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Re: Show HN: Cinc – GitHub for recipes

#31

Post by ghayes »

NickBusey wrote: post #3

This 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…

My first thought was to remove "Vegan Butter" from the chicken recipe (or move it into a "Dietary Substitutions"), but then I realized my forked recipe would probably just be lost in the void. Maybe the goal of forks should be more akin to pull requests?

Re: Show HN: Cinc – GitHub for recipes

#32

Post by keithasaurus »

overcast wrote: post #28

Looks like a more complex version of what I had created with imadefood over a year ago. Similar features, with the branching, etc. I've been working on an iteration into a slightly different direction. As it didn't pick up any steam. Good luck :) As others have stated below, forkthecookbook, forkingrecipes, and also recipelabs. All do basically the same thing. I just don't think there is enough market for it. Certain…

Looks like a 502 error on the site. Is it still up? I'd be interested to see your approach if possible.

Re: Show HN: Cinc – GitHub for recipes

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Post by overcast »

keithasaurus wrote: post #32
overcast wrote: post #28

Looks like a more complex version of what I had created with imadefood over a year ago. Similar features, with the branching, etc. I've been working on an iteration into a slightly different direction. As it didn't pick up any steam. Good luck :) As others have stated below, forkthecookbook, forkingrecipes, and also recipelabs. All do basically the same thing. I just don't think there is enough market for it. Certain…

Looks like a 502 error on the site. Is it still up? I'd be interested to see your approach if possible.

Took it down to concentrate on other work, though I'd be open to discussion. hello@imadefood.com

Re: Show HN: Cinc – GitHub for recipes

#35

Post by amadeusw »

Looks great! I'm inclined to host my recipes there.

But before I do that, what is the future for this site?

* Do you monetize by getting a cut from the shopping cart? * Will I be able to easily download my data in the future, like I do with git repositories?

Re: Show HN: Cinc – GitHub for recipes

#36

Post by tedmiston »

NickBusey wrote: post #3

This 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…

> 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

That'd be a nice edition to GitHub's forks page. Over there star count might be the best proxy.

Re: Show HN: Cinc – GitHub for recipes

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Post by keithasaurus »

amadeusw wrote: post #35

Looks great! I'm inclined to host my recipes there. But before I do that, what is the future for this site? * Do you monetize by getting a cut from the shopping cart? * Will I be able to easily download my data in the future, like I do with git repositories?

I built it primarily for myself. It's able to run on cheap hardware and is very lightweight, so I plan to keep it up indefinitely at minimal cost. I haven't begun looking into funding/monetization, but that may happen soon. All data is already available via the API, so at some point, there will be a "Download my data" feature.

Re: Show HN: Cinc – GitHub for recipes

#39

Post by DerfNet »

this is a great idea. How many times have you looked at reviews on recipes.com or whatever and the first 10 include a half dozen substitutions, basically making a different end product entirely? each of those reviews could instead be a fork. awesome!

Re: Show HN: Cinc – GitHub for recipes

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Post by keithasaurus »

52-6F-62 wrote: post #26

This is a great idea! My one criticism right off the bat is the name -- the pronunciation isn't immediately obvious. ("Sink?", "Kink?", "Kins?", "Since?") Then again, I don't know if that's just me...

It's meant to be a pun for "kitchen sink," and also to work with the notion of "sync"-ing. It's pronounced like "sink." Cinc is the number 5 in Catalan and refers to the amount of senses we use when cooking.
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