Is there a version for iPad?
Rate my iPhone app: cooking recipes as Gantt charts. Tell me what you think.
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Re: Rate my iPhone app: cooking recipes as Gantt charts. Tell me what you think.
#12You should tailor this for the iPad, particularly in portrait mode. I very often follow Epicurious recipes on my iPad by standing it in the dock. The big difficulty is trying to read and parse the cooking instructions into a workflow. This could reduce that pain.
Re: Rate my iPhone app: cooking recipes as Gantt charts. Tell me what you think.
#13Who designed your site? I like it? What kind of marketing are you doing?
The design is by my girlfriend, if you need design projects feel free to email her at smhuotari@gmail.com :)
Re: Rate my iPhone app: cooking recipes as Gantt charts. Tell me what you think.
#14The Cooking For Engineers guy (http://cookingforengineers.com) has been using a similar format for his recipes, but in a table format. I think this is a great improvement.
Are the timers integrated with the recipe? For example, if the recipe says "bake for 30 minutes" could tapping that start a 30 minute timer?
I think this is a great app! Try to get it in the hands of places like Bon Appetit and chowhound.com.
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#15Love the idea. Using Gantt charts to plan a meal has never occurred to me, but the idea is brilliant. I'm going to have to try doing that some time. I do have two questions though. From the page it's unclear if I can easily enter my own recipes and also can it handle preparing several different recipes (soup, starter, main course, side dishes and desert) in parallel? If it can't, the app would be pretty useless to me…
At current state it is just minimum viable product, therefore not much functionality.
Based on the feedback we have for the first day since realease, we will definitely keep developing the app further. Thanks.
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#16This is a fantastic idea. I can't count the number of times I read through a recipe while preparing, only to have my timing still be off.
Re: Rate my iPhone app: cooking recipes as Gantt charts. Tell me what you think.
#17You should tailor this for the iPad, particularly in portrait mode. I very often follow Epicurious recipes on my iPad by standing it in the dock. The big difficulty is trying to read and parse the cooking instructions into a workflow. This could reduce that pain.
Guess we are making iPad version as soon as possible :)
Re: Rate my iPhone app: cooking recipes as Gantt charts. Tell me what you think.
#18The Cooking For Engineers guy ( http://cookingforengineers.com ) has been using a similar format for his recipes, but in a table format. I think this is a great improvement. Are the timers integrated with the recipe? For example, if the recipe says "bake for 30 minutes" could tapping that start a 30 minute timer? I think this is a great app! Try to get it in the hands of places like Bon Appetit and chowhound.com.
I guess the timer integration is first on the list, thanks for the suggestion.
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#19Love your graphic style. Very cute, reminds me of Saturday morning cartoons. Warm, fuzzy feeling. However, the icon is a little too cluttered and does not represent your app well in a first-impression sense.
How are you representing the critical path?
Some minor issues. 1) Since the Food Gantt chart is displayed landscape, not intuitive that you have to swipe left to go back to the main recipe list. 2) If you are scrolled way down on a Food Gantt chart and go back to the main recipe list and choose another one - the newly selected recipe is at the same scroll offset as the previous (e.g. already scrolled way down).
Suggestions. 1) Show the timer on the Gantt charts - e.g. simple moving forward animation (blink the time remaining for the X cooking step). 2) The standalone timer is a little hard to use and maybe too cutesy - a standard digital timer might work better but might not fit with your aesthetics 3) Social. If you can work out a deal with a cooking website (structure it as win/win - they get an iPhone app, you get the recipes) - you can seed your database in a hurry (I assume the custom graphics for ingredients would max out or could be genericized for the time being). 4) Judging solely on the app size (14.2mb), it appears that you may not be rendering the Gantt charts (e.g. they are drawn by hand? which is why you don't have timer integration). If this is true, this is your critical path - you need to render the Gantt charts as soon as possible.
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#20Awesome, I've been wanting someone to make this for years, and I even drew up some specs to make this myself. It's in principle quite similar to http://www.cookingforengineers.com/ .
But the make or break deal on this is going to be the online recipe collection / organizing application, so that you can plan meals on the website, upload the shopping list to a shopping app (or make it so that another app can download it), and have the phone app access the prepared cooking instructions. The '22 tasty recipes' on the main page makes me think that there are only 22 recipes, and that you can't add any as a user, is this correct?
Secondly, are you planning an Android version? I'd pay $10 for it, just for checking it out. If the online service works well, if it can suggest daily menus for me and automatically make shopping lists + cooking instructions and if that works well for ingredients readily available here, I'd even pay $10/month for it. Then over time it should learn my tastes by letting me rate the recipe suggestions and adjust future suggestions on that.
I have thought about using car navigation systems to run something like this. You'd put one on the fridge or kitchen wall with the suction cup that they usually come with, and the software would run on that device. They're usually more rugged than phones. I know someone has a Linux version that runs om TomTom, I don't know if anyone made an Android for TomTom yet...