I clicked on a photo wondering how to make a Joakim Bugge, turns out its someones name and there's no recipe. Maybe the site is not for me?
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Re: Rate my startup: coookin.com
#12Any site around pictures of food gets my vote :) However, the tag line "beautiful food photos" isn't right: the pictures aren't all that pretty. - When you "zoom" into a photo, ie. go to the photo detail page, the actual picture is not much larger than the thumbnail. If this is about photos of food, the photo should be larger. - All the emphasis on "beautiful photos": I think you have the wrong angle here. Amateur fo…
If you click the photo on the recipe page, it shows a large image.
Re: Rate my startup: coookin.com
#13Did not sign up for all the reasons listed in this thread - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1665498 Nice idea otherwise, but I would move "It's all about photos" to the front page. Otherwise it is very easy to assume that it's a Dribbble for the recipes.
Thanks for the suggestion, it might serve as a better tagline. Regarding the sign in, I am very happy with the current solution - I don't see the hassle? Everybody has a Facebook/twitter/google account these days :)
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#14I found a recipe I liked within the first two minutes, precisely because of the photos. However, after that, I realized it just wasn't my kind of site. I like looking for new recipes and the emphasis on photos would be a great thing for me, but there's no way to filter or categorize stuff.
Valid argument, searching and filtering needs more work!
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#15I found a recipe I liked within the first two minutes, precisely because of the photos. However, after that, I realized it just wasn't my kind of site. I like looking for new recipes and the emphasis on photos would be a great thing for me, but there's no way to filter or categorize stuff.
I've got nothing to do with the OP, but what sort of filtering and categorization do you think you'd use? By cuisine? Ingredient?
Re: Rate my startup: coookin.com
#16I found a recipe I liked within the first two minutes, precisely because of the photos. However, after that, I realized it just wasn't my kind of site. I like looking for new recipes and the emphasis on photos would be a great thing for me, but there's no way to filter or categorize stuff.
I've got nothing to do with the OP, but what sort of filtering and categorization do you think you'd use? By cuisine? Ingredient?
As many of the following as possible: cuisine, ingredients, type of dish (i.e. salad, meat, dessert), difficulty (of preparation), time (i.e. how long it takes to prepare it).
If I had to choose three, I would choose type, difficulty and time. Those three would be "must haves" for me, cuisine would be a "should have" and ingredients would be "nice to have".
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#17Looks really cool and very exciting to a foody like me. It would be nice though to have more details about the recipe structured into some of the posts. Some pics, titles, and details barely tell you what the recipe is... Maybe you can create incentives for some of your submitters to add the recipe and get entered into a recipe DB as well. Best recipe can receive major attention... etc.
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#18I think this site will succeed or fail based on the quality of the food images. I would recommend you look at how opensourcefood.com cultivated high quality images from their community. If a low standard is set, I don't think there will be much you can do to make the site valuable.
Re: Rate my startup: coookin.com
#19I'm no match for this Joakim Bugge character who has recently cranked out 4 new dishes!
In all seriousness, I would at least provide a way to broadly tag dishes according to ethnic influence/price of ingredients/or time to prepare.
From here, I would personally prefer a slider to browse through the dishes rather than scrolling down a seemingly bottomless page.
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#20Looks ok for a first effort, but check this site out: www.mycookingdiary.com My wife loves it, it has great, large photos and a cool navigation system.
Anyway, I clicked on one of your ads, so at least you will make some money.