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Re: Show HN: Fruits and vegetables in season in your zip code

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swalsh wrote: post #41

Very cool. Not sure if your motivation is to "promote local eating" or if you're trying to build a cool product that would bring in some cash... but if you're looking to monetize, I'd pay a small amount (about the cost of a magazine) for a HIGH-QUALITY set of recipe suggestions that use 6 ingredients or less, and take ~1hr to cook. (because I cook for a family every day, I don't have all day to cook, and I don't want…

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Re: Show HN: Fruits and vegetables in season in your zip code

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Post by himom »

platz wrote: post #68
swalsh wrote: post #41

Very cool. Not sure if your motivation is to "promote local eating" or if you're trying to build a cool product that would bring in some cash... but if you're looking to monetize, I'd pay a small amount (about the cost of a magazine) for a HIGH-QUALITY set of recipe suggestions that use 6 ingredients or less, and take ~1hr to cook. (because I cook for a family every day, I don't have all day to cook, and I don't want…

Your request is different from the core value prop of OP's sites focus

Exactly. It doesn’t make sense to build a recipes app when many already exist. All they need to do is link to allrecipes search by included ingredient, and preferably sorted by average rating. Feature added with much less effort.

Re: Show HN: Fruits and vegetables in season in your zip code

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komali2 wrote: post #71

>Artichoke >Days left in season: 253 Artichokes, man. You just can't convince them to die.

I also noticed that. I tend to buy the heirloom perennial artichokes which have a shorter season than the continuously planted annual varieties. Also, saw asparagus which even near the bay area I don't think is in season, most of it seems to be from Mexico.

Re: Show HN: Fruits and vegetables in season in your zip code

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Post by swalsh »

platz wrote: post #68
swalsh wrote: post #41

Very cool. Not sure if your motivation is to "promote local eating" or if you're trying to build a cool product that would bring in some cash... but if you're looking to monetize, I'd pay a small amount (about the cost of a magazine) for a HIGH-QUALITY set of recipe suggestions that use 6 ingredients or less, and take ~1hr to cook. (because I cook for a family every day, I don't have all day to cook, and I don't want…

Your request is different from the core value prop of OP's sites focus

It's a mailing list, not a unix app. I'm not going to be piping the output from this into something else. To me the core "value prop" of this is "inspiration" for things to make. Adding specifics to that seems like a natural extension.

Re: Show HN: Fruits and vegetables in season in your zip code

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Post by gabemart »

mikeash wrote: post #66
gabemart wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ah yeah, the zip database I'm using is a bit out of date (as some other people have mentioned) and you're seeing this behaviour as it thinks 22003 is in Georgia. I had a hunch people might be more interested in results from their own state even if they were a bit further away, but clearly in this case that doesn't make sense. I'll experiment with moving the email form to under the results, or putting it behind a butt…

Interesting, I take it the distances are being computed in some other way? The "results from State" would definitely make a lot more sense if they matched the zip code.

Distances are being computed from a geopoint representation of each zip code (which is a bit out of date, but which I can update fairly easily) to a set of shape files representing US counties. It's intentionally not 100% accurate because the underlying math is quite slow and using slight approximations speeds things way up.

Re: Show HN: Fruits and vegetables in season in your zip code

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Post by gabemart »

s0rce wrote: post #74
komali2 wrote: post #71

>Artichoke >Days left in season: 253 Artichokes, man. You just can't convince them to die.

I also noticed that. I tend to buy the heirloom perennial artichokes which have a shorter season than the continuously planted annual varieties. Also, saw asparagus which even near the bay area I don't think is in season, most of it seems to be from Mexico.

I ran some queries and it looks like there are only about 4 weeks a year when asparagus isn't being commercially harvested somewhere in California - the first couple of weeks in December and the last couple of weeks in May (approximately)

Distribution is another matter entirely of course!

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