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Show HN: Cinc – GitHub for recipes

363 points by keithasaurus 9y ago

keithasaurus 9y ago
If anyone wants to know the stack it's Django/Postgres on the backend, and an Elm SPA frontend. All data goes through an undocumented REST API.
- brntn 9y ago
  Nice work! Are you using mptt or treebeard under the hood to manage the forking?
  - keithasaurus 9y ago
    Nope. It's a pretty simple relation to express without external libraries, so I figured I'd keep the granular control and just do foreign keys. Easier to refactor schema or migrate data that way.
- dpapathanasiou 9y ago
  Nice project! If you need more data, check out this: https://github.com/dpapathanasiou/recipebook https://github.com/dpapathanasiou/recipebook I've also enabled it to talk to this via TOTP, if you ever decide to switch to/want to enable mongo as your recipe doc store: https://github.com/dpapathanasiou/ARMS https://github.com/dpapathanasiou/ARMS Good luck with it, and keep us posted!
  - keithasaurus 9y ago
    Thanks, but we have our own importer. BTW, I'd suggest writing a metadata fallback in your library. You'd be surprised how many sites will work just on parsing json linked data or schema.org's Recipe format. Good luck!
NickBusey 9y ago
This looks promising and fairly well done, but it's lacking a few critical features IMO. The first obvious one is a way to Diff a recipe and it's Forks (unless I missed that). The harder and maybe more important one, is an issue that GitHub itself still hasn't figured out how to solve either. There should be a process for a fork of a recipe being able to explain why it is better than the original, and have the fork be able to be voted on so that the 'best' fork as voted by the most users becomes the canonical 'Chicken Noodle Soup' recipe, or at least display the forks on main recipe ranked by popularity.
- keithasaurus 9y ago
  Yeah, it's on the list of things to do. Once there are enough recipes/users it will also be useful to see the history/ancestry of recipe. There are already a few that are forks of forks. All the recipe data is immutable and versioned, so that will happen at some point.
  - jitl 9y ago
    A++ would love to see the diff feature :)
- ghayes 9y ago
  My first thought was to remove "Vegan Butter" from the chicken recipe (or move it into a "Dietary Substitutions"), but then I realized my forked recipe would probably just be lost in the void. Maybe the goal of forks should be more akin to pull requests?
  - colordrops 9y ago
    Seems that "Dietary Substitutions" could be a first-class data type. It would be a named multi-map of one item to another one. So you could create you own "Dietary Substitution Map" named "Nut allergies" or "Halal" or "Vegan", with butter -> canola oil, milk -> soy milk, milk -> almond milk, etc. Then you could pick the particular substitution map that you care about and avoid forking recipes unnecessarily and have most recipes support most diet types if the proper map exists.
gyrocode 9y ago
Interesting idea... Phrase "fork a recipe" just got a new meaning.
- mch82 9y ago
  Might be worth user testing some different ways of saying "fork" in case the people who cook aren't the same as people who code. One to try might be "Remix" and "Remixes"?
  - pbhjpbhj 9y ago
    "Adapt", "modify", "tweak", "personalise", ...? Is forking really good for recipes, do you want to automate inclusion of upstream changes, surely not?
joombaga 9y ago
How are you doing volume to weight conversions? Do you have a big table of weights-by-volume for different ingredients?
- keithasaurus 9y ago
  Yeah, densities and fuzzy matching. It'll get more intelligent eventually, but does a pretty good job on common ingredients at the moment.
  - mcjiggerlog 9y ago
    It'd be good if you could customise what kinds of foods should be displayed in what measurements. E.g. I'm seeing 1 cup of steamed rice - being British I have no idea what that means. I turn metric on and it tells me 237 milliliters of rice, whereas I would be expecting grams. I'm pretty sure measuring solids by volume is a US-only thing.
AAAton 9y ago
neat idea! A weird piece of feedback: Something about the UI gives me a substantial feeling of loneliness.
- zdrummond 9y ago
  Odd, but I felt the same... it looks nice, its clean, and easy to read... but I didn't get the same excitement to cook as I do with say Serious Eats (example: http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2017/05/new-orleans-style-red-beans-rice-recipe.html http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2017/05/new-orleans-style...)
- keithasaurus 9y ago
  This cracks me up. At the same time, it sounds like it's something that should be taken seriously. Thanks for the feedback.
- dhruvkar 9y ago
  I can see that. But I prefer the pinboard-esque design to a flashier one. It's utilitarian and snappy - just the way my grandma made 'em.
- jasonjayr 9y ago
  I don't think it's loneliness -- I think it's a stark contrast to most of the other major recipe collection sites out there that are visually cluttered. I think that's a refreshing change for this type of site; You may want to consider a means of allowing users to curate and discuss recipes on sub-domains, some kind of API or some other means of splitting it up? A kind of crisp, clean social platform for food prep ....
  - keithasaurus 9y ago
    Yeah, there's a whole concept of how it may work for collaboration that has yet to be implemented. Thanks for the feedback.
  - AAAton 9y ago
    I don't seek more flashiness or colors. I actually appreciate the simplicity. Thoughts on what the feeling could be rooted in: I Think it would help with more than 3 recipes on the front page. That gives a feeling of emptiness that can be confused with loneliness. I also think there could be a better choice of image cropping. One that does the trick of making them all one size, but that also lets me see the food and thus inspires me.
zdrummond 9y ago
Nice! It is clear you put a lot of care into this, and I am sure there is a bucket full of features you want to get to, but I have a big request. What I really want is one step beyond a place to store recipes. I want a meal planning site! I want to create a pool of recipes that we like, and plug in how often this week we will eat at home. Then outcomes a grocery list and a plan for each day. Maybe it even sees what we have liked, and suggested new recipes to add to the pool. I am this close to pulling the trigger on PlateJoy, but my biggest hurdle is I can't add recipes I _know_ we like to their list of experimental (to us) meals. Really, I don't mind/enjoy cooking, but never seem to carve the time out to plan an entire family of four's meals a week in advance.
- keithasaurus 9y ago
  already in the works :)
  - zdrummond 9y ago
    Great! Do you plan on open-sourcing? Anyway for me to help, even if it's feedback?
    - keithasaurus 9y ago
      Always happy to have feedback! The initial version will be rolled out in the coming weeks. Since it's a major product addition, there'll be some sort of announcement. So either sign up and you'll get a wonderful mass email notification soon. Or circle back in a few weeks. Some aspects of the site are open sourced: https://gitlab.com/keithasaurus/simple_html https://gitlab.com/keithasaurus/simple_html -- basically a port of Elm Html to Python to address what I perceive to be flaws of template rendering. https://bitbucket.org/cinckitchen/kunits https://bitbucket.org/cinckitchen/kunits -- just a unit library I wrote. It's central to the site's scaling, etc. That's a practice that will continue. But the full source will likely not be made public.
- rojobuffalo 9y ago
  Hey I'm also working on this (separate from OP). In the meantime you might check out https://www.eatthismuch.com/ https://www.eatthismuch.com/.
k__ 9y ago
Seeing metric units written out feels kinda odd. Otherwise very nice idea :)
dgfgfdagasdfgfa 9y ago
Looks good! The mix of Sans-Serif and Serif is a little weird.
whatnotests 9y ago
AMAZING idea. Please allow me to G+ connect or facebook connect, b/c I don't want to have yet another password to remember, and I'd like to (maybe?) share some activity on Cinc with my FB peeps. Just a thought.
- keithasaurus 9y ago
  At some point ... :)
LostCharacter 9y ago
Nice site! I look forward to using it in the future. One thing - when using lastpass to generate a password, it fails to fill the first password and only fills the "repeat" portion. Likewise, it fails to fill the username field for login.
- keithasaurus 9y ago
  Yeah, I have this problem with Mac's keychain on Safari as well. I haven't had the time to fix yet, but it's helpful to hear the same from someone else. Thanks.
zitterbewegung 9y ago
I'm working on a project and having a API for recipes would be great. I see there is a mention on your ToS but I don't see where you could access it?
- keithasaurus 9y ago
  It's undocumented, but feel free to check out the calls in your browser's debugger. There's no guarantee of API stability or token permanence at this point. So integrations are not advised yet.
julee04 9y ago
this is a crazy fast site! can you share what you are using to host and serve it?
- keithasaurus 9y ago
  AWS/nginx on a fairly minimal instance. speed probably comes from: - it's an SPA, so it's mostly just doing API calls. - the database is designed to be fast at a few orders of magnitude of size beyond its current state - everything is gzipped
  - sandinmyjoints 9y ago
    And no ads, unlike pretty much every other free site with recipes!
52-6F-62 9y ago
This is a great idea! My one criticism right off the bat is the name -- the pronunciation isn't immediately obvious. ("Sink?", "Kink?", "Kins?", "Since?") Then again, I don't know if that's just me...
- tedmiston 9y ago
  I read it as "sink" like the ci in circle.
- keithasaurus 9y ago
  It's meant to be a pun for "kitchen sink," and also to work with the notion of "sync"-ing. It's pronounced like "sink." Cinc is the number 5 in Catalan and refers to the amount of senses we use when cooking.
  - 52-6F-62 9y ago
    I retract my criticism then! Also, it seems I should have read the About page. Might I suggest adding it to the top navigation? I think some further explanation/self promotion (especially as you've written it) is warranted. edit: Also should have known. "Cinq" is five in French as well.
- deleted 9y ago
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damerms 9y ago
It's like http://www.forkingrecipes.com/landing http://www.forkingrecipes.com/landing
- keithasaurus 9y ago
  Cool. Hadn't seen this before. Is it your site?
overcast 9y ago
Looks like a more complex version of what I had created with imadefood over a year ago. Similar features, with the branching, etc. I've been working on an iteration into a slightly different direction. As it didn't pick up any steam. Good luck :) As others have stated below, forkthecookbook, forkingrecipes, and also recipelabs. All do basically the same thing. I just don't think there is enough market for it. Certainly was a fun little project though! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10853665 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10853665
- keithasaurus 9y ago
  Looks like a 502 error on the site. Is it still up? I'd be interested to see your approach if possible.
  - overcast 9y ago
    Took it down to concentrate on other work, though I'd be open to discussion. hello@imadefood.com
amadeusw 9y ago
Looks great! I'm inclined to host my recipes there. But before I do that, what is the future for this site? * Do you monetize by getting a cut from the shopping cart? * Will I be able to easily download my data in the future, like I do with git repositories?
- keithasaurus 9y ago
  I built it primarily for myself. It's able to run on cheap hardware and is very lightweight, so I plan to keep it up indefinitely at minimal cost. I haven't begun looking into funding/monetization, but that may happen soon. All data is already available via the API, so at some point, there will be a "Download my data" feature.
  - amadeusw 9y ago
    Awesome, I'm in.
DerfNet 9y ago
this is a great idea. How many times have you looked at reviews on recipes.com or whatever and the first 10 include a half dozen substitutions, basically making a different end product entirely? each of those reviews could instead be a fork. awesome!
- keithasaurus 9y ago
  That's the idea. Still needs some work :)
Jaepa 9y ago
The idea for this has been around for a for a while. http://forkthecookbook.com/ http://forkthecookbook.com/ goes back to 2012. And its an interesting idea. Recipes can't be copyrighted and and recipes are generally derivative. The data is generally well structured, and fairly standardized (ingredients, equipment, instructions, photo, with optional fields for prep & cook time, servings, notes, difficulty, etc). But there are two primary issues: 1. Recipes don't really have a single inheritance. For example, I cook a lot & really enjoying cooking, but when I'm trying to make something new, I won't follow a recipe. I will read a bunch recipes, and try to understand the underlying ideas & steal the ones I think are interesting, then implement my own. So say I look up Tufo Matar find 3 recipes the make my own, if I want to contribute which recipe do I fork? 2. This may have been dealt with by the use of stars. when I was using forkthecookbook, there was no way of "bookmarking" recipes and the so users forked them, which lead to the results having huge number of identical forks. That being said it seems like the star system may resolve that. But currently it looks as though unmodified copies of the recipes still appear in the Forks list, which makes it harder to find benifical changes. Also it would be nice to have a history section with a message summarizing what changed. All that said this does look nice. Additionally, a nice feature to have would be to "import" a recipe, though since phrasing of a recipe is protected this gets a little bit legally complicated.
- keithasaurus 9y ago
  Thanks for the great feedback. Yeah, the version history, etc will have a UI at some point. You're also right that needs to be some sort of indication for the diff between forks. We'll get there. People haven't been going crazy with forks yet (turns out if you post to hacker news, that changes :), so that will be worked on. There is an importer already! It's not perfect, but it works with most recipe sites. Thanks for pointing out forkthecookbook.com. I hadn't seen that, and it's definitely relevant.
  - Jaepa 9y ago
    Oh cool I missed that. It looks like a fun project. I will definitely join and try to contribute some. Is there a better means of reporting bugs than the the contact us email form?
bruce_one 9y ago
I'm a huge fan of the fact this does weight conversions (cooking by weight is now my favourite, and I've been looking for a site that is just weights, so this looks like a win to me :-) ). One note I'd make, though, is that US, UK and Australian cups are all different sizes. (and possibly others?) And from the one recipe I saw it looks like you're using UK cups? But, possibly not as well... Either way, it might be worth calling that out, or allowing for cup-type specification similar to how you do for weights? Somewhat related, some sites call out egg weights too, and that might be something to try and do here too? (Because, if nothing else, egg weights are often written on the carton which acts as a guide; even if people don't actually weigh them.) Another thought, again... Some kind of showcasing? A la Github's explore, or even "awesome" pages? I might be off, but to me discovery is really important for recipes and I love browsing "cookies" or "desserts in a hurry" or similar; and pages akin to that with community curation could be nice? Hmm, another random idea... Some kind of more granular forking to facilitate things like "do you have a stand mixer?" and that kind of distinction? (Coupled with "equipment switches" maybe?) In the past I've done recipes that required something I didn't have, and I've had to tweak fairly aggressively to make it work, but when/if it did work, maybe adding that feedback into the recipe would be valuable? e.g. user ticks "don't have a dehydrator", and recipe tweaks to "use your oven and set it low", etc. Anyway... It looks awesome! Keep doing what you're doing, and I'll use it :-) Just some random thoughts that came to mind :-)
- askvictor 9y ago
  > Somewhat related, some sites call out egg weights too, and that might be something to try and do here too? Some technical recipe books I've used just specify the weight of total egg. Not that useful for a home cook though. For that matter, I'm curious what egg size descriptions is like in other countries; in Australian shops they're like condom sizes - I haven't seen 'small' or 'medium' eggs for over a decade.
  - BBlarat 9y ago
    Well it depends on what you're cooking, if you make an omelette it's not a big deal if you have too much egg, but if you make say a chocolate fondant than the size of the egg is very important to get the correct texture.
rcpt 9y ago
"guthub"
- keithasaurus 9y ago
  lol
- aracarie 9y ago
  Open Sauce
kbanman 9y ago
Very well done! I had started on a similar idea a while back, but never got around to it. Even have a cute domain for it (pifork.com) in case you're interested :)
yellowapple 9y ago
So I'm trying to submit my cheesy toast recipe as a test. Unfortunately, I can't: - "1 slice" (of bread) is not a valid quantity - "to taste" (of black pepper) is not a valid quantity Oh well. I guess I won't be using this then, at least not yet.
- keithasaurus 9y ago
  those can be handled: 1 | slice bread (blank) | black pepper, to taste Some aspects of the UI/UX still need work. Thanks for the feedback.
  - yellowapple 9y ago
    I tried both of those; still complained about an invalid quantity.
justboxing 9y ago
This looks great! Congrats on shipping!! I like that you have a scaling feature. => https://www.cinc.kitchen/info/features https://www.cinc.kitchen/info/features I know this may be too much to ask, but if you are taking requests, some basic nutritional info (ex: Protein content, avg. calories) might make it even more awesome for those of us tracking daily calories, protein (for atheletes etc). I understand things like sodium, fat might vary depending on how much salt or oil the person cooking the recipe uses, so maybe this might not be feasible to implement...
- mch82 9y ago
  Good idea... Formatted to look like a standard nutrition label would be a nice touch
markdown 9y ago
Viewing source made me sad. One would think that recipes of all things would survive the appification of the web.
thearn4 9y ago
An analog to Travis CI for this would be interesting and delicious. An analog to Docker images would be something like Blue Apron or Hellofresh I guess.
- noway421 9y ago
  >An analog to Travis CI for this would be interesting and delicious. Surprised it is not a startup yet..
tylerdurrett 9y ago
Next step: npm cook spaghetti-and-meatballs In all seriousness though, definitely looking forward to a public API. Great work!
joshumax 9y ago
I started a teensy bit of work on something sorta like this a while ago: https://github.com/joshumax/git-cooking https://github.com/joshumax/git-cooking Glad to see somebody actually brought a similar idea to fruition :)
boromi 9y ago
Does this not support issues and comments? If not those would be welcome additions.
- keithasaurus 9y ago
  There are comments (if enabled by the author). Not sure if issues will make sense? Would you be writing recipes collaboratively?
Toast_ 9y ago
Looks good. I think you should also consider adding the "keto" diet on there as well. Maybe meals < 10 net grams of carbs?
- pyedpiper 9y ago
  yes, then it will be easier to avoid diets that assume our digestive system hasn't had any evolutionary pressure since the neanderthals...
  - Toast_ 9y ago
    I'm confused, do you actually think the ketogenic diet is based on a neanderthal diet?
qrv3w 9y ago
This is cool! A couple weeks ago I was looking for a way to find similar recipes (forked recipes, in a way) and I ended up making my homebaked solution. [1] [1] https://timetomakefood.com/find https://timetomakefood.com/find
m3kw9 9y ago
I was sold on Forking, I'm sure no pun intended
jerrysievert 9y ago
might I ask that recipes be presented in h-recipe format? (http://microformats.org/wiki/h-recipe http://microformats.org/wiki/h-recipe) it's simple to do, and works really well.
- keithasaurus 9y ago
  What's the case for h-recipe over schema.org's recipe format?
taherchhabra 9y ago
Is there a way to compare how it actually tastes? , These days I am baking cakes by watching recipes on youtube, the texture always comes correct and I use exact weights as described but the taste is somewhat lacking. It would be good if we can give reference to a local cakeshop for its similarity to the recipie
- keithasaurus 9y ago
  Do you mean can you do that in comments? Or are you asking if we can automate a sense of taste? The latter would be extremely difficult. Not sure I understand :)
x0 9y ago
Is there a way to do pull requests? I'd like to go through and convert a few people's °F to °C.
- keithasaurus 9y ago
  No, but you can fork it for yourself if you want. I think most people that are writing fahrenheit want fahrenheit. However, at some point there will likely be a conversion ability for that.
  - F_r_k 9y ago
    It's a shame that units are not understood by the system. Once imputed they should be stored as K or °C and then displayed as the user wants
acalderaro 9y ago
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but should the "What's the name mean" in the about section be "What does the name mean?" or "Whats the name mean?" The first is "proper" the second is colloquial. At least that's what I thought.
- keithasaurus 9y ago
  It's not proper grammar :) Proper grammar would be "What does the name mean?" It's written this way simply because it's a question I've heard a lot, and when people say it, they usually combine "what" and "does" and say "What's the name mean?"
- jszymborski 9y ago
  The 's contraction can mean 'is', 'does' or 'has'. In this case "What's the name mean" expands to "What does the name mean". "Whats the name mean" is grammatically incorrect. :)
acalderaro 9y ago
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but should the "What's the name mean" in the about section be "What does the name mean?" or "Whats the name mean?" The first is "proper" the second is colloquial. At least that's what I thought.
jstoja 9y ago
I really like it. I often look for a receipe with many likes online and have to read dozens of comments to adjust it... For example the receipe of some cake where nearly all commenters advise to put 1/4 of the sugar advised. If you don't read the comment, chances are that even with a recipe approved by many people it tastes like shit. I really hope this will grow and success!
mch82 9y ago
Maybe a button to order the ingredients from Amazon or similar? Edit: And maybe a shopping basket in case someone wants to order ingredients from a few recipes. Edit (again): And don't forget about letting people order the equipment too.
linopolus 9y ago
Another site totally unusable without JS enabled, where it could be just used to add dynamics to otherwise nicely generated HTML..
omnimus 9y ago
Is it open-source project? Are you looking for contributions? I am passionate cook - designer - frontenddev. I struggle with recipe sites and where to save mines. If this was somehow libre and had future i might want to contribute.
enobrev 9y ago
I've been wanting to try this for a while. This looks great! Nice to see some excellent suggestions in this thread as well, that I definitely never thought of. I hope this is successful, as I'm a huge fan of the idea.
livas 9y ago
this is a pretty cool thing. just maybe they can change that design. Anyway, i like that.
TekMol 9y ago
Interesting project, well executed! Are you storing the recipes in Git repos or in the Postgres DB? If in Postgres, what is the format? Do you put each receipe in a single JSON field? If not, what does the data structure look like?
INTPenis 9y ago
But it's not really like github for recipes until you solve the url interface. I should be able to go to a user and their recipes with the same ease as on github. Having unique IDs for recipes exposed in the URL isn't really necessary.
midgetjones 9y ago
I think this is a brilliant idea, but I wonder if the terminology should be changed? I think the concept of saving a copy of a recipe, then editing it would come much more naturally to the 99% of people who have never heard of github.
fanpuns 9y ago
Nice project, I like the format of entering new recipes. I think you will get good uptake even from users who don't know what GH is :) Is this project open source or does it plan to be at some point? I've looked at some of the other projects out there that are similar, but many seem to die based on the founder running out of steam or getting busy with other stuff. I would really be interested in contributing to this or a a similar project if anyone has a suggestion for one that is open.
jdrzj 9y ago
Interesting, although when going on this site first time I thought there are only 3 recipes.
joepour 9y ago
This is really cool, congratulations on shipping! Have you thought about simplifying the UI by changing "Forks" to something like "Twists" or Takes (as in 'my twist on' or 'my take on'). We all understand what I fork is but the average user will likely get confused, and not just because a fork is a kitchen utensil!
roryisok 9y ago
I love this, signed up straight away. I've also recently discovered cookingforengineers.com and I love their card recipe system. it would be so cool if you could add something similar - I hate the traditional model of recipes, I always have to read and re-read them several times. I'm not sure how you would go about adding this though, its quite different from the structure you have already
- keithasaurus 9y ago
  Yeah, I've seen what they do. I like it in some ways. But with user-submitted input, their recipe card system at some point will be insanely wide/large/unwieldy.
bruth 9y ago
Wow! My friend and I had this idea years ago.. possibly pre-GitHub. I am glad someone finally made it! Well done. My particular interest was seeing how a recipe deviates from the original.. a recipe graph of sorts. That would a fun way to visually explore and find related recipes that are similar in ingredients.
- overcast 9y ago
  It's been done to death already. No one really seems to want this, even though it's awesome branching recipes.
amelius 9y ago
> Chicken Alfredo Pasta with Sweet Potato Noodles (480 Calories per Serving) You probably mean 480 kilo calories.
- zimpenfish 9y ago
  It's been commonly accepted that "calories" without qualification means "kilocalories" in prose / speech for many years.
- ClashTheBunny 9y ago
  Calories with a capital C are kilocalories.
- deleted 9y ago
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jordanwallwork 9y ago
I went for a pretty ambitious test recipe (Heston Blumenthal's Egg in Verjus, Verjus in Egg), unfortunately I'm not able to save it - it's complaining that one of my ingredients is an invalid weight - 3.3 grams Gellan F. If I remove it then it complains about the ingredient before it, so I'm wondering if there's an ingredient limit? It's at about the 40th listed ingredient. It took me ages to input everything so I do hope I'm able to save it! The recipe entry experience was great though, some small details that I think would improve things even further: - Esc should clear the 'text entry' modal, I kept clicking this by accident when wanting to add a new section heading and it was a nuisance having to click the 'close' link - '+ Ingredient section' should replace last ingredient row if blank - Would be nice to have section headings (similar to 'ingredient sections' for recipe methods) to break up recipes with multiple discrete sections - Hard to find errors in long recipe. Could be more prominant, or add a 'jump to next error' button?
- keithasaurus 9y ago
  Thanks for the detailed issue. Sorry for the trouble! Could you send me the recipe link? I'm unsure know why you'd be hitting the issues you mentioned. I'll try to respond to the issues you raised one-at-a-time: 1. 3.3 grams should be valid. Unsure why that would be a problem unless some weird unicode stuff??? 2. There's no ingredient limit. 3. Esc clearing: I agree :) Clicking on the black transparency layer should also clear it. I just need to build it in. Maybe tomorrow :) 4. Plus -- you're right. Hadn't thought of that 5. Headings: I've left that for users to choose to do on their own. Hard to get too strict about that stuff. (Same reason steps aren't numbered.) I'd suggest doing all caps and a line break at each section. 6. Errors: I agree. There are a number of things ahead of that on the list of priorities, but it's a good idea. Thanks for the descriptive feedback! Heston Blumenthal's recipes are always welcome on the site! Let me know if you run into any other trouble.
macygray 9y ago
I have a feature request: add diffs and ability to show who have starred and who have forked your recipe
trwhite 9y ago
Nice idea. You should get Schema Json (http://schema.org/ http://schema.org/) on this so the recipes can be crawled properly.
xyclos 9y ago
Should have the fork icon be an actual fork rather than the github icon.
- xyclos 9y ago
  I didn't expect this to get so many points. I'll add a bit more substance: The ability to base your own work off of others' is one of the most important features of github. It is probably also a feature that probably wouldn't necessarily be understood by somebody not in technology or not familiar with how git works. If this was my product, I would have named it it "Fork". Putting that feature front and center and making it really obvious that it is the stand out feature of the app, IMO, would help people to get right away why what you've built is so awesome. Even if they don't know what the heck github is.
azeirah 9y ago
Please pay someone to add a few thousand recipes, and please keep working on this for a few years. This can be huge.
melicerte 9y ago
Nice idea. Just that code is a universal language, english is not. Is there any way to handle multiple languages for a same recipe outside of forking? forking is one way to adresse this issue but there would not be any other value to the fork than translating a recipe. Just asking
rkuykendall-com 9y ago
Love it! Would be most useful to me with calorie support. I see some users are hacking it by adding it to the title or in the notes. That should be a strong hint.
williamle8300 9y ago
Are sign-ups disabled? Not getting my confirmation email
- keithasaurus 9y ago
  No! We've just had so many that our email server has been backed up! It should come soon. Apologies for the delay!
yousifa 9y ago
Would like to pm you. Can you please put your contact info in your profile or email me (in my profile)
kwhitefoot 9y ago
Minus marks for blank window if JS is disabled.
jdjdjdhjehd 9y ago
Why does your terms of service mention a web development agency?

363 points by keithasaurus 9y ago

If anyone wants to know the stack it's Django/Postgres on the backend, and an Elm SPA frontend. All data goes through an undocumented REST API.

brntn 9y ago
Nice work! Are you using mptt or treebeard under the hood to manage the forking?
- keithasaurus 9y ago
  Nope. It's a pretty simple relation to express without external libraries, so I figured I'd keep the granular control and just do foreign keys. Easier to refactor schema or migrate data that way.
dpapathanasiou 9y ago
Nice project! If you need more data, check out this: https://github.com/dpapathanasiou/recipebook https://github.com/dpapathanasiou/recipebook I've also enabled it to talk to this via TOTP, if you ever decide to switch to/want to enable mongo as your recipe doc store: https://github.com/dpapathanasiou/ARMS https://github.com/dpapathanasiou/ARMS Good luck with it, and keep us posted!
- keithasaurus 9y ago
  Thanks, but we have our own importer. BTW, I'd suggest writing a metadata fallback in your library. You'd be surprised how many sites will work just on parsing json linked data or schema.org's Recipe format. Good luck!

NickBusey 9y ago

This looks promising and fairly well done, but it's lacking a few critical features IMO. The first obvious one is a way to Diff a recipe and it's Forks (unless I missed that). The harder and maybe more important one, is an issue that GitHub itself still hasn't figured out how to solve either. There should be a process for a fork of a recipe being able to explain why it is better than the original, and have the fork be able to be voted on so that the 'best' fork as voted by the most users becomes the canonical 'Chicken Noodle Soup' recipe, or at least display the forks on main recipe ranked by popularity.

keithasaurus 9y ago
Yeah, it's on the list of things to do. Once there are enough recipes/users it will also be useful to see the history/ancestry of recipe. There are already a few that are forks of forks. All the recipe data is immutable and versioned, so that will happen at some point.
- jitl 9y ago
  A++ would love to see the diff feature :)
ghayes 9y ago
My first thought was to remove "Vegan Butter" from the chicken recipe (or move it into a "Dietary Substitutions"), but then I realized my forked recipe would probably just be lost in the void. Maybe the goal of forks should be more akin to pull requests?
- colordrops 9y ago
  Seems that "Dietary Substitutions" could be a first-class data type. It would be a named multi-map of one item to another one. So you could create you own "Dietary Substitution Map" named "Nut allergies" or "Halal" or "Vegan", with butter -> canola oil, milk -> soy milk, milk -> almond milk, etc. Then you could pick the particular substitution map that you care about and avoid forking recipes unnecessarily and have most recipes support most diet types if the proper map exists.

gyrocode 9y ago

Interesting idea... Phrase "fork a recipe" just got a new meaning.

mch82 9y ago
Might be worth user testing some different ways of saying "fork" in case the people who cook aren't the same as people who code. One to try might be "Remix" and "Remixes"?
- pbhjpbhj 9y ago
  "Adapt", "modify", "tweak", "personalise", ...? Is forking really good for recipes, do you want to automate inclusion of upstream changes, surely not?

joombaga 9y ago

How are you doing volume to weight conversions? Do you have a big table of weights-by-volume for different ingredients?

keithasaurus 9y ago
Yeah, densities and fuzzy matching. It'll get more intelligent eventually, but does a pretty good job on common ingredients at the moment.
- mcjiggerlog 9y ago
  It'd be good if you could customise what kinds of foods should be displayed in what measurements. E.g. I'm seeing 1 cup of steamed rice - being British I have no idea what that means. I turn metric on and it tells me 237 milliliters of rice, whereas I would be expecting grams. I'm pretty sure measuring solids by volume is a US-only thing.

AAAton 9y ago

neat idea! A weird piece of feedback: Something about the UI gives me a substantial feeling of loneliness.

zdrummond 9y ago
Odd, but I felt the same... it looks nice, its clean, and easy to read... but I didn't get the same excitement to cook as I do with say Serious Eats (example: http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2017/05/new-orleans-style-red-beans-rice-recipe.html http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2017/05/new-orleans-style...)
keithasaurus 9y ago
This cracks me up. At the same time, it sounds like it's something that should be taken seriously. Thanks for the feedback.
dhruvkar 9y ago
I can see that. But I prefer the pinboard-esque design to a flashier one. It's utilitarian and snappy - just the way my grandma made 'em.
jasonjayr 9y ago
I don't think it's loneliness -- I think it's a stark contrast to most of the other major recipe collection sites out there that are visually cluttered. I think that's a refreshing change for this type of site; You may want to consider a means of allowing users to curate and discuss recipes on sub-domains, some kind of API or some other means of splitting it up? A kind of crisp, clean social platform for food prep ....
- keithasaurus 9y ago
  Yeah, there's a whole concept of how it may work for collaboration that has yet to be implemented. Thanks for the feedback.
- AAAton 9y ago
  I don't seek more flashiness or colors. I actually appreciate the simplicity. Thoughts on what the feeling could be rooted in: I Think it would help with more than 3 recipes on the front page. That gives a feeling of emptiness that can be confused with loneliness. I also think there could be a better choice of image cropping. One that does the trick of making them all one size, but that also lets me see the food and thus inspires me.

zdrummond 9y ago

Nice! It is clear you put a lot of care into this, and I am sure there is a bucket full of features you want to get to, but I have a big request. What I really want is one step beyond a place to store recipes. I want a meal planning site! I want to create a pool of recipes that we like, and plug in how often this week we will eat at home. Then outcomes a grocery list and a plan for each day. Maybe it even sees what we have liked, and suggested new recipes to add to the pool. I am this close to pulling the trigger on PlateJoy, but my biggest hurdle is I can't add recipes I _know_ we like to their list of experimental (to us) meals. Really, I don't mind/enjoy cooking, but never seem to carve the time out to plan an entire family of four's meals a week in advance.

keithasaurus 9y ago
already in the works :)
- zdrummond 9y ago
  Great! Do you plan on open-sourcing? Anyway for me to help, even if it's feedback?
  - keithasaurus 9y ago
    Always happy to have feedback! The initial version will be rolled out in the coming weeks. Since it's a major product addition, there'll be some sort of announcement. So either sign up and you'll get a wonderful mass email notification soon. Or circle back in a few weeks. Some aspects of the site are open sourced: https://gitlab.com/keithasaurus/simple_html https://gitlab.com/keithasaurus/simple_html -- basically a port of Elm Html to Python to address what I perceive to be flaws of template rendering. https://bitbucket.org/cinckitchen/kunits https://bitbucket.org/cinckitchen/kunits -- just a unit library I wrote. It's central to the site's scaling, etc. That's a practice that will continue. But the full source will likely not be made public.
rojobuffalo 9y ago
Hey I'm also working on this (separate from OP). In the meantime you might check out https://www.eatthismuch.com/ https://www.eatthismuch.com/.

k__ 9y ago

Seeing metric units written out feels kinda odd. Otherwise very nice idea :)

dgfgfdagasdfgfa 9y ago

Looks good! The mix of Sans-Serif and Serif is a little weird.

whatnotests 9y ago

AMAZING idea. Please allow me to G+ connect or facebook connect, b/c I don't want to have yet another password to remember, and I'd like to (maybe?) share some activity on Cinc with my FB peeps. Just a thought.

keithasaurus 9y ago
At some point ... :)

LostCharacter 9y ago

Nice site! I look forward to using it in the future. One thing - when using lastpass to generate a password, it fails to fill the first password and only fills the "repeat" portion. Likewise, it fails to fill the username field for login.

keithasaurus 9y ago
Yeah, I have this problem with Mac's keychain on Safari as well. I haven't had the time to fix yet, but it's helpful to hear the same from someone else. Thanks.

zitterbewegung 9y ago

I'm working on a project and having a API for recipes would be great. I see there is a mention on your ToS but I don't see where you could access it?

keithasaurus 9y ago
It's undocumented, but feel free to check out the calls in your browser's debugger. There's no guarantee of API stability or token permanence at this point. So integrations are not advised yet.

julee04 9y ago

this is a crazy fast site! can you share what you are using to host and serve it?

keithasaurus 9y ago
AWS/nginx on a fairly minimal instance. speed probably comes from: - it's an SPA, so it's mostly just doing API calls. - the database is designed to be fast at a few orders of magnitude of size beyond its current state - everything is gzipped
- sandinmyjoints 9y ago
  And no ads, unlike pretty much every other free site with recipes!

52-6F-62 9y ago

This is a great idea! My one criticism right off the bat is the name -- the pronunciation isn't immediately obvious. ("Sink?", "Kink?", "Kins?", "Since?") Then again, I don't know if that's just me...

tedmiston 9y ago
I read it as "sink" like the ci in circle.
keithasaurus 9y ago
It's meant to be a pun for "kitchen sink," and also to work with the notion of "sync"-ing. It's pronounced like "sink." Cinc is the number 5 in Catalan and refers to the amount of senses we use when cooking.
- 52-6F-62 9y ago
  I retract my criticism then! Also, it seems I should have read the About page. Might I suggest adding it to the top navigation? I think some further explanation/self promotion (especially as you've written it) is warranted. edit: Also should have known. "Cinq" is five in French as well.
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damerms 9y ago

It's like http://www.forkingrecipes.com/landing http://www.forkingrecipes.com/landing

keithasaurus 9y ago
Cool. Hadn't seen this before. Is it your site?

overcast 9y ago

Looks like a more complex version of what I had created with imadefood over a year ago. Similar features, with the branching, etc. I've been working on an iteration into a slightly different direction. As it didn't pick up any steam. Good luck :) As others have stated below, forkthecookbook, forkingrecipes, and also recipelabs. All do basically the same thing. I just don't think there is enough market for it. Certainly was a fun little project though! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10853665 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10853665

keithasaurus 9y ago
Looks like a 502 error on the site. Is it still up? I'd be interested to see your approach if possible.
- overcast 9y ago
  Took it down to concentrate on other work, though I'd be open to discussion. hello@imadefood.com

amadeusw 9y ago

Looks great! I'm inclined to host my recipes there. But before I do that, what is the future for this site? * Do you monetize by getting a cut from the shopping cart? * Will I be able to easily download my data in the future, like I do with git repositories?

keithasaurus 9y ago
I built it primarily for myself. It's able to run on cheap hardware and is very lightweight, so I plan to keep it up indefinitely at minimal cost. I haven't begun looking into funding/monetization, but that may happen soon. All data is already available via the API, so at some point, there will be a "Download my data" feature.
- amadeusw 9y ago
  Awesome, I'm in.

DerfNet 9y ago

this is a great idea. How many times have you looked at reviews on recipes.com or whatever and the first 10 include a half dozen substitutions, basically making a different end product entirely? each of those reviews could instead be a fork. awesome!

keithasaurus 9y ago
That's the idea. Still needs some work :)

Jaepa 9y ago

The idea for this has been around for a for a while. http://forkthecookbook.com/ http://forkthecookbook.com/ goes back to 2012. And its an interesting idea. Recipes can't be copyrighted and and recipes are generally derivative. The data is generally well structured, and fairly standardized (ingredients, equipment, instructions, photo, with optional fields for prep & cook time, servings, notes, difficulty, etc). But there are two primary issues: 1. Recipes don't really have a single inheritance. For example, I cook a lot & really enjoying cooking, but when I'm trying to make something new, I won't follow a recipe. I will read a bunch recipes, and try to understand the underlying ideas & steal the ones I think are interesting, then implement my own. So say I look up Tufo Matar find 3 recipes the make my own, if I want to contribute which recipe do I fork? 2. This may have been dealt with by the use of stars. when I was using forkthecookbook, there was no way of "bookmarking" recipes and the so users forked them, which lead to the results having huge number of identical forks. That being said it seems like the star system may resolve that. But currently it looks as though unmodified copies of the recipes still appear in the Forks list, which makes it harder to find benifical changes. Also it would be nice to have a history section with a message summarizing what changed. All that said this does look nice. Additionally, a nice feature to have would be to "import" a recipe, though since phrasing of a recipe is protected this gets a little bit legally complicated.

keithasaurus 9y ago
Thanks for the great feedback. Yeah, the version history, etc will have a UI at some point. You're also right that needs to be some sort of indication for the diff between forks. We'll get there. People haven't been going crazy with forks yet (turns out if you post to hacker news, that changes :), so that will be worked on. There is an importer already! It's not perfect, but it works with most recipe sites. Thanks for pointing out forkthecookbook.com. I hadn't seen that, and it's definitely relevant.
- Jaepa 9y ago
  Oh cool I missed that. It looks like a fun project. I will definitely join and try to contribute some. Is there a better means of reporting bugs than the the contact us email form?

bruce_one 9y ago

I'm a huge fan of the fact this does weight conversions (cooking by weight is now my favourite, and I've been looking for a site that is just weights, so this looks like a win to me :-) ). One note I'd make, though, is that US, UK and Australian cups are all different sizes. (and possibly others?) And from the one recipe I saw it looks like you're using UK cups? But, possibly not as well... Either way, it might be worth calling that out, or allowing for cup-type specification similar to how you do for weights? Somewhat related, some sites call out egg weights too, and that might be something to try and do here too? (Because, if nothing else, egg weights are often written on the carton which acts as a guide; even if people don't actually weigh them.) Another thought, again... Some kind of showcasing? A la Github's explore, or even "awesome" pages? I might be off, but to me discovery is really important for recipes and I love browsing "cookies" or "desserts in a hurry" or similar; and pages akin to that with community curation could be nice? Hmm, another random idea... Some kind of more granular forking to facilitate things like "do you have a stand mixer?" and that kind of distinction? (Coupled with "equipment switches" maybe?) In the past I've done recipes that required something I didn't have, and I've had to tweak fairly aggressively to make it work, but when/if it did work, maybe adding that feedback into the recipe would be valuable? e.g. user ticks "don't have a dehydrator", and recipe tweaks to "use your oven and set it low", etc. Anyway... It looks awesome! Keep doing what you're doing, and I'll use it :-) Just some random thoughts that came to mind :-)

askvictor 9y ago
> Somewhat related, some sites call out egg weights too, and that might be something to try and do here too? Some technical recipe books I've used just specify the weight of total egg. Not that useful for a home cook though. For that matter, I'm curious what egg size descriptions is like in other countries; in Australian shops they're like condom sizes - I haven't seen 'small' or 'medium' eggs for over a decade.
- BBlarat 9y ago
  Well it depends on what you're cooking, if you make an omelette it's not a big deal if you have too much egg, but if you make say a chocolate fondant than the size of the egg is very important to get the correct texture.

rcpt 9y ago

"guthub"

keithasaurus 9y ago
lol
aracarie 9y ago
Open Sauce

kbanman 9y ago

Very well done! I had started on a similar idea a while back, but never got around to it. Even have a cute domain for it (pifork.com) in case you're interested :)

yellowapple 9y ago

So I'm trying to submit my cheesy toast recipe as a test. Unfortunately, I can't: - "1 slice" (of bread) is not a valid quantity - "to taste" (of black pepper) is not a valid quantity Oh well. I guess I won't be using this then, at least not yet.

keithasaurus 9y ago
those can be handled: 1 | slice bread (blank) | black pepper, to taste Some aspects of the UI/UX still need work. Thanks for the feedback.
- yellowapple 9y ago
  I tried both of those; still complained about an invalid quantity.

justboxing 9y ago

This looks great! Congrats on shipping!! I like that you have a scaling feature. => https://www.cinc.kitchen/info/features https://www.cinc.kitchen/info/features I know this may be too much to ask, but if you are taking requests, some basic nutritional info (ex: Protein content, avg. calories) might make it even more awesome for those of us tracking daily calories, protein (for atheletes etc). I understand things like sodium, fat might vary depending on how much salt or oil the person cooking the recipe uses, so maybe this might not be feasible to implement...

mch82 9y ago
Good idea... Formatted to look like a standard nutrition label would be a nice touch

markdown 9y ago

Viewing source made me sad. One would think that recipes of all things would survive the appification of the web.

thearn4 9y ago

An analog to Travis CI for this would be interesting and delicious. An analog to Docker images would be something like Blue Apron or Hellofresh I guess.

noway421 9y ago
>An analog to Travis CI for this would be interesting and delicious. Surprised it is not a startup yet..

tylerdurrett 9y ago

Next step: npm cook spaghetti-and-meatballs In all seriousness though, definitely looking forward to a public API. Great work!

joshumax 9y ago

I started a teensy bit of work on something sorta like this a while ago: https://github.com/joshumax/git-cooking https://github.com/joshumax/git-cooking Glad to see somebody actually brought a similar idea to fruition :)

boromi 9y ago

Does this not support issues and comments? If not those would be welcome additions.

keithasaurus 9y ago
There are comments (if enabled by the author). Not sure if issues will make sense? Would you be writing recipes collaboratively?

Toast_ 9y ago

Looks good. I think you should also consider adding the "keto" diet on there as well. Maybe meals < 10 net grams of carbs?

pyedpiper 9y ago
yes, then it will be easier to avoid diets that assume our digestive system hasn't had any evolutionary pressure since the neanderthals...
- Toast_ 9y ago
  I'm confused, do you actually think the ketogenic diet is based on a neanderthal diet?

qrv3w 9y ago

This is cool! A couple weeks ago I was looking for a way to find similar recipes (forked recipes, in a way) and I ended up making my homebaked solution. [1] [1] https://timetomakefood.com/find https://timetomakefood.com/find

m3kw9 9y ago

I was sold on Forking, I'm sure no pun intended

jerrysievert 9y ago

might I ask that recipes be presented in h-recipe format? (http://microformats.org/wiki/h-recipe http://microformats.org/wiki/h-recipe) it's simple to do, and works really well.

keithasaurus 9y ago
What's the case for h-recipe over schema.org's recipe format?

taherchhabra 9y ago

Is there a way to compare how it actually tastes? , These days I am baking cakes by watching recipes on youtube, the texture always comes correct and I use exact weights as described but the taste is somewhat lacking. It would be good if we can give reference to a local cakeshop for its similarity to the recipie

keithasaurus 9y ago
Do you mean can you do that in comments? Or are you asking if we can automate a sense of taste? The latter would be extremely difficult. Not sure I understand :)

x0 9y ago

Is there a way to do pull requests? I'd like to go through and convert a few people's °F to °C.

keithasaurus 9y ago
No, but you can fork it for yourself if you want. I think most people that are writing fahrenheit want fahrenheit. However, at some point there will likely be a conversion ability for that.
- F_r_k 9y ago
  It's a shame that units are not understood by the system. Once imputed they should be stored as K or °C and then displayed as the user wants

acalderaro 9y ago

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but should the "What's the name mean" in the about section be "What does the name mean?" or "Whats the name mean?" The first is "proper" the second is colloquial. At least that's what I thought.

keithasaurus 9y ago
It's not proper grammar :) Proper grammar would be "What does the name mean?" It's written this way simply because it's a question I've heard a lot, and when people say it, they usually combine "what" and "does" and say "What's the name mean?"
jszymborski 9y ago
The 's contraction can mean 'is', 'does' or 'has'. In this case "What's the name mean" expands to "What does the name mean". "Whats the name mean" is grammatically incorrect. :)

acalderaro 9y ago

jstoja 9y ago

I really like it. I often look for a receipe with many likes online and have to read dozens of comments to adjust it... For example the receipe of some cake where nearly all commenters advise to put 1/4 of the sugar advised. If you don't read the comment, chances are that even with a recipe approved by many people it tastes like shit. I really hope this will grow and success!

mch82 9y ago

Maybe a button to order the ingredients from Amazon or similar? Edit: And maybe a shopping basket in case someone wants to order ingredients from a few recipes. Edit (again): And don't forget about letting people order the equipment too.

linopolus 9y ago

Another site totally unusable without JS enabled, where it could be just used to add dynamics to otherwise nicely generated HTML..

omnimus 9y ago

Is it open-source project? Are you looking for contributions? I am passionate cook - designer - frontenddev. I struggle with recipe sites and where to save mines. If this was somehow libre and had future i might want to contribute.

enobrev 9y ago

I've been wanting to try this for a while. This looks great! Nice to see some excellent suggestions in this thread as well, that I definitely never thought of. I hope this is successful, as I'm a huge fan of the idea.

livas 9y ago

this is a pretty cool thing. just maybe they can change that design. Anyway, i like that.

TekMol 9y ago

Interesting project, well executed! Are you storing the recipes in Git repos or in the Postgres DB? If in Postgres, what is the format? Do you put each receipe in a single JSON field? If not, what does the data structure look like?

INTPenis 9y ago

But it's not really like github for recipes until you solve the url interface. I should be able to go to a user and their recipes with the same ease as on github. Having unique IDs for recipes exposed in the URL isn't really necessary.

midgetjones 9y ago

I think this is a brilliant idea, but I wonder if the terminology should be changed? I think the concept of saving a copy of a recipe, then editing it would come much more naturally to the 99% of people who have never heard of github.

fanpuns 9y ago

Nice project, I like the format of entering new recipes. I think you will get good uptake even from users who don't know what GH is :) Is this project open source or does it plan to be at some point? I've looked at some of the other projects out there that are similar, but many seem to die based on the founder running out of steam or getting busy with other stuff. I would really be interested in contributing to this or a a similar project if anyone has a suggestion for one that is open.

jdrzj 9y ago

Interesting, although when going on this site first time I thought there are only 3 recipes.

joepour 9y ago

This is really cool, congratulations on shipping! Have you thought about simplifying the UI by changing "Forks" to something like "Twists" or Takes (as in 'my twist on' or 'my take on'). We all understand what I fork is but the average user will likely get confused, and not just because a fork is a kitchen utensil!

roryisok 9y ago

I love this, signed up straight away. I've also recently discovered cookingforengineers.com and I love their card recipe system. it would be so cool if you could add something similar - I hate the traditional model of recipes, I always have to read and re-read them several times. I'm not sure how you would go about adding this though, its quite different from the structure you have already

keithasaurus 9y ago
Yeah, I've seen what they do. I like it in some ways. But with user-submitted input, their recipe card system at some point will be insanely wide/large/unwieldy.

bruth 9y ago

Wow! My friend and I had this idea years ago.. possibly pre-GitHub. I am glad someone finally made it! Well done. My particular interest was seeing how a recipe deviates from the original.. a recipe graph of sorts. That would a fun way to visually explore and find related recipes that are similar in ingredients.

overcast 9y ago
It's been done to death already. No one really seems to want this, even though it's awesome branching recipes.

amelius 9y ago

> Chicken Alfredo Pasta with Sweet Potato Noodles (480 Calories per Serving) You probably mean 480 kilo calories.

zimpenfish 9y ago
It's been commonly accepted that "calories" without qualification means "kilocalories" in prose / speech for many years.
ClashTheBunny 9y ago
Calories with a capital C are kilocalories.
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jordanwallwork 9y ago

I went for a pretty ambitious test recipe (Heston Blumenthal's Egg in Verjus, Verjus in Egg), unfortunately I'm not able to save it - it's complaining that one of my ingredients is an invalid weight - 3.3 grams Gellan F. If I remove it then it complains about the ingredient before it, so I'm wondering if there's an ingredient limit? It's at about the 40th listed ingredient. It took me ages to input everything so I do hope I'm able to save it! The recipe entry experience was great though, some small details that I think would improve things even further: - Esc should clear the 'text entry' modal, I kept clicking this by accident when wanting to add a new section heading and it was a nuisance having to click the 'close' link - '+ Ingredient section' should replace last ingredient row if blank - Would be nice to have section headings (similar to 'ingredient sections' for recipe methods) to break up recipes with multiple discrete sections - Hard to find errors in long recipe. Could be more prominant, or add a 'jump to next error' button?

keithasaurus 9y ago
Thanks for the detailed issue. Sorry for the trouble! Could you send me the recipe link? I'm unsure know why you'd be hitting the issues you mentioned. I'll try to respond to the issues you raised one-at-a-time: 1. 3.3 grams should be valid. Unsure why that would be a problem unless some weird unicode stuff??? 2. There's no ingredient limit. 3. Esc clearing: I agree :) Clicking on the black transparency layer should also clear it. I just need to build it in. Maybe tomorrow :) 4. Plus -- you're right. Hadn't thought of that 5. Headings: I've left that for users to choose to do on their own. Hard to get too strict about that stuff. (Same reason steps aren't numbered.) I'd suggest doing all caps and a line break at each section. 6. Errors: I agree. There are a number of things ahead of that on the list of priorities, but it's a good idea. Thanks for the descriptive feedback! Heston Blumenthal's recipes are always welcome on the site! Let me know if you run into any other trouble.

macygray 9y ago

I have a feature request: add diffs and ability to show who have starred and who have forked your recipe

trwhite 9y ago

Nice idea. You should get Schema Json (http://schema.org/ http://schema.org/) on this so the recipes can be crawled properly.

xyclos 9y ago

Should have the fork icon be an actual fork rather than the github icon.

xyclos 9y ago
I didn't expect this to get so many points. I'll add a bit more substance: The ability to base your own work off of others' is one of the most important features of github. It is probably also a feature that probably wouldn't necessarily be understood by somebody not in technology or not familiar with how git works. If this was my product, I would have named it it "Fork". Putting that feature front and center and making it really obvious that it is the stand out feature of the app, IMO, would help people to get right away why what you've built is so awesome. Even if they don't know what the heck github is.

azeirah 9y ago

Please pay someone to add a few thousand recipes, and please keep working on this for a few years. This can be huge.

melicerte 9y ago

Nice idea. Just that code is a universal language, english is not. Is there any way to handle multiple languages for a same recipe outside of forking? forking is one way to adresse this issue but there would not be any other value to the fork than translating a recipe. Just asking

rkuykendall-com 9y ago

Love it! Would be most useful to me with calorie support. I see some users are hacking it by adding it to the title or in the notes. That should be a strong hint.

williamle8300 9y ago

Are sign-ups disabled? Not getting my confirmation email

keithasaurus 9y ago
No! We've just had so many that our email server has been backed up! It should come soon. Apologies for the delay!

yousifa 9y ago

Would like to pm you. Can you please put your contact info in your profile or email me (in my profile)

kwhitefoot 9y ago

Minus marks for blank window if JS is disabled.

jdjdjdhjehd 9y ago

Why does your terms of service mention a web development agency?