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It's my intention to keep the site ad free and tracking free. Currently there's no external javascript, fonts, or analytics. I'm using cloudflare, hosting image

by soperj 4y ago

It's my intention to keep the site ad free and tracking free. Currently there's no external javascript, fonts, or analytics. I'm using cloudflare, hosting images on S3 and am using IPInfo to figure out where people are located based on IP (so that I can show local sources of ingredients). If you're logged in, it stores your location once, and doesn't hit IPInfo again. I'm open to changing any of these things if there are concerns. I honestly just used what was convenient and hadn't really thought about them too much until this post. I also don't send emails out for anything and it's only used for password reset functionality. Feel free to use spam address and don't put your real name (good practice everywhere). Also just wanted to shout out to some of the posts on HN that have helped me along the way. @Simonw - for this, very helpful, and was how I built my search functionality - https://simonwillison.net/2017/Oct/5/django-postgresql-faceted-search/ https://simonwillison.net/2017/Oct/5/django-postgresql-facet... @35mm & @raunak - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32316604 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32316604 - Is the reason I'm posting this ShowHN today, since it got me off my ass. Thanks, I'll be around if anyone has any questions or comments (or if you find a bug - hopefully not!).

snoopy_telex 4y ago
Thank you for building this. It looks interesting :) I have two things that I've always wished for in a recipe manager. 1. Using other recipes as an ingredient. If I have a kickass pie dough recipe that I use for multiple dishes, I'd like to just say, one unit of <pie dough recipe> 2. Alternatives collected. If I have a pancake recipe, having alternatives like "With blueberries" and "With chocolate chips" and what not be... related, would be awesome.
- soperj 4y ago
  #2 is actually a good point. There's the ability to fork, but I haven't actually saved what it was forked from. Would be pretty easy to add to the recipe page. Something like "forked from", and "forks of". #1 is pretty easy to do, since it's all markdown, just include the link to the pie dough recipe. At some point I think it would be good to do cooking techniques as well; it took me a long time to actually figure out what I was missing with sourdough (drop test to see if the starter was good), so I would sometimes get really great results and sometimes really poor and I couldn't figure out why. Also want to have kind of a pantry list, where items off your grocery list get stored, that way it could warn you if you bought bacon and it's about to go out of date, I hate wasting food.

by soperj 4y ago

snoopy_telex 4y ago

Thank you for building this. It looks interesting :) I have two things that I've always wished for in a recipe manager. 1. Using other recipes as an ingredient. If I have a kickass pie dough recipe that I use for multiple dishes, I'd like to just say, one unit of <pie dough recipe> 2. Alternatives collected. If I have a pancake recipe, having alternatives like "With blueberries" and "With chocolate chips" and what not be... related, would be awesome.

soperj 4y ago
#2 is actually a good point. There's the ability to fork, but I haven't actually saved what it was forked from. Would be pretty easy to add to the recipe page. Something like "forked from", and "forks of". #1 is pretty easy to do, since it's all markdown, just include the link to the pie dough recipe. At some point I think it would be good to do cooking techniques as well; it took me a long time to actually figure out what I was missing with sourdough (drop test to see if the starter was good), so I would sometimes get really great results and sometimes really poor and I couldn't figure out why. Also want to have kind of a pantry list, where items off your grocery list get stored, that way it could warn you if you bought bacon and it's about to go out of date, I hate wasting food.