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Re: Ask HN: Open source food?

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Post by palidanx » Thu, Aug 16, 2018, 5:30 PM UTC

Shameless plug, but I run https://www.menutail.com which creates nutrition facts labels when you are ready at that stage of your business.

Re: Ask HN: Open source food?

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Post by bitesociety » Sat, Aug 18, 2018, 5:36 AM UTC

jakobegger wrote: post #10

I work a lot with Open Source software (both as a user and as a contributor), and the most important question is: Who is your audience? Everything else depends on the answer to that question. Do you mainly want to tell your customers how you make your product? Then start a blog, hire a photographer, and post on Instagram. Do you want to reach DIY bio hackers? Then put your recipes on Github. Do you mainly want to sha…

Thanks

The audience is mainly other vegan entrepreneurs (or those who want to be) so we can help each other with formulations and industry knowledge. It's a mission driven company End consumers to a minor extent, as I guess some of the formulations are not useful without machinery to make them.

Re: Ask HN: Open source food?

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Post by bitesociety » Sat, Aug 18, 2018, 5:38 AM UTC

rthomas6 wrote: post #9

Sorry if this comes off as snarky, but how is this different than recipes?

Not snarky at all. It's mostly about the manufacturing process (machinery, settings, process etc) that would make it different. This would be for a factory made product. THanks

Re: Ask HN: Open source food?

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Post by bitesociety » Sat, Aug 18, 2018, 5:38 AM UTC

palidanx wrote: post #11

Shameless plug, but I run https://www.menutail.com which creates nutrition facts labels when you are ready at that stage of your business.

Thanks, will take a look when at that stage

Re: Ask HN: Open source food?

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Post by bitesociety » Sat, Aug 18, 2018, 5:39 AM UTC

matt_the_bass wrote: post #8

bitesociety wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks, hadn't thought of that angle before. Yes would release all that information (basically what we know, we want our consumers to know, if they desire) eg- agree on natural flavours, thats a big pet peeve of mine (I have no idea whether it's vegan or not, most cases am forced into a decision i'm not happy with)

Oh good point. I hadn’t thought about vegan/not-vegan question. Though I eat a lot of vegan foods I’m not vegan, but I could see this being important to those that are. You could conceivably extend this idea to listing sources of ingredients for those that are concerned with ingredient sustainability. From my point of view the idea would not be to try and replicate the product but to have greater trust in it.

Understand, and yes plan to share source for ingredients, where I can find them out myself. Thanks