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Hi! I feel like I'm part of your target demographic. I almost signed up, but a few things stopped me. * I echo that free-trial-rollover-to-paid is off-putting

Hi! I feel like I'm part of your target demographic. I almost signed up, but a few things stopped me. * I echo that free-trial-rollover-to-paid is off-putting * I can't seem to find information about the people who are putting together your recipes. Who are they? Where are they from? Where have they cooked? * I also can't seem to find UI information about your app. Particularly, how easy is it to regenerate meals? Is nutritional information shown? * What guarantees are there that if I save a recipe, that it will continue to be saved? (i.e. for your 2nd party recipes, what if a C&D comes in or you lose the license?) * What import/export features are there in the App? Can I load in my own recipes that will be included in your rotation? Can I export your recipes into 3rd party utilities or into a markdown format? Any one of these is mild, but taken together it walked me away from signing up for the free trial. I'm actively looking for products in this space and I'm 100% willing to pay $10/mo to remove the dinner frustrations from my life. The featuresets I'm looking for: * Recipes by high-trust sites and chefs (NYT, seriouseats, etc.) * Easy meal generation (echo all of your points above and in this thread!) * Easy meal re-generation * Individual recommendation controls (thumbsup/thumbsdown individual recipes) * Avoiding vendor lock-in (easy recipe import/export in a sane data format) * Cross-platform (mobile ios/android, mac, linux, web) * (Bonus) open-source One technical question, how are you handling meal collation? I'd love to see your high-level technical stack there. Any ML? Individual recipe linking? Very curious :)

cschiller 5y ago
Thank you for your structured and helpful feedback! Let me try to cover some of the points: - We have a small team of passionate foodies producing their own recipes and reviewing/curating weekly recommendations for our users. The team has an international background (incl. US/EU/Asia), which helps to tap into various experiences when it comes to generating the weekly menus. They have worked at some of the most popular European recipe apps. Feel free to check out our Instagram account to explore some of the recipes they have produced so far (https://www.instagram.com/kitchenful/ https://www.instagram.com/kitchenful/) - We provide our users with a personal menu each week. In addition there is the option to choose from standard categories and your own favorite recipes. Currently it’s not possible to import your own recipes, but we have it in the backlog. So far this hasn’t been a blocker for our users to use our service on a weekly basis. - As of now we don’t have a feature to export the recipes. Mostly because so far we didn’t get that request from our users. But I see the peace of mind value in it as a user and will look into this. - We are building our frontend clients with Flutter. So we look forward to supporting many platforms (iOS, Android, Web, Mac, Linux, ...) soon, stay tuned. - Currently we are working with custom ranking and rotation algos for the recipe collation. But ML definitely on the horizon as we increase the number of data points :) Happy to ping you once we have implemented a bit more features on the multi-platform and recipe import/export side. Excited to get your early feedback then.

cschiller 5y ago

Thank you for your structured and helpful feedback! Let me try to cover some of the points: - We have a small team of passionate foodies producing their own recipes and reviewing/curating weekly recommendations for our users. The team has an international background (incl. US/EU/Asia), which helps to tap into various experiences when it comes to generating the weekly menus. They have worked at some of the most popular European recipe apps. Feel free to check out our Instagram account to explore some of the recipes they have produced so far (https://www.instagram.com/kitchenful/ https://www.instagram.com/kitchenful/) - We provide our users with a personal menu each week. In addition there is the option to choose from standard categories and your own favorite recipes. Currently it’s not possible to import your own recipes, but we have it in the backlog. So far this hasn’t been a blocker for our users to use our service on a weekly basis. - As of now we don’t have a feature to export the recipes. Mostly because so far we didn’t get that request from our users. But I see the peace of mind value in it as a user and will look into this. - We are building our frontend clients with Flutter. So we look forward to supporting many platforms (iOS, Android, Web, Mac, Linux, ...) soon, stay tuned. - Currently we are working with custom ranking and rotation algos for the recipe collation. But ML definitely on the horizon as we increase the number of data points :) Happy to ping you once we have implemented a bit more features on the multi-platform and recipe import/export side. Excited to get your early feedback then.