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Re: Show HN: Fruits and vegetables in season in your zip code

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Post by brudgers »

My visual experience:

1. There is a field to enter zipcode and empty space below.

2. I enter zipcode.

3. Empty space filled with fields for an email and name and a "we found results banner".

4. Because all the results were off my screen I figured it was nothing more than another email harvesting page.

5. Later I saw it on the front page of HN and tried it again. It still looked like an email harvesting page on my laptop. Only because I had seen the comments did I think it might be possible to scroll down.

It might be worth delivering value (results) before asking for value (a visitor's email). Fresh fruits near me is awesome. Signing up for email isn't.

Good luck.

Re: Show HN: Fruits and vegetables in season in your zip code

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Post by irrational »

Where is the data coming from? It tells me that things like apples, pears, etc. are at peak ripeness (true) - but then it says the closest places are 50 miles away. I know for a fact that there are numerous apple and pear farms that are open to the public within a few miles of my house (they are problem in the same zip code as my house).

Re: Show HN: Fruits and vegetables in season in your zip code

#94

Post by peterwwillis »

swalsh wrote: post #75
platz wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your request is different from the core value prop of OP's sites focus

It's a mailing list, not a unix app. I'm not going to be piping the output from this into something else. To me the core "value prop" of this is "inspiration" for things to make. Adding specifics to that seems like a natural extension.

You need inspiration to cook a vegetable?

Re: Show HN: Fruits and vegetables in season in your zip code

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Post by plumeria »

platz wrote: post #68
swalsh wrote: post #41

Very cool. Not sure if your motivation is to "promote local eating" or if you're trying to build a cool product that would bring in some cash... but if you're looking to monetize, I'd pay a small amount (about the cost of a magazine) for a HIGH-QUALITY set of recipe suggestions that use 6 ingredients or less, and take ~1hr to cook. (because I cook for a family every day, I don't have all day to cook, and I don't want…

Your request is different from the core value prop of OP's sites focus

The mailing list is valuable if OP's site wants to sell seeds.

Re: Show HN: Fruits and vegetables in season in your zip code

#96

Post by dominotw »

peterwwillis wrote: post #94
swalsh wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a mailing list, not a unix app. I'm not going to be piping the output from this into something else. To me the core "value prop" of this is "inspiration" for things to make. Adding specifics to that seems like a natural extension.

You need inspiration to cook a vegetable?

We wouldn't be having a obesity epidemic if that wasn't the case.

Re: Show HN: Fruits and vegetables in season in your zip code

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Post by charris5 »

Would love to share this with my non-tech friends, but the data's just not there yet, and sharing with them would ruin their impression forever. Data is too sparse with respect to geography. No idea how you get the data, but increase your data density as a function of location, and you'll likely see wide adoption.
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