Show HN: RecipeWriter – An editor to write recipes

We built this with a lot of feedback and help from the HN community.

When Cucumbertown[1] launched we had a lot of HNers like Trey who used to keep recipes in a Dropbox folder and share. The first version of the editor was form based (a bit like a survey form) and inhibited copy/paste and free form cursor movements. We hacked around that version for sometime time till we hit the limits. A textfield could only do so much.

So some time back we decided to do a full rewrite, ground up pushing our limits with everything we learned.

This editor tries to be unobtrusive, simple and smart. The engine behind the scenes does a lot of work including parsing, numbering, autocomplete etc. all the way to a beautiful output.

Here’s an example: http://www.cucumbertown.com/onion-puffs-recipe-dish

This is just a start and there’s a lot ahead of us. As always we would love your feedback.

I hope this help HNers like munificient[2] move from textfiles to a better solution.

[1] http://cucumbertown.com/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8358827

The homepage is the only one with a signup page. Everything else is accessible directly.

e.g. http://raymondsfood.cucumbertown.com/

Pretty! Well done.

Can you let the recipe page be only about that dish? The "similar dishes" below it can all be collapsed if needed. Because many will just want to print scroll the actual content and not get lost in other things.

Requests that'd make be use it: * special indian section (or others) * Special indian + vegetarian. add the greed/red dot and you instantly have a large audience. * I guess you could just allow special tags, and that could make above possible. * printable/downloadable book. Not strictly necessary, I could just run phantomjs and print out a list of pages, but if this was pre-done that'd be nice.

No autocomplete for julienne, sautee, carmelize. It seems like this was written without any input from a trained chef.

Hint: http://www.d.umn.edu/~alphanu/cookery/glossary_cooking.html

Hey! This is really nice. Maybe I missed it but there doesn't seem to be a way to have the ingredients be proportional to the number of people you want to prepare it for. Of course, some things are not linear, and there should be a way to specify it (like the $ in Excel or Calc).