This looks pretty nice. Is it only available as-a-service? I'm not satisfied with the recipe server I'm currently using, and would love to entertain an alternative (writing my own is about 30th on my to-do list).
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Re: Show HN: I had issues organizing my favorite recipes, so I built this
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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.
Cool! Good for you.
I think the reactions you're getting are likely focusing on this project as a useful product or a business, not a coding exercise.
Because it's well-trod territory, with existing products that have been around for years, you're probably seeing more negativity than you would have if we all knew this was a learning project.
That said, not every step of every coder's learning process is broadly interesting to a community of people who have been programming for decades in some cases.
Usually these kinds of posts are better received when they come as a blog post about what the person's background is, what they were trying to learn, and how they felt about using those tools for the first time.
Re: Show HN: I had issues organizing my favorite recipes, so I built this
#163"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"
This comment breaks both the Show HN guidelines and the site guidelines. Would you please read them and follow the rules when posting here? It's important not to poison the threads like this.
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Yet another asshole comment on HN. How about being supportive of new endeavors? Nobody got anywhere without a little self promotion.
The "Show HN" post is allowed and encouraged [1], it's shame that we always see comments like that here. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Not always, or even close to most of the time—but the poisonous comments unfortunately stand out so much that they loom large in one's impression of these threads.
Re: Show HN: I had issues organizing my favorite recipes, so I built this
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What kind of solutions do you think are possible for this issue? I can totally see your point, but I am unsure how to fix it for a person who really isn't interested in learning tons of recipes for each season. I think the first flow is still fine, but maybe should just include going local and buying in-season items. Knowing what you eat is important but I can understand why people are drawn to the easiness of a cook…
A reverse cookbook app, I have these ingredients, what can I make?
IMO a better choice would be a cookbook app where you input a rough location & it takes that and the date to determine what's in season, then lists recipes using the probably-available ingredients. The "normal" flow (figure out what you're making, get the parts, make the thing) is preserved, you just do it with in-season ingredients.
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#166Tangential rant: The publishing industry pushes more and more cookbooks every year, and between traditional cookbooks and more recent YouTube channels, most recipes are much more fantasy entertainment than serious attempts at trying to get people to take more control over how their food is made. The problem is that cookbook recipes distort the flow of food preparation: Find an appealing recipe -> look up the necessar…
What kind of solutions do you think are possible for this issue? I can totally see your point, but I am unsure how to fix it for a person who really isn't interested in learning tons of recipes for each season. I think the first flow is still fine, but maybe should just include going local and buying in-season items. Knowing what you eat is important but I can understand why people are drawn to the easiness of a cook…
It's not about learning recipes, it's about learning cooking as a matter of technique - everything from knife skills to the correct temperature for burners (high for boiling water, medium for bringing oil up to temperature, low for simmering sauces) to how to salt and season food for taste. These are simple skills which are generally not covered in recipes (due to their generic applicability) and, honestly, should be taught in high school as part of a home economics course.
Re: Show HN: I had issues organizing my favorite recipes, so I built this
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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.
You may enjoy:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19221446 | Remembering a Programming Language that Helped Shape the Digital New York Times
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20877047 | 25 Years of New York Times Website Design History
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20940209 | New York Times Developer Portal
Re: Show HN: I had issues organizing my favorite recipes, so I built this
#168I never quite liked the traditional way of how recipes are written. Ingredient list followed by instructions. I hate it when I get to a point in the instructions like "add the eggs" and now I have to check the entire list of ingredients to see how many eggs the instruction refers to. It's a pointless indirection.
What I do is what I call inline recipes. It's just the instructions, but whenever an ingredients is mentioned, it also has the amount. E. g. "add two eggs". Every amount+ingredient is underlined in red. That way I can skim over the recipe easily when I'm preparing my shopping list.
Re: Show HN: I had issues organizing my favorite recipes, so I built this
#169Pretty happy user of anylist[1] here: contains all my recipes, when I go to the shop I just select a few recipes and have a shopping list. [1]: https://www.anylist.com/
I haven't used the recipe feature yet, but AnyList is my go-to grocery list app. Big fan of rearrangeable aisles, preferred stores for items, and the ability to check off items in real-time on two devices in-store.
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#170Very cool, a similar site I use is: https://onetsp.com.