window. 05:22.940 --> 05:24.660 And you're right that that's a problem. 05:25.700 --> 05:27.960 Sunday and late evening opening is patchy. 05:28.480 --> 05:31.220 And which pharmacies actually open keeps changing. 05:31.220 --> 05:35.260 There's no tidy, reliable list you can lean on. 05:35.880 --> 05:38.940 So you can't even count on finding one open? 05:39.880 --> 05:41.340 Not reliably, no. 05:41.900 --> 05:46.400 The honest way to check is to ring 111, the non-emergency line. 05:46.400 --> 05:48.960 And they'll point you to a pharmacy that's open. 05:49.760 --> 05:55.100 But I won't pretend the app has a magic map that always finds you somewhere open at three in the morning. 05:56.200 --> 05:58.120 The app doesn't do the pharmacy scramble. 05:59.080 --> 06:06.600 Everything else, the threshold, the notification, the shopping list, is there so you don't have to do that scramble at all. 06:06.600 --> 06:10.480 Right, that does sound honest. 06:11.220 --> 06:13.840 The app doesn't pretend it's better than it is. 06:14.880 --> 06:18.420 Because if it did, you'd lose trust in it at the first dark window. 06:19.440 --> 06:20.960 The pharmacy hunt is plan B. 06:21.840 --> 06:24.560 All the rest is there so you never reach for plan B. 06:25.440 --> 06:29.600 And when we're at my parents' allotment and there's no signal... 06:29.600 --> 06:34.460 The list and the counts are saved on the phone, so they work without a network. 06:35.800 --> 06:39.660 So a healthy medicine cabinet is one where Sunday's boring. 06:39.940 --> 06:42.040 The best compliment this app could get. 06:42.540 --> 06:44.560 That it makes Sunday boring. 06:45.320 --> 06:47.860 You know what strikes me most in all this? 06:48.300 --> 06:50.260 That it isn't about medicines. 06:50.720 --> 06:54.440 It's about not ringing your mum on a Sunday to ask, 06:54.960 --> 06:56.700 how many have you got left? 06:57.240 --> 06:59.320 Because she'll say, there's probably some anyway. 07:00.080 --> 07:03.080 And probably some isn't a number you can rely on. 07:03.900 --> 07:07.220 The app turns probably some into an actual number. 07:07.840 --> 07:08.520 Five left. 07:09.280 --> 07:11.440 What you do with that is your decision. 07:11.920 --> 07:12.700 And that's it. 07:13.180 --> 07:14.160 No panic. 07:14.660 --> 07:15.280 No panic. 07:15.840 --> 07:19.500 If you'd like to give it a go, that's the Moya Pteczka app. 07:19.960 --> 07:21.840 The app is free and works offline. 07:22.500 --> 07:24.160 You'll find the link in the episode description. 07:24.720 --> 07:26.680 And, if you enjoyed the episode, 07:26.680 --> 07:30.020 share it with someone who knows that Sunday phone call. 07:30.420 --> 07:31.860 I've run out of my medicine. 07:31.860 --> 07:34.580 One more thing before we go. 07:35.340 --> 07:38.440 This podcast is made with the help of artificial intelligence. 07:39.320 --> 07:40.580 I wrote the dialogue myself, 07:40.940 --> 07:43.500 but the voices you're hearing aren't ours. 07:44.120 --> 07:46.440 They're AI-generated synthetic voices. 07:47.440 --> 07:48.840 We're telling you this straight out, 07:49.340 --> 07:52.800 because we think it should be the standard for any podcast made this way. 07:53.800 --> 07:55.240 Full details are in the show notes, 07:55.540 --> 07:57.220 and in every episode description. 07:57.220 --> 07:59.080 Until next time. 07:59.800 --> 08:00.820 Until next time.