That's fucking awesome!
Rate my iPhone app: cooking recipes as Gantt charts. Tell me what you think.
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Re: Rate my iPhone app: cooking recipes as Gantt charts. Tell me what you think.
#62Awesome, I've been wanting someone to make this for years, and I even drew up some specs to make this myself. It's in principle quite similar to http://www.cookingforengineers.com/ . But the make or break deal on this is going to be the online recipe collection / organizing application, so that you can plan meals on the website, upload the shopping list to a shopping app (or make it so that another app can download i…
Yeah, you can't add more recipes as a user. At the current state it's just a minimum viable product, but I guess we will be developing the app furiously further. Android version will be coming, but one of the difficulties is that I won't be able to sell android applications from Finland.
Screw making an Android version, until Google fix it for you. I am in the same problem in Australia, have the SDK and a Nexus One to test, but I am refusing on working on this until we hear from Google. They have not talked about this problem for a long time.
Google, you only have yourself to blame.
Re: Rate my iPhone app: cooking recipes as Gantt charts. Tell me what you think.
#63Is that your actual site for this app because it's one big giant image and it's really painful to download for the first time even on my fast cable connection. It's 795 KB... That's way too big for a single page website. You might want to double check you at least compressed the image properly. Ditch the png and use a jpeg if you have to. I got it down to 188KB on my first try compressing it to a jpeg. I like the ide…
I think you should split it up into multiple images and text. For one thing it will be more accessible and search-engine friendly, and also... that jpg is horribly compressed :(
Re: Rate my iPhone app: cooking recipes as Gantt charts. Tell me what you think.
#64Is that your actual site for this app because it's one big giant image and it's really painful to download for the first time even on my fast cable connection. It's 795 KB... That's way too big for a single page website. You might want to double check you at least compressed the image properly. Ditch the png and use a jpeg if you have to. I got it down to 188KB on my first try compressing it to a jpeg. I like the ide…
Thank you for noticing that, I changed the image to 140kb jpg. I recommend feta cheese soup, if you want something with beef with in it then bratwurst pasta :)
Oh gosh, I came here to say please, please, please never use a jpeg for anything with solid colors and contrasting text. The artifacts are killing my happiness. This would also not be that hard to pull off in HTML, and you can use Google Fonts to do the big-courier style.
Re: Rate my iPhone app: cooking recipes as Gantt charts. Tell me what you think.
#65Love your graphic style. Very cute, reminds me of Saturday morning cartoons. Warm, fuzzy feeling. However, the icon is a little too cluttered and does not represent your app well in a first-impression sense. How are you representing the critical path? Some minor issues. 1) Since the Food Gantt chart is displayed landscape, not intuitive that you have to swipe left to go back to the main recipe list. 2) If you are scr…
> However, the icon is a little too cluttered
> and does not represent your app well in a
> first-impression sense.
fully agree. And where it says "Visual Cookbook" to the left of the icon the 'Visual' is quite hard to read.. looks a bit like "Vosuat".
Re: Rate my iPhone app: cooking recipes as Gantt charts. Tell me what you think.
#66Kevin Gould's book Dishy did something similiar to this with flow chart types diagrams for the recipes.
My personal problem with recipe apps generally for the iPhone/iPad is that it's hard to use them when your hands are messy from cooking. Even if you don't have to scroll the screen, then you have to turn off the automatic standby and then I inevitably forget to turn it on again and find myself with zero battery unexpectedly.
Re: Rate my iPhone app: cooking recipes as Gantt charts. Tell me what you think.
#67I did not try the app yet, it def looks promising.
Maybe reconsider the background color for your landing page though, that green/brown may not be the most appetizing color out there.
Re: Rate my iPhone app: cooking recipes as Gantt charts. Tell me what you think.
#68Awesome, I've been wanting someone to make this for years, and I even drew up some specs to make this myself. It's in principle quite similar to http://www.cookingforengineers.com/ . But the make or break deal on this is going to be the online recipe collection / organizing application, so that you can plan meals on the website, upload the shopping list to a shopping app (or make it so that another app can download i…
Yeah, you can't add more recipes as a user. At the current state it's just a minimum viable product, but I guess we will be developing the app furiously further. Android version will be coming, but one of the difficulties is that I won't be able to sell android applications from Finland.
I have really wondered about this objection. Why not just sell it on your website, the way that has worked for computer programs and services forever? You're in full control, can choose any way of charging that you want and so on. Is it less likely that people will find your app? Less likely that they have already registered their credit cards with paypal or amazon than with the appstore? Worse user experience? Anything else?