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This is really cool, thanks for sharing it! I've been looking for tools that do things like this, however most things I've found end up being thrown together cr
by fuhrysteve 11y ago
This is really cool, thanks for sharing it! I've been looking for tools that do things like this, however most things I've found end up being thrown together crap whose only goal is to serve as click-bait.
My suggestion is to spend some time thinking about the pitch - because right now it seems really complicated for how simple it is to use the tool. For instance, to me as a user, it isn't immediately clear to me what this tool is - are we pairing ingredients for a single recipe? Is it meal planning - multiple dishes that go together?
Allow me to brainstorm some ideas. Take them or leave them as you may!
make "Pick an ingredient to Start" smaller and somewhere where it's viewed more as an instruction than a title (maybe right above the table in bold & medium gray (#696969 or so)
Make the title explicitly state the problem / solution (rather than instructions)... something like "Find the Best Recipe by Ingredient" - I'm sure you can wordsmith it better.
Try to express it simply and clearly enough that you feel comfortable deleting the two paragraphs at the top starting with "Go ahead and search [...]"
As it happens, I find the hacker news post more informative than the site itself about what this tool does. I would replace "food" with "ingredient" in the title of this post, though, since "food" is too vague and gets back to the whole "is this for meal planning?" question.
- qrv3w 11y agoThanks! You're right, I should refine the idea a little more. Initially the idea was based around a question: "what are the best pairs of ingredients?" since I couldn't find many resources to answer it. Now it has evolved a bit since then to be more of a site to find recipes based on ingredients. From the comments here it seems like that might be a good route to follow. Really appreciate your brainstorming ideas!