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Re: Show HN: Github for recipes

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Post by dpick »

orangethirty wrote: post #9

You need to hire a designer for this. Cooking/recipes/food markets are really visually driven. You also need to define what a fork is right on the landing page. A fork for a cook is not the same as a fork for a programmer. What you should have is a good header area that has the application work flow explained in graphics. Example: Alice liked Juan's recide for thai rice. She wanted to create her own version. Alice fo…

I totally agree, unfortunately I don't have money to pay one and finding someone to work with me for free hasn't been easy :(.

Re: Show HN: Github for recipes

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Post by twiss »

Quoting http://www.badstartupidea.com/:

First, go and find out about Github. Figure out what it is they do, how they attract users, and how they make money. Github is already operating well in the Programming space, but perhaps the same basic ideas can be applied in the Cooking space. That's where you come in.

Edit: I think it's a great idea, it's just funny that that site mentioned this after only a couple refreshes.

Re: Show HN: Github for recipes

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Post by dbaupp »

orangethirty wrote: post #9

You need to hire a designer for this. Cooking/recipes/food markets are really visually driven. You also need to define what a fork is right on the landing page. A fork for a cook is not the same as a fork for a programmer. What you should have is a good header area that has the application work flow explained in graphics. Example: Alice liked Juan's recide for thai rice. She wanted to create her own version. Alice fo…

Possibly with a comparison like "like a fork in a road or tree".

Re: Show HN: Github for recipes

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Post by yuxt »

twiss wrote: post #12

Quoting http://www.badstartupidea.com/ : First, go and find out about Github. Figure out what it is they do, how they attract users, and how they make money. Github is already operating well in the Programming space, but perhaps the same basic ideas can be applied in the Cooking space. That's where you come in. Edit: I think it's a great idea, it's just funny that that site mentioned this after only a couple refreshe…

I assume that's where it started http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5119787

Re: Show HN: Github for recipes

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Post by twiss »

yuxt wrote: post #14
twiss wrote: post #12

Quoting http://www.badstartupidea.com/ : First, go and find out about Github. Figure out what it is they do, how they attract users, and how they make money. Github is already operating well in the Programming space, but perhaps the same basic ideas can be applied in the Cooking space. That's where you come in. Edit: I think it's a great idea, it's just funny that that site mentioned this after only a couple refreshe…

I assume that's where it started http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5119787

That's really cool, actually.

Re: Show HN: Github for recipes

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Post by dpick »

twiss wrote: post #12

Quoting http://www.badstartupidea.com/ : First, go and find out about Github. Figure out what it is they do, how they attract users, and how they make money. Github is already operating well in the Programming space, but perhaps the same basic ideas can be applied in the Cooking space. That's where you come in. Edit: I think it's a great idea, it's just funny that that site mentioned this after only a couple refreshe…

That is really funny! I actually made this in the past few weekends so it's a total coincidence.

Re: Show HN: Github for recipes

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Post by dbaupp »

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 really like this! Hopefully it gains momentum because it'd be really neat to have [a tool that can be used as] a crowd-sourced recipe-optimiser.

On a different note, I'm on a slow internet connection and it's very noticeable that the page is huge and not optimised for bandwidth (some thumbnailing and gzip-ing would be good to add at some point, to make the site as snappy as possible! :) ). https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights#url=h...

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