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

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Post by x86mitch »

tomlong wrote: post #119
x86mitch wrote: post #118

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Hey cryptica. The intention of this post was not to "raise money from investors" (the service is free and I have no plans to monetize it so it would be a terrible investment). The intention was to show off something I've been working on in my free time. The project did indeed start because I had issues filtering through all the saved recipes in my browser's bookmarks.

Has it been going a while, possibly under another name? I tried to log in and was told my email address had already used the service, and sure enough, a password reset had me logged in. I have no recollection of using it, so it may have been some time ago. I like it. It doesn't quite scratch my itch, but it looks a useful tool.

thats funny, ya I renamed it from recipepoodle.

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

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Post by roel_v »

inferiorhuman wrote: post #27
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 ended up building my own solution to this problem too (though mine is not open to public) Me too, although I'm solving a different problem: organization. I'm not so concerned with cost or nutritional value. In the end I went with a somewhat simpler route: LaTeX (well xelatex). I built a couple document classes, one creates a letter sized document and one creates a 4x6 index card sized document. I used the former to…

You mind sharing? My home grown solution also focuses on generating physical documents, but I'm not so happy with my Markdown + custom formatting engine solution.

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

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Post by KurtMueller »

kfrzcode wrote: post #114
aaronbrethorst wrote: post #53

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(NYT cooking very much excepted.) This is a consistently excellent resource, and I love the many small, essential bits of polish they've applied to their iOS app, like preventing your iPhone's screen from turning off when you're reading a recipe.

Everything I've seen from the NYT web team(s) has been stellar work.

I'm wondering if NYT has a tech blog. They seem like an excellent resource to model oneself.

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

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Post by KurtMueller »

0xfaded wrote: post #101
fastturtle wrote: post #96

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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.

C'mon now... talking about data attributes on a html element is not illegal.

allrecipes.com has data attributes on their ingredient list. seriouseats.com has css classes on their ingredients. those are two that i just checked on the spot.

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

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Post by ghaff »

inferiorhuman wrote: post #97
shaklee3 wrote: post #64

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Cook's illustrated/ATK as well, if you have a subscription. The quality is superb.

Cook's Illustrated is great, their equipment reviews are top notch, and their sweet potato pie recipe is my goto every year. Although like NYT they made unsubscribing obnoxious. Something I'm surprised I haven't seen mentioned is Serious Eats. J Kenji Lopez-Alt does some absolutely excellent recipes (hello Halal Cart Chicken & Rice).

The main thing that bugs me about CI is that I subscribe to their website and they still want me to buy an upgrade to access all the content. I get that there are subscription tiers but it just somehow feels a bit obnoxious to me.

Serious Eats is good too.

I used to use Epicurious quite a bit back when they were a pretty early-on serious website for recipes. But with the demise of Gourmet and other sites like the NYT upping their game, I don't consider them top-tier any longer.

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

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Post by Terretta »

KurtMueller wrote: post #123
kfrzcode wrote: post #114

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Everything I've seen from the NYT web team(s) has been stellar work.

I'm wondering if NYT has a tech blog. They seem like an excellent resource to model oneself.

Times Open — Sharing our stories of making digital products at The New York Times.

https://open.nytimes.com

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

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Post by oromier »

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"

I mean, even if it is like you are saying "He wants to raise money" what of it ? if it is a cool idea and it helps people then by all means good luck! Don't be jealous !

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

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Post by cushychicken »

x86mitch wrote: post #120
smt88 wrote: post #110

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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.

At its core that mostly what it is. The project forced me to get out of my comfort zone as a programmer. I picked up 2 new language/frameoworks (rails and angular), had to learn about building infrastructure on top of aws, deep dived into elasticsearch and then pollish everything enough to get it to a "showoff-able"(word?) state.

Everyone should learn to code, but not everyone should bother showing it off, apparently. /s

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

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Post by jakemor »

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"

Yet another asshole comment on HN. How about being supportive of new endeavors? Nobody got anywhere without a little self promotion.
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