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Launch HN: Kitchenful (YC S21) – Weekly recipes with integrated shopping

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Re: Launch HN: Kitchenful (YC S21) – Weekly recipes with integrated shopping

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Post by cschiller »

Inversechi wrote: post #17
cschiller wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Great question! So far we’ve experimented with the quick commerce players mostly to cover for out of stock items from the bigger grocers. E.g. if the grocer was out of tomatoes at the point of delivery, we offer our users the option to have the out of stock item delivered by a quick commerce service around the same time of the main delivery. The majority of our current users seem to prefer one big grocery delivery pe…

That's an amazing way to leverage in those awkward situations when the traditional grocery shops fail to deliver (which happens a lot from experience). Will be def signing up to this service at some point. p.s. I reported a bug to the email listed on your home page.

Thank you! Looking forward to serving you in the near future.

Re: Launch HN: Kitchenful (YC S21) – Weekly recipes with integrated shopping

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Post by cschiller »

spieden wrote: post #14

Just a quick nit: Safeway is improperly pluralized as "Safeways" some way down the home page. Cool idea and interested to try!

Good spot! Will amend that asap. Thanks for the kind words though! Look forward to serving you.

Re: Launch HN: Kitchenful (YC S21) – Weekly recipes with integrated shopping

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Post by coffeedoughnuts »

There's no indication anywhere that this works for UK customers - other than some logos part way down the page for Ocado, Waitrose and Sainsbury's (all UK only AFAIK) and there's no context to the logos...

Does this work in the UK?

Re: Launch HN: Kitchenful (YC S21) – Weekly recipes with integrated shopping

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Post by candiddevmike »

Holy cow, $10/mo for what amounts to Allrecipes? Our product, Homechart, does a whole lot more besides just recipe management and can be self hosted for free: https://homechart.app

For recipes, Homechart can import recipes from the web and gives you an "I'm feeling lucky" button that randomizes recipes for a meal plan based on parameters like when it was last made or specific tags. For our users, this seems to work well and let's them curate their recipe collection.

Re: Launch HN: Kitchenful (YC S21) – Weekly recipes with integrated shopping

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Post by Inversechi »

candiddevmike wrote: post #24

Holy cow, $10/mo for what amounts to Allrecipes? Our product, Homechart, does a whole lot more besides just recipe management and can be self hosted for free: https://homechart.app For recipes, Homechart can import recipes from the web and gives you an "I'm feeling lucky" button that randomizes recipes for a meal plan based on parameters like when it was last made or specific tags. For our users, this seems to work w…

Not the OP but from my understanding their VP is they take care of the integration with all the grocery services to order the food required for the recipes.

Sounds like they also do nice additions such as using the influx of quick grocery services to order the missing bits from the traditional grocery delivery platforms.

Re: Launch HN: Kitchenful (YC S21) – Weekly recipes with integrated shopping

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Post by cschiller »

coffeedoughnuts wrote: post #23

There's no indication anywhere that this works for UK customers - other than some logos part way down the page for Ocado, Waitrose and Sainsbury's (all UK only AFAIK) and there's no context to the logos... Does this work in the UK?

Sorry for the confusion with the UK logos. Unfortunately we’re not operating in the UK yet but are definitely looking into it.

Re: Launch HN: Kitchenful (YC S21) – Weekly recipes with integrated shopping

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Post by iandanforth »

How do you compare to platejoy? I find their idea good but the workflow frustrating.

I pay for plantoeat but their grocer integration is pretty poor.

Edit: Also I should note that "free" trials that automatically start charging are becoming illegal in Europe for good reason. It's a dark pattern we've just gotten used to. You should avoid that model. One reason I've stayed with plantoeat is that they don't auto-renew. I consciously choose every year to renew my subscription.

Re: Launch HN: Kitchenful (YC S21) – Weekly recipes with integrated shopping

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Post by selimthegrim »

ichydkrsrnae wrote: post #19

I've thought about this myself, but it's an idea before its time that will fight a desperate fight against one big problem: quality. Quantity is easy. Quality is hard. People who cook for themselves want to choose the ingredients that go into what they're cooking. That's often the reason people cook for themselves: I decide what goes in my body. I really, really want to know if the green bell pepper has three lobes o…

Are four lobed ones really sweeter?

Re: Launch HN: Kitchenful (YC S21) – Weekly recipes with integrated shopping

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Post by dang »

candiddevmike wrote: post #24

Holy cow, $10/mo for what amounts to Allrecipes? Our product, Homechart, does a whole lot more besides just recipe management and can be self hosted for free: https://homechart.app For recipes, Homechart can import recipes from the web and gives you an "I'm feeling lucky" button that randomizes recipes for a meal plan based on parameters like when it was last made or specific tags. For our users, this seems to work w…

Hey, it's already a bit delicate to post about your company in someone else's launch thread, but I'd say it's over the line to do it in a putdown sort of way, so please don't. It's not in the spirit we're trying for here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

(Just to be clear, although the OP is about a YC startup, for sure the same applies in anybody's launch thread.)

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