Show HN: Cinc – GitHub for recipes
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Show HN: Cinc – GitHub for recipes
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Re: Show HN: Cinc – GitHub for recipes
#2If anyone wants to know the stack it's Django/Postgres on the backend, and an Elm SPA frontend. All data goes through an undocumented REST API.
Re: Show HN: Cinc – GitHub for recipes
#3This looks promising and fairly well done, but it's lacking a few critical features IMO. The first obvious one is a way to Diff a recipe and it's Forks (unless I missed that).
The harder and maybe more important one, is an issue that GitHub itself still hasn't figured out how to solve either. There should be a process for a fork of a recipe being able to explain why it is better than the original, and have the fork be able to be voted on so that the 'best' fork as voted by the most users becomes the canonical 'Chicken Noodle Soup' recipe, or at least display the forks on main recipe ranked by popularity.
Re: Show HN: Cinc – GitHub for recipes
#4Interesting idea... Phrase "fork a recipe" just got a new meaning.
Re: Show HN: Cinc – GitHub for recipes
#5How are you doing volume to weight conversions? Do you have a big table of weights-by-volume for different ingredients?
Re: Show HN: Cinc – GitHub for recipes
#6This looks promising and fairly well done, but it's lacking a few critical features IMO. The first obvious one is a way to Diff a recipe and it's Forks (unless I missed that). The harder and maybe more important one, is an issue that GitHub itself still hasn't figured out how to solve either. There should be a process for a fork of a recipe being able to explain why it is better than the original, and have the fork b…
Yeah, it's on the list of things to do. Once there are enough recipes/users it will also be useful to see the history/ancestry of recipe. There are already a few that are forks of forks. All the recipe data is immutable and versioned, so that will happen at some point.
Re: Show HN: Cinc – GitHub for recipes
#7How are you doing volume to weight conversions? Do you have a big table of weights-by-volume for different ingredients?
Yeah, densities and fuzzy matching. It'll get more intelligent eventually, but does a pretty good job on common ingredients at the moment.
Re: Show HN: Cinc – GitHub for recipes
#8neat idea!
A weird piece of feedback: Something about the UI gives me a substantial feeling of loneliness.
Re: Show HN: Cinc – GitHub for recipes
#9Nice!
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 we have liked, and suggested new recipes to add to the pool.
I am this close to pulling the trigger on PlateJoy, but my biggest hurdle is I can't add recipes I _know_ we like to their list of experimental (to us) meals.
Really, I don't mind/enjoy cooking, but never seem to carve the time out to plan an entire family of four's meals a week in advance.
Re: Show HN: Cinc – GitHub for recipes
#10Nice! 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…
already in the works :)