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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

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.

roel_v 16y ago
It won't be painless, but you could sell registration keys through your website and have the user enter them in the app. Either way I'm really looking forward to this, please keep us posted! If you could partner with a high-quality recipe website, this could be a killer app (there are thousands of recipe websites but most of them just have 1-paragraph braindumps, very hard to follow. It's going to be a major challenge to find a way to let users input the 'steps' of a recipe, including which tasks are parallel etc. There certainly won't be a way to do this automatically in software, each recipe will have to be 'converted' manually). I'm willing to contribute recipe instructions, even if it means I have to hand-edit xml or yaml or whatever :)
- tibbon 16y ago
  Or they could do microtransactions in the app to sell more content as well. Then Apple takes care of the billing.
megablast 16y ago
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.
PassTheAmmo 16y ago
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?

roel_v 16y ago

It won't be painless, but you could sell registration keys through your website and have the user enter them in the app. Either way I'm really looking forward to this, please keep us posted! If you could partner with a high-quality recipe website, this could be a killer app (there are thousands of recipe websites but most of them just have 1-paragraph braindumps, very hard to follow. It's going to be a major challenge to find a way to let users input the 'steps' of a recipe, including which tasks are parallel etc. There certainly won't be a way to do this automatically in software, each recipe will have to be 'converted' manually). I'm willing to contribute recipe instructions, even if it means I have to hand-edit xml or yaml or whatever :)

tibbon 16y ago
Or they could do microtransactions in the app to sell more content as well. Then Apple takes care of the billing.

megablast 16y ago

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.

PassTheAmmo 16y ago

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?