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Re: Show HN: Cinc – GitHub for recipes

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Post by papa_bear »

rojobuffalo wrote: post #16
zdrummond wrote: post #9

Nice! It is clear you put a lot of care into this, and I am sure there is a bucket full of features you want to get to, but I have a big request. What I really want is one step beyond a place to store recipes. I want a meal planning site! I want to create a pool of recipes that we like, and plug in how often this week we will eat at home. Then outcomes a grocery list and a plan for each day. Maybe it even sees what w…

Hey I'm also working on this (separate from OP). In the meantime you might check out https://www.eatthismuch.com/ .

Thanks for the mention - I started ETM with a similar goal in mind. We have a "personalize this recipe" function that's functionally similar to forking, but we never expanded on it much. We're planning to improve the social and browsing features eventually, but have some other priorities to get to first.

Also, cinc looks really nice - awesome work OP

Re: Show HN: Cinc – GitHub for recipes

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Post by bruth »

Wow! My friend and I had this idea years ago.. possibly pre-GitHub. I am glad someone finally made it! Well done. My particular interest was seeing how a recipe deviates from the original.. a recipe graph of sorts. That would a fun way to visually explore and find related recipes that are similar in ingredients.

Re: Show HN: Cinc – GitHub for recipes

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Post by jordanwallwork »

I went for a pretty ambitious test recipe (Heston Blumenthal's Egg in Verjus, Verjus in Egg), unfortunately I'm not able to save it - it's complaining that one of my ingredients is an invalid weight - 3.3 grams Gellan F. If I remove it then it complains about the ingredient before it, so I'm wondering if there's an ingredient limit? It's at about the 40th listed ingredient. It took me ages to input everything so I do hope I'm able to save it!

The recipe entry experience was great though, some small details that I think would improve things even further:

- Esc should clear the 'text entry' modal, I kept clicking this by accident when wanting to add a new section heading and it was a nuisance having to click the 'close' link

- '+ Ingredient section' should replace last ingredient row if blank

- Would be nice to have section headings (similar to 'ingredient sections' for recipe methods) to break up recipes with multiple discrete sections - Hard to find errors in long recipe. Could be more prominant, or add a 'jump to next error' button?

Re: Show HN: Cinc – GitHub for recipes

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Post by anoek »

zdrummond wrote: post #9

Nice! It is clear you put a lot of care into this, and I am sure there is a bucket full of features you want to get to, but I have a big request. What I really want is one step beyond a place to store recipes. I want a meal planning site! I want to create a pool of recipes that we like, and plug in how often this week we will eat at home. Then outcomes a grocery list and a plan for each day. Maybe it even sees what w…

Check out https://www.copymethat.com/ - has a great recipe import system, meal planning system complete with a shopping list generator, great view of the recipe while you're making it, it's been awesome for us.
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