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Re: Show HN: Cinc – GitHub for recipes

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Post by xyclos »

xyclos wrote: post #132

Should have the fork icon be an actual fork rather than the github icon.

I didn't expect this to get so many points. I'll add a bit more substance:

The ability to base your own work off of others' is one of the most important features of github. It is probably also a feature that probably wouldn't necessarily be understood by somebody not in technology or not familiar with how git works.

If this was my product, I would have named it it "Fork". Putting that feature front and center and making it really obvious that it is the stand out feature of the app, IMO, would help people to get right away why what you've built is so awesome. Even if they don't know what the heck github is.

Re: Show HN: Cinc – GitHub for recipes

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Post by keithasaurus »

roryisok wrote: post #120

I love this, signed up straight away. I've also recently discovered cookingforengineers.com and I love their card recipe system. it would be so cool if you could add something similar - I hate the traditional model of recipes, I always have to read and re-read them several times. I'm not sure how you would go about adding this though, its quite different from the structure you have already

Yeah, I've seen what they do. I like it in some ways. But with user-submitted input, their recipe card system at some point will be insanely wide/large/unwieldy.

Re: Show HN: Cinc – GitHub for recipes

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

codefined wrote: post #84
anotherevan wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not sure on that, but there are more regions than just the US and UK. For instance, here in Australia a teaspoon[1] is 15ml, not 14.92ml, and a tablespoon[2] equals four teaspoons, not three, so 20ml, not 14.8ml. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teaspoon#United_States_customa... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tablespoon#Traditional_definit...

Currently living in the UK, perhaps 90% of the recipe books and equipment I currently have in my house are Imperial. Definitely do value that as an option.

Recipes are an area that is quite hard to shift to metric because often recipes are handed down from previous generations. Simplistic conversions are easy, but will often create slight problems in the recipe - eggs, 'spoon based measures, etc., break the rounding that goes on in moving between measure systems.

Cookware passed down too could help to promulgate Imperial measures, we have a heap of tins that are inch-based measures. They're small effects but they add up.

Re: Show HN: Cinc – GitHub for recipes

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

mch82 wrote: post #102
gyrocode wrote: post #4

Interesting idea... Phrase "fork a recipe" just got a new meaning.

Might be worth user testing some different ways of saying "fork" in case the people who cook aren't the same as people who code. One to try might be "Remix" and "Remixes"?

"Adapt", "modify", "tweak", "personalise", ...?

Is forking really good for recipes, do you want to automate inclusion of upstream changes, surely not?

Re: Show HN: Cinc – GitHub for recipes

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Post by keithasaurus »

jordanwallwork wrote: post #124

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…

Thanks for the detailed issue. Sorry for the trouble! Could you send me the recipe link? I'm unsure know why you'd be hitting the issues you mentioned.

I'll try to respond to the issues you raised one-at-a-time:

1. 3.3 grams should be valid. Unsure why that would be a problem unless some weird unicode stuff???

2. There's no ingredient limit.

3. Esc clearing: I agree :) Clicking on the black transparency layer should also clear it. I just need to build it in. Maybe tomorrow :)

4. Plus -- you're right. Hadn't thought of that

5. Headings: I've left that for users to choose to do on their own. Hard to get too strict about that stuff. (Same reason steps aren't numbered.) I'd suggest doing all caps and a line break at each section.

6. Errors: I agree. There are a number of things ahead of that on the list of priorities, but it's a good idea.

Thanks for the descriptive feedback! Heston Blumenthal's recipes are always welcome on the site! Let me know if you run into any other trouble.

Re: Show HN: Cinc – GitHub for recipes

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Post by styfle »

AAAton wrote: post #8

neat idea! A weird piece of feedback: Something about the UI gives me a substantial feeling of loneliness.

That's a good way to describe it. Something about it feels empty.

I think the most obvious is the tiny sliver of a picture on each card. It feels like I'm looking though a key hole.

Besides that, the website is great!

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