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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 soperj »

selimthegrim wrote: post #29
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?

I tried a blind taste test, and the answer from my perspective was no.

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

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Post by ichydkrsrnae »

selimthegrim wrote: post #29
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?

I only use the green ones. The three lobed ones are strong up, the four lobed ones are milder. No theory on the sweetness, but then I don't use the red, orange, or yellow ones very often. Maybe like garlic? Young garlic super strong, mature less so?

The male versus female bell pepper nonsense is just that, nonsense. My mother thinks it's all nonsense, but she's wrong.

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

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Post by cschiller »

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…

True, the picking quality is a big factor for the experience. Especially when it’s about shopping for ingredients for a meal. We try to improve this by placing the order on behalf of the customer, so we can optimize the product selection for the cooking experience and have the option to guide the pickers with comments/chat towards the most appropriate products or suitable substitutes if something is out of stock.

Besides that we are considering to give the user an option to simply export the optimized shopping list, so it can be used for offline shopping. We got this a few times as a feature request from users who like to shop the ingredients themselves, but still like a service which provides them with personalized suggestions each week and generates a combined shopping list.

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

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Post by cschiller »

PaulSec wrote: post #16

What's the difference with Jow?

Main difference is the strong focus on your preferences, diets, and goals. We use a combination of our own produced recipes, as well as recipes from food creators we work with. This allows us to tap into a wide range of different meals from the start and tailor the weekly recommendations to each individual.

On top of the personalization, we also have a different order process in which we take care of finding the best substitutes in case something is out of stock, and then provide you with personalized cooking instructions after the order.

Feel free to give it a try and let me know how it works for you.

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

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Post by cschiller »

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…

Looks like a great software product for household management!

What we learned is that when it comes to dinners, many decision makers in the household struggle with making the decision every week about what to eat for the next few days. The randomized recipe button seems to go into that direction. However making relevant suggestions is what we learned so far to be a key in the experience (e.g. considering the current season, what was for dinner in the past week, what is similar to a favorite dish but with a new twist, etc.)

From our existing users we get the feedback that a personalized menu each week and a much more convenient way to order their groceries saves them time and mental energy. For many worth the price. Feel free to give it a try and let me know how it works.

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

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Post by chris_st »

malfist wrote: post #9
chris_st wrote: post #8

Good luck -- looks nice! I had the "What do I make for dinner?" conundrum too, and wound up making my own web app to address that. The main thing for me was that I couldn't think of any recipes, other than ones I'd already made very recently. So mine is kind of a diary, in that I record whatever we make today, and then I can see what we've made over the last couple of years, and get inspiration that way. It also has…

Is your webapp sharable? That sounds handy

Sorry, no, not at the moment. It wasn't a big deal to write.

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

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Post by chris_st »

cschiller wrote: post #10
chris_st wrote: post #8

Good luck -- looks nice! I had the "What do I make for dinner?" conundrum too, and wound up making my own web app to address that. The main thing for me was that I couldn't think of any recipes, other than ones I'd already made very recently. So mine is kind of a diary, in that I record whatever we make today, and then I can see what we've made over the last couple of years, and get inspiration that way. It also has…

This sounds like a great hack! Personally we faced a kind of cold start problem with such a diary. So what we’re trying now with Kitchenful is to recommend new recipes that are similar to a few favorite dishes of our users, which we ask about in the onboarding process. We like the idea of a “Future” list and are already thinking about a bookmarking / recipe import feature. How do you save future ideas in your app? (u…

It's a database-backed app, so it's just a marker in the database.

I understand the cold-start thing about the "diary" feature, but I think it'd be nice to have a list you could look back on of everything you've made, with notes on how you liked it, what you'd change, etc. That's been a big win for me.

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

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Post by tethys »

cschiller wrote: post #6
aleksi wrote: post #3

> We have now started serving US customers. It is not clear from the website. I expected to see a list of countries somewhere, maybe even after clicking a Try Free button. But it seems to be happy to accept a credit card from any country.

Thanks for the idea! We used https://ipapi.com/ at the start to render different page content based on the country of the visitor. But like the idea of making this clearer on the homepage in general, because an ip address lookup might not be accurate and hard if there is no way for the user to influence / change the language/location.

For me, some paragraphs are in German, some are in English. Really weird.
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