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Pleasantly surprised by the amount of plant-based dishes. You and your SO are vegan/vegetarian? There are many great tools when it comes to recipes, it is just
by lebaux 4y ago
Pleasantly surprised by the amount of plant-based dishes. You and your SO are vegan/vegetarian?
There are many great tools when it comes to recipes, it is just I am not all that excited about cooking, maintaining a recipe book, tracking nutrients. This goes for the vast majority of people. If I was you, I would track down users of similar apps and ask them what would make them use your spin on the idea, what they tried in the past, what they miss elsewhere, that is a must-have feature other apps/website already have... Get the insight who already uses a competing product. Couple of these people will give you more insights than whole HN. Look for hardships, explore desire.
A "prestige" might be a factor. Ability to have followers, achievements, the whole social shebang. I understand that might go against the principle of simple, just spitballing. As I said, I am not that person.
If you ask anyone on HN, they will tell you data portability, nobody wants to be locked in... that is nobody who is a nerd and cares about privacy, retention. Regular users (sadly) care much less. My mom likes to print out recipes from the Internet, paper is much easier to work with in a messy kitchen. Plus, the ability to generate good-looking PDFs doubles as a poor man's export.
I would add a mission statement, basically assure people the thing won't be gone in a year. If you can't, also good. Say it is an experiment, allow people to contact you, outline the plan, ideally address how are you planning to pay for hosting, if there are plans to monetize, introduce your kid.
That is all I got for you today, good luck!