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Why are you not using Google's Rich Snippets for individual recipes? It will not only help to get more traffic but also to rank better.
Is it possible to promote some kind of consistency in measuring? My wife disregards a lot of American cooking sites (am based in Australia) because the conversion of cups/teaspoons etc is sometimes open to interpretation and can lead to a disaster.
It's open to interpretation? Not that it's an ideal measuring system, but all those units should have unambiguous metric equivalents.
I ended up building my own solution to this problem too (though mine is not open to public) The main thing I wanted to optimize was menu planning. So I wrote a genetic algorithm which will generate a menu, add the score, mutate the menu in some way, and iterate. In my database I have a rough price per ingredient, and my families enjoyment of the recipe (though I have kind of a lagging gradient which reduces the score…
My take was a little different; I wanted a CLI app that lets me search my recipes, put menus together, and then see views for shopping and cooking: https://github.com/cproctor/cookbook/ One thing I'm looking forward to adding is tagging recipe steps as do-ahead, mis en place, early, late, and last minute. This will make it a bit easier to think through the mental gantt chart I use when cooking a dinner composed of a…
(NYT cooking very much excepted.) This is a consistently excellent resource, and I love the many small, essential bits of polish they've applied to their iOS app, like preventing your iPhone's screen from turning off when you're reading a recipe.
I ended up building my own solution to this problem too (though mine is not open to public) The main thing I wanted to optimize was menu planning. So I wrote a genetic algorithm which will generate a menu, add the score, mutate the menu in some way, and iterate. In my database I have a rough price per ingredient, and my families enjoyment of the recipe (though I have kind of a lagging gradient which reduces the score…
Is it possible to promote some kind of consistency in measuring? My wife disregards a lot of American cooking sites (am based in Australia) because the conversion of cups/teaspoons etc is sometimes open to interpretation and can lead to a disaster.
I cannot understand how anyone puts up with measuring stuff by volume (other than liquids). 1 cup of flour is a hugely variable amount depending on how compressed it is. Don't even get me started on heaped cups. For baking in particular where everything needs to be very precise, it's bonkers to see recipes without weight measurements.
Some of these friends without scales bake quite a lot, and do a very good job of it. I guess they're doing it on "hard mode" but they acquit themselves very well.
"I had issues organizing my favorite recipes, so I built this". Sounds like BS. How many 'favorite' recipes can one person have such that they have trouble 'organizing' them? I think the title of this link should be "I wanted to raise money from investors so I built an app and came up with clickbait scratch-my-own-itch startup rhetoric to get attention on HN"
"I had issues organizing my favorite recipes, so I built this". Sounds like BS. How many 'favorite' recipes can one person have such that they have trouble 'organizing' them? I think the title of this link should be "I wanted to raise money from investors so I built an app and came up with clickbait scratch-my-own-itch startup rhetoric to get attention on HN"
Hey cryptica. The intention of this post was not to "raise money from investors" (the service is free and I have no plans to monetize it so it would be a terrible investment). The intention was to show off something I've been working on in my free time. The project did indeed start because I had issues filtering through all the saved recipes in my browser's bookmarks.
I tried to log in and was told my email address had already used the service, and sure enough, a password reset had me logged in. I have no recollection of using it, so it may have been some time ago.
I like it. It doesn't quite scratch my itch, but it looks a useful tool.
"I had issues organizing my favorite recipes, so I built this". Sounds like BS. How many 'favorite' recipes can one person have such that they have trouble 'organizing' them? I think the title of this link should be "I wanted to raise money from investors so I built an app and came up with clickbait scratch-my-own-itch startup rhetoric to get attention on HN"
Normally I'd say you're being too cynical, but in this case it really does look like little more than a recipes-only (social?) bookmarking service.