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Re: Show HN: Github for recipes

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Post by dpick »

mvc wrote: post #89
dpick wrote: post #10

Hey Guys, I'm the creator of Forking Recipes, I'll be happy to answer any questions you have and thanks for taking a look!

I just bookmarked a couple of recipes. It would be nice if the default name when saving as a favorite included the name of the recipe rather than the name of the site (particularly for those who want to bookmark more than one recipe). Think you probably just have to make the " " include the recipe name.

I really should have done that a long time ago. I'll add it now, thanks for the tip.

Re: Show HN: Github for recipes

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Post by MartinCron »

dpick wrote: post #57
jfaucett wrote: post #3

this idea is awesome. The "forking" idea is great for recipes, but you need almost something like a difftool to be able to tell what's different and why? I think with a better UI and way's for users to interact with each other this could be extremely cool. Stick with it and good luck :)

There actually is a really basic diff tool right now (Click on revisions on the recipe page). I'm working on creating a more advanced one now. Any ideas on what a good interface might be?

A diff visualization for ingredients should be pretty easy, you could show left and right and the delta between them as three distinct columns.

As for other distinctions, such as "mince" instead of "dice", that would be tricker, but you could probably do that with a human-friendly strikethrough coupled with a handwriting typeface to indicate what was changed.

Re: Show HN: Github for recipes

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Post by benjaminwootton »

chewxy wrote: post #70

We 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

>> OK, self promotion over

Good. Not cool to hog someone elses HN thread.

Re: Show HN: Github for recipes

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Post by chewxy »

cdr wrote: post #88
chewxy wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey there, it's not a feature we've pushed out live yet. There is code to see diffs, but no on the public facing UI yet. The reason is this: We don't want to aim at the tech crowd (which is why you haven't seen a Show HN from Fork the Cookbook). The tech crowd knows what diffs are. We're used to reading things that look like this: + def function(var1, var2): - def oldfunction(var1, var2): But the public aren't used t…

I'm working on something in a domain not dissimilar to recipes, so I'm always interested to see different diff presentations.

Tell you what, I'll let you know first thing when we have diffs ready to be presented to the public

Re: Show HN: Github for recipes

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Post by chewxy »

benjaminwootton wrote: post #94
chewxy wrote: post #70

We 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

>> OK, self promotion over Good. Not cool to hog someone elses HN thread.

Hee, just being cheeky. Of course David's free to be cheeky if we ever post a ShowHN

Re: Show HN: Github for recipes

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Post by justincormack »

fosap wrote: post #49

I like it. It seems you are aiming at geeks. And I think geeks want a powerful search interface and this is why I haven't found a website i really like. I want to make queries like "Recipes with Tomatoes, Paprika but without meat of type soup" or "I only have Garlic, Paprika, bread, Cream, flour, and sugar, eggs and spices , what is the closest meaningful lunch? Not in natural language, but with a interface. Like a t…

"I only have Garlic, Paprika, bread, Cream, flour, and sugar, eggs and spices". Thats not a sane way to cook. You can season your eggs on toast (scrambled eggs with garlic makes a change), but there is nothing else sanely cookable form that list. You need to shop better, this is not a search problem. (I appreciate that you made up that list, but thats not the point).

Re: Show HN: Github for recipes

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Post by stigi »

chewxy wrote: post #74
cheald wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd like to second this, and also say that you should really work hard to establish "fork" and "forking" in contexts that make sense to non-developers. They're second nature for us, but non-technical cooks will probably either read it as "fucking recipes", or conflate fork (to diverge) with fork (eating utensil). That said, awesome idea.

Hi, I am part of ForkTheCookbook [0]. We actually actively face this problem, which is why in our FAQ, the 2nd question tries to answer that: http://forkthecookbook.com/faq [0] http://forkthecookbook.com

Hi chewxy,

Do you have any insides how much those recipes get actually forked? I'd be afraid, that forking might be a nice idea, but actually isn't that common.

Thanks for your insight.

Re: Show HN: Github for recipes

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Post by chewxy »

stigi wrote: post #98
chewxy wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi, I am part of ForkTheCookbook [0]. We actually actively face this problem, which is why in our FAQ, the 2nd question tries to answer that: http://forkthecookbook.com/faq [0] http://forkthecookbook.com

Hi chewxy, Do you have any insides how much those recipes get actually forked? I'd be afraid, that forking might be a nice idea, but actually isn't that common. Thanks for your insight.

Hey, if you have played around with the website, you'd notice a lot of forks. We spent about 3 months convincing people forking was a good thing before finally launching it.

If you wish to know more, contact us at admin[at]forkthecookbook.com . Sorry for this, as half of us are terribly ill, and we take turns to answer questions

Re: Show HN: Github for recipes

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Post by juliennakache »

alanctgardner2 wrote: post #68
juliennakache wrote: post #64

http://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?

Fair point. But with Heroku, you still need to build your app yourself. Coming up with a recipe is really easy compared to build an app from scratch. Maybe we're the Ruby on Rails of cooking. What do you think?
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