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Show HN: EatHow – Figure out what to make with the food you already have

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Re: Show HN: EatHow – Figure out what to make with the food you already have

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Post by gregpilling »

abraham_o wrote: post #27
Tehnix wrote: post #24

Very cool project! I often hear people talk about this as an idea, but never really getting further than that :) Some suggestions/notes: - Looking at a recipe (e.g. https://www.eathow.com/recipes/219 ) I think you forgot to use a cursor: pointer; on the "Directions" and "Ingredients", to indicate that they are clickable - Someone else mentioned, but you don't have to be so apologetic about wanting money for this :) M…

Thank you :) I'll definitely be rethinking pricing and trials after this.

"90 days before we ask for a credit card, then less than $40 per year after that. Try us for 3 months let us show you how to save time, money and hassle for less than the cost of a family meal per year"

Just a thought to throw out there.

Re: Show HN: EatHow – Figure out what to make with the food you already have

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Post by lacampbell »

OJFord wrote: post #30
lacampbell wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Minor grammar nitpick: "Less grocery store trips" should be "Fewer grocery store trips." At this point I'd consider the former correct. It's just too commonly used in too many contexts. When more natives speakers than not don't know about a rule, I dunno if it's valid anymore.

Except the ignorant just accept both, whereas those who appreciate the distinction will be jarred.

I think the battle is lost here already. I'm an educated native English speaker and I could literally care less if someone says "less" when, traditionally, "fewer" would have been used.

It still annoys me that people describe things as "lite" instead of "light", but I realise the battle is lost as well.

Re: Show HN: EatHow – Figure out what to make with the food you already have

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Post by robjan »

lacampbell wrote: post #44
OJFord wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Except the ignorant just accept both, whereas those who appreciate the distinction will be jarred.

I think the battle is lost here already. I'm an educated native English speaker and I could literally care less if someone says "less" when, traditionally, "fewer" would have been used. It still annoys me that people describe things as "lite" instead of "light", but I realise the battle is lost as well.

You could care less. So that means you do care when someone makes the mistake?

Re: Show HN: EatHow – Figure out what to make with the food you already have

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Post by tmnvix »

lacampbell wrote: post #44
OJFord wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Except the ignorant just accept both, whereas those who appreciate the distinction will be jarred.

I think the battle is lost here already. I'm an educated native English speaker and I could literally care less if someone says "less" when, traditionally, "fewer" would have been used. It still annoys me that people describe things as "lite" instead of "light", but I realise the battle is lost as well.

I'm guessing you are from the US.

I am from Australasia and the fewer/less distinction is largely respected in my experience. I find the example jarring.

Regarding light/lite, I am doubtful that this is a problem outside of the US.

Don't give in so easily!

Re: Show HN: EatHow – Figure out what to make with the food you already have

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Post by overint »

mmahemoff wrote: post #43
overint wrote: post #33

There is a fairly large australian food delivery startup with the same name. Just might make it hard to rank your site, have you considered this?

EatNow != EatHow

Oops, my bad. I feel dumb now, apologies.

Re: Show HN: EatHow – Figure out what to make with the food you already have

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Post by scotch_drinker »

virgil_disgr4ce wrote: post #37
scotch_drinker wrote: post #35

This looks really awesome but google does this for me. It will be interesting to see how EatHow differentiates themselves from google results.

Google keeps track of your current on-hand ingredients and then constrains recipes by that inventory? Can you direct me to this functionality? I'd love to use it.

No but if I type "beets yellow squash" it gives me a bunch of recipes. It's far easier to do that than keep a running inventory of ingredients in my fridge updated in an app.

I can see that this might be useful for people who really don't know anything about cooking but would like to start somewhere.

Now if this app has a receipt OCR scanner that automatically adds ingredients and amounts to the inventory, I could see paying for it. I started a project like that in the past but gave up with the OCR technology wasn't very accurate.

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