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Re: Show HN: Github for recipes

#33

Post by Turing_Machine »

Very nice! I'd like to have the option (but not the requirement) to log in with oauth(2) from Facebook, Google, Twitter, etc.

Your site will get a lot more traction if you implement that, I think. Most people (even non-techie folks) are suffering from account proliferation.

Re: Show HN: Github for recipes

#34

Post by dpick »

Turing_Machine wrote: post #33

Very nice! I'd like to have the option (but not the requirement) to log in with oauth(2) from Facebook, Google, Twitter, etc. Your site will get a lot more traction if you implement that, I think. Most people (even non-techie folks) are suffering from account proliferation.

Will do, thanks for the suggestion.

Re: Show HN: Github for recipes

#36

Post by Turing_Machine »

dpick wrote: post #34
Turing_Machine wrote: post #33

Very nice! I'd like to have the option (but not the requirement) to log in with oauth(2) from Facebook, Google, Twitter, etc. Your site will get a lot more traction if you implement that, I think. Most people (even non-techie folks) are suffering from account proliferation.

Will do, thanks for the suggestion.

It's also a good idea to make it request only the minimum amount of information from the auth provider (e.g., name and email address). I (and I think others) have become wary of sites that ask for full access when there's no obvious reason for it.

Re: Show HN: Github for recipes

#38

Post by dpick »

calinet6 wrote: post #37
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!

You got it from badstartupideas, didn't you? :)

Haha actually I didn't, I started working on this a couple of weeks ago in my free time.

Re: Show HN: Github for recipes

#39

Post by Tyrant505 »

dpick wrote: post #11
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 :(.

Send me an email. Working on something similar and am a designer :)

Re: Show HN: Github for recipes

#40

Post by nerdfiles »

siddhant wrote: post #16
trhaynes wrote: post #7

Why not build this right on top of GitHub?

Because most cooks are not developers and don't have Github accounts, I guess.

I'm not so sure about this.

Why not use github Pages and scrape the github repository for necessary data? It's all harmless recipe stuff anyway. Non-github users could be asked to use e-mail to place recipes, and can be informed that they can use markdown. Or even present a web form that sends an encrypted e-mail for them, employing that wicked JS textarea enhancer we saw the other day, for markdown syntax or even allow haml.

    Re: {url_block}/new

    Recipe Name: {name}
    Date: {extracted_from_email}
    Subject: 
    
    {haml_recipe_body}
The github haml pages can have links station'd at the top or bottom to pre-fetch categories, previous, and next pages. The github Page Index can include a JS that builds the UI of the site via DOM manipulation, based on a lightweight Web app hosted elsewhere and called in via ajax.

Summary: Total MVR (minimum viable repository).

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