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

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Post by dba7dba »

swalsh wrote: post #15

I ended up building my own solution to this problem too (though mine is not open to public) The main thing I wanted to optimize was menu planning. So I wrote a genetic algorithm which will generate a menu, add the score, mutate the menu in some way, and iterate. In my database I have a rough price per ingredient, and my families enjoyment of the recipe (though I have kind of a lagging gradient which reduces the score…

I have been thinking about building something like this also. I work from home and so I open the fridge throughout the day for 3 meals, snack, lunch for kids etc.

And I noticed how much is thrown out despite attempts to not do so, because different items have different shelf life.

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

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Post by dba7dba »

swalsh wrote: post #20
x86mitch wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This sounds like something I would use if it were public. It would be awesome If I could swap recipes from the plan. For example, if I didn't feel like having stir fry I could swap it out for a meal with similar points.

I've thought about making it public, but it's highly optimized for me... also therea no gui. It's just a command line app in python. I could make it open source though. It would be neat to see how other people modify it.

Please make it open source if possible. I would love to be able to use it.

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

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Post by cproctor »

My take was a little different; I wanted a CLI app that lets me search my recipes, put menus together, and then see views for shopping and cooking: https://github.com/cproctor/cookbook/

One thing I'm looking forward to adding is tagging recipe steps as do-ahead, mis en place, early, late, and last minute. This will make it a bit easier to think through the mental gantt chart I use when cooking a dinner composed of a bunch of dishes. Also a simple scraping utility for importing.

The thing all these have in common is that they're reactions against the festering cesspool of hostile-UI, low-information-density, pages full of affiliate links that are today's cooking sites. (NYT cooking very much excepted.)

I wish we had a better mechanism for including more people in the project of iteratively refining the way we think about life tasks and improving the tools we use to think with. I think this is a great conversation and wish more people who like to cook could participate.

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

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Post by mtlynch »

This is neat!

When I was eating keto, I got frustrated with how bad the search functionality was on all the keto blogs, so I made a similar tool It's a keto recipe searcher/aggregator:

https://ketohub.io

During this, I ended up going down a long rabbit hole trying to figure out how to parse recipe ingredients properly, and eventually spun off a separate ingredient parsing service:

https://zestfuldata.com (the service)

https://mtlynch.io/resurrecting-1/ (a 3-part blog series on how I built it)

OP - if you're interested in adding ingredient parsing to the site, I'd be happy to work with you.

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

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Post by x86mitch »

mtlynch wrote: post #45

This is neat! When I was eating keto, I got frustrated with how bad the search functionality was on all the keto blogs, so I made a similar tool It's a keto recipe searcher/aggregator: https://ketohub.io During this, I ended up going down a long rabbit hole trying to figure out how to parse recipe ingredients properly, and eventually spun off a separate ingredient parsing service: https://zestfuldata.com (the service…

Zestful looks awesome! I'll take the chance to look into it more over the next few days. But looks like something that I would benefit from using :)

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

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Post by bpye »

I quite like this - I have one suggestion though. Please convert between US measurements and metric. I much prefer metric and for this reason tend to stick to UK/European websites - but occasionally there will be something on a US website I want to try - having to go through and convert is a chore.

It would also be great to be able to save known substitutions - like sometimes I have to use plain flour and baking powder rather than self-raising because it's what I have in the cupboard.

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

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Post by swsieber »

m_ke wrote: post #29
swsieber wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm also working on something like that for myself (because of a colicky baby and hearing that low FODMAP diets help). Right now I have basic schema.org recipe ingestion working. I'd be interested in chatting about it, but you dont have any contact info listed in your profile.

Also working on some NLP and ML for parsing recipes at bite.ai so would love to chat as well. if you're using schema.org there's a nice filtered data dump from the common crawl available here: http://webdatacommons.org/structureddata/2018-12/stats/schem...

Oh man. This is such a great resource. I wish I could give you multiple upvotes. Thanks for sharing!

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

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Post by x86mitch »

SpyKiIIer wrote: post #47

How is this different then the app/website CopyMeThat? I use that app all the time on my ipad to save recipes from random sites to my own "recipe book"

I've never used CopyMeThat but I just looked through it quickly. It looks like a good app for solving a similar problem that feastgenius is solving. I think the difference with what I built is that it also calculates the nutrition content per serving. This was important for me personally because I use the app to search for recipes in certain macros ranges. For example, Finding chicken recipes in a macro range of (carbs:30-50, protein:20-40, fat:10-20). The search for feastgenius was built on top of elasticseach and in the near future I'll be building out more features based around really robust searching. I'll also be focusing time on building features for discovering new recipes. I hope that answers the question :)
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