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

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Post by 0xfaded »

fastturtle wrote: post #96
0xfaded wrote: post #89

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I've done this as well using scraped recipes from a website that conveniently labeled all ingredients with data tags for their referral program. Although my goal was to find recipes that shared ingredients to cut back on wastage. I used a constraint solver ( https://developers.google.com/optimization ) and asked it to produce 5 recipes requiring the minimum number of ingredients, and was rather amused that the first…

That sounds like a fun project, where did you get the data from?

Don't really want to say because of legality of scraping, but it was a big one with convenient data attributes on the ingredient elements. Shouldn't be too hard to figure out.

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

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Post by blue_devil »

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've a different take. I use a voice diary app that I built (originally for hiking trips) - I take a picture of the ingredients, then record the cooking instructions, and replay this when cooking (the picture shows as background when you play the recording). I add notes about the ingredients, or tags to the recording.

It's easier for me to "listen" to a recipe and pause as needed, vs. to look it up. It's a more casual approach though - no constraint optimisation, or anything like this, but I find it works great for me. Also I can share a recipe this way with someone else by just sharing the recording p2p.

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

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Post by Centaurefox »

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

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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.

I would also love to see it ! Please make it opensource if you can, thanks

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

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Post by scottmcdot »

Is it possible to promote some kind of consistency in measuring? My wife disregards a lot of American cooking sites (am based in Australia) because the conversion of cups/teaspoons etc is sometimes open to interpretation and can lead to a disaster.

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

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Post by nerdponx »

scottmcdot wrote: post #105

Is it possible to promote some kind of consistency in measuring? My wife disregards a lot of American cooking sites (am based in Australia) because the conversion of cups/teaspoons etc is sometimes open to interpretation and can lead to a disaster.

It's open to interpretation? Not that it's an ideal measuring system, but all those units should have unambiguous metric equivalents.

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

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Post by workthrowaway »

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.

kudos! i got similar problems with optimizing recipes & groceries, but i never got past google keep and apple reminder.

anyway, a word of caution about open sourcing. people are quick to scream that you make the source available. but what about this? an article/blog describing in more details how you solved the problem instead? few people ever ask that.

what i saw with open source is, once you put the code out there, people will start requesting features, making you carry the burden of maintenance, etc. but ofc there are good things too. i just haven't seen it with small niche projects.

my 2 cents.

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

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Post by fredley »

scottmcdot wrote: post #105

Is it possible to promote some kind of consistency in measuring? My wife disregards a lot of American cooking sites (am based in Australia) because the conversion of cups/teaspoons etc is sometimes open to interpretation and can lead to a disaster.

I cannot understand how anyone puts up with measuring stuff by volume (other than liquids). 1 cup of flour is a hugely variable amount depending on how compressed it is. Don't even get me started on heaped cups. For baking in particular where everything needs to be very precise, it's bonkers to see recipes without weight measurements.

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

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Post by cryptica »

"I had issues organizing my favorite recipes, so I built this". Sounds like BS. How many 'favorite' recipes can one person have such that they have trouble 'organizing' them?

I think the title of this link should be "I wanted to raise money from investors so I built an app and came up with clickbait scratch-my-own-itch startup rhetoric to get attention on HN"

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

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Post by smt88 »

cryptica wrote: post #109

"I had issues organizing my favorite recipes, so I built this". Sounds like BS. How many 'favorite' recipes can one person have such that they have trouble 'organizing' them? I think the title of this link should be "I wanted to raise money from investors so I built an app and came up with clickbait scratch-my-own-itch startup rhetoric to get attention on HN"

Normally I'd say you're being too cynical, but in this case it really does look like little more than a recipes-only (social?) bookmarking service.
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