Show HN: I had issues organizing my favorite recipes, so I built this

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Post by x86mitch » Sun, Oct 06, 2019, 10:08 PM UTC

Show HN: I had issues organizing my favorite recipes, so I built this
feastgenius.com

Re: Show HN: I had issues organizing my favorite recipes, so I built this

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Post by x86mitch » Sun, Oct 06, 2019, 10:09 PM UTC

Some Background:

Within the last year, I started down the route of eating out less and being more conscientious of what I was cooking. Google searches are a pretty good resource for finding recipes with one caveat, you can't store the recipes. I would save my favorites to a folder in my browser, but eventually, that folder became 120+ recipes links and ver time consuming to filter through when I wanted to make something.

I built FeastGenius to solve the problem of finding and organizing all those recipes. With the site, you can do the following.

- Add your own recipes.

- "Clip" recipes from anywhere on the web.

- Find a recipe on the site you like? You can save it to your profile so you can easily find it later.

- Organize recipes into collections and share them with anyone.

- Search from 20,000+ recipes.

    - plus filter by calories or macros (if your an iifym nerd like me).

- Find the top trending recipes added to the site.

    - Since I'm on reddit way too much I thought it would be fun to use the same algorithm they do for 
      organizing trending posts.

I would love to hear the feedback from the hackernews community. I'll take the suggestions into consideration as I continue to build.

Re: Show HN: I had issues organizing my favorite recipes, so I built this

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Post by preya2k » Sun, Oct 06, 2019, 10:54 PM UTC

Did you use any UI or CSS framework for this look?

Re: Show HN: I had issues organizing my favorite recipes, so I built this

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Post by joshmn » Sun, Oct 06, 2019, 10:55 PM UTC

preya2k wrote: post #3

Did you use any UI or CSS framework for this look?

This is based on Material Kit. https://www.creative-tim.com/product/material-kit-pro

Re: Show HN: I had issues organizing my favorite recipes, so I built this

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Post by HeWhoLurksLate » Sun, Oct 06, 2019, 11:00 PM UTC

x86mitch wrote: post #2

Some Background: Within the last year, I started down the route of eating out less and being more conscientious of what I was cooking. Google searches are a pretty good resource for finding recipes with one caveat, you can't store the recipes. I would save my favorites to a folder in my browser, but eventually, that folder became 120+ recipes links and ver time consuming to filter through when I wanted to make someth…

This is a clever website! I like it. One thing that would be nice is letting members directly download some sort of collection / list- preferably with formatting- so that if your site ever goes poof everyone doesn't lose all their data.

That being said, I do like this idea, and will see if I can introduce my mom to the site in a bit.

How do you intend to keep this site alive long-term?

Re: Show HN: I had issues organizing my favorite recipes, so I built this

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Post by navs » Sun, Oct 06, 2019, 11:05 PM UTC

Great work. I love coming across projects like these. Inspires me to "hack" and generally maintains my enthusiasm when the job doesn't.

A suggestion: - remove the delayed image zoom when hovering over a recipe. It's a bit jarring and it makes the webapp feel slow when it isn't. I'd explore another way to display the information or just remove the delay entirely.

Re: Show HN: I had issues organizing my favorite recipes, so I built this

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Post by x86mitch » Sun, Oct 06, 2019, 11:24 PM UTC

joshmn wrote: post #4

preya2k wrote: post #3

Did you use any UI or CSS framework for this look?

This is based on Material Kit. https://www.creative-tim.com/product/material-kit-pro

️exactly. I don't have a lot of talent when it comes to front end design. Having Material kit as a starting point was a huge help for me.

Re: Show HN: I had issues organizing my favorite recipes, so I built this

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Post by crummy » Sun, Oct 06, 2019, 11:27 PM UTC

I tried a few similar sites recently and settled on Paprika[1]. Not a big fan of their pricing plan (pay per client) but they work OK otherwise and I think they're probably the most popular in the space.

How would you compare your service to theirs?

[1] https://www.paprikaapp.com/

Re: Show HN: I had issues organizing my favorite recipes, so I built this

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Post by swsieber » Sun, Oct 06, 2019, 11:27 PM UTC

Ha. I started working on something similar recently. Many of the current sites are hard to use, so it seems the space could use some fresh contenders.

So kudos, it looks nice - I hope you find success.

Re: Show HN: I had issues organizing my favorite recipes, so I built this

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Post by x86mitch » Sun, Oct 06, 2019, 11:31 PM UTC

navs wrote: post #6

Great work. I love coming across projects like these. Inspires me to "hack" and generally maintains my enthusiasm when the job doesn't. A suggestion: - remove the delayed image zoom when hovering over a recipe. It's a bit jarring and it makes the webapp feel slow when it isn't. I'd explore another way to display the information or just remove the delay entirely.

Thanks for the kind words. This indeed was a hack project that I would work on in front of the TV when I had time after work. It feels good to have it in a somewhat "showoff-able" state. I think what made me stick to this project as opposed to the number of other ones I've given up on is that this was something I was using throughout the entire development. So I've been building something that I want to use. To your comment on the animation delay, I agree with you. I'll remove it in the next few days in favor of a better way to display the information.