That's cool!! Can this be adapted for curriculums? I am a medical student and have been posting medical curriculum at https://github.com/aloo/hack_medicine
Show HN: Github for recipes
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Re: Show HN: Github for recipes
#62That's cool!! Can this be adapted for curriculums? I am a medical student and have been posting medical curriculum at https://github.com/aloo/hack_medicine
It totally could be, send me an email and we can discuss it.
Re: Show HN: Github for recipes
#63I like how easy recipe discovery is on forkingrecipes. I think the waterfall layout and search bar were good decisions.
Mappum and I made something pretty similar for the last Node Knockout.
Like orangethirty said, foodies tend to be really visual, so we encourage the user to take a high quality photo by making it the focus of their recipe page.
Good job, I'm excited to see where you go with this. :)
Re: Show HN: Github for recipes
#64http://www.chefday.com/ is Heroku for cooking :)
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#65I like it, although I think there are other organizing principles to explore. Seconded on all the 'fork' comments its not at all intuitive to a chef what you mean here.
At present the top level abstraction is the recipe which you've sort of equated to 'source code' but when you look at something like Github or Sourceforge the high level abstraction is the 'project' and in the food world the closest I could come up with is 'cuisine.'
Consider one of my daughters favorite sites: http://smittenkitchen.com/ this site has lots of interesting recipes, and one might use them as a top level abstraction. So you've got the 'smittenkitchen' project equivlent or maybe 'smittenkitchen-breakfast' project which is breakfasts from smitten kitchen.
Then there are chefs which are much more important in the cooking world than individual developers are in the programming world. That is because the chef's 'taste' really defines the product in a way that is fundamental to the enjoyment. So you might want to build a '-' type model. Then you could do a pull of - and get various appetizers that Gordon Ramsay makes.
Of course that will get you into a licensing battle. Because like fonts, recipes have this weird quasi relationship to name vs instructions (can't copyright instructions, can copyright the name, google Font Copyright for more info)
Conceptually I think this is a really winner idea (sadly easy to copy) but if you get the right mix going and critical mass it could easily be as successful as github or sourceforge.
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#66I know that twitter boostrap is a great tool to start a project and to prove the concept. I love the idea as a amateur cook and developer (not amateur :D), but if you want to reach a larger public (non developers) I think you should invest some time (and probably money) into a good designer (by the way, is a website where we could really "rent" a webdesigner? I know some where you coul rent a coder but not a designer…
99designs and designcrowd, to name some..
Re: Show HN: Github for recipes
#67I started something similar[1] last Christmas (but lost interest as I never documented my own experiments). It's a great idea and there's need for a de facto standard source for recipes and cooking instructions. My "next step" was to contact sous chefs of famous restaurants. [1] http://palatelab.com/ Edit: rephrased.
Maybe Google's Recipe microdata?
http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&...
Which is standardized at schema.org: http://www.schema.org/Recipe
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#68http://www.chefday.com/ is Heroku for cooking :)
I thought Heroku for cooking would be that I, as a user, upload a recipe, and the food is cooked and delivered to me as a completed dish. If anything this is more like Arduino for cooking, maybe? An accessible jumping off point for an intimidating task?
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#69\o/ I asked for this 16 days ago ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5033978 ) and now it exists. God I love HackerNews :D Probably not related, though still cool. What I'd like to see though, is for all the pictures to be of food. There's a lot of happy faces, but the point of a cook book is to make me feel hungry when looking at the pictures. Not sure how to achieve that though.
Hey you may want to check out Fork the Cookbook [0]. It was there long before you asked the question.
Re: Show HN: Github for recipes
#70We launched Fork the Cookbook about the same time as Forking Recipes too. You might want to check it out: http://forkthecookbook.com
We try not to call it Github for Recipes because that's not our target market (although other people have called us Github for Recipes)
We blog over at http://theforkingchef.com so you might also want to check that out.
OK, self promotion over