Nice idea. You should get Schema Json (http://schema.org/) on this so the recipes can be crawled properly.
Show HN: Cinc – GitHub for recipes
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#132Should have the fork icon be an actual fork rather than the github icon.
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#133I'm a huge fan of the fact this does weight conversions (cooking by weight is now my favourite, and I've been looking for a site that is just weights, so this looks like a win to me :-) ). One note I'd make, though, is that US, UK and Australian cups are all different sizes. (and possibly others?) And from the one recipe I saw it looks like you're using UK cups? But, possibly not as well... Either way, it might be wo…
> Somewhat related, some sites call out egg weights too, and that might be something to try and do here too? Some technical recipe books I've used just specify the weight of total egg. Not that useful for a home cook though. For that matter, I'm curious what egg size descriptions is like in other countries; in Australian shops they're like condom sizes - I haven't seen 'small' or 'medium' eggs for over a decade.
In Germany, they are "S", "M", "L", "XL"; although I've seen "S" only once, ever.
Re: Show HN: Cinc – GitHub for recipes
#134Nice! It is clear you put a lot of care into this, and I am sure there is a bucket full of features you want to get to, but I have a big request. What I really want is one step beyond a place to store recipes. I want a meal planning site! I want to create a pool of recipes that we like, and plug in how often this week we will eat at home. Then outcomes a grocery list and a plan for each day. Maybe it even sees what w…
Hey I'm also working on this (separate from OP). In the meantime you might check out https://www.eatthismuch.com/ .
I've given ETM a go for a year (I was a paid member) but the ingredients were very hard to find in Germany so I gave up in the end.
Re: Show HN: Cinc – GitHub for recipes
#135Please pay someone to add a few thousand recipes, and please keep working on this for a few years. This can be huge.
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#136Nice idea. Just that code is a universal language, english is not. Is there any way to handle multiple languages for a same recipe outside of forking? forking is one way to adresse this issue but there would not be any other value to the fork than translating a recipe.
Just asking
Re: Show HN: Cinc – GitHub for recipes
#137The idea for this has been around for a for a while. http://forkthecookbook.com/ goes back to 2012. And its an interesting idea. Recipes can't be copyrighted and and recipes are generally derivative. The data is generally well structured, and fairly standardized (ingredients, equipment, instructions, photo, with optional fields for prep & cook time, servings, notes, difficulty, etc). But there are two primary issues:…
Yeah, it's interesting how many people have had the same idea at some point or another. I was fiddling around with Rails and AWS for a bit around 4 years ago and used the same idea for a tiny project. It's a bit like deja vu. https://github.com/ehotinger/OldCode/tree/master/VariantChef
A lot of us have tried this idea, me included two years ago. It seems like a logical idea, but there really isn't enough people looking for it.
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#138Wow! My friend and I had this idea years ago.. possibly pre-GitHub. I am glad someone finally made it! Well done. My particular interest was seeing how a recipe deviates from the original.. a recipe graph of sorts. That would a fun way to visually explore and find related recipes that are similar in ingredients.
It's been done to death already. No one really seems to want this, even though it's awesome branching recipes.
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#139This looks promising and fairly well done, but it's lacking a few critical features IMO. The first obvious one is a way to Diff a recipe and it's Forks (unless I missed that). The harder and maybe more important one, is an issue that GitHub itself still hasn't figured out how to solve either. There should be a process for a fork of a recipe being able to explain why it is better than the original, and have the fork b…
> There should be a process for a fork of a recipe being able to explain why it is better than the original, and have the fork be able to be voted on That'd be a nice edition to GitHub's forks page. Over there star count might be the best proxy.
I though the README.md and project stars was there for that precise reason. Am I wrong ?
Re: Show HN: Cinc – GitHub for recipes
#140Love it!
Would be most useful to me with calorie support. I see some users are hacking it by adding it to the title or in the notes. That should be a strong hint.