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Show HN: Tinder, but to decide what to eat
Hello HN,
My girlfriend and I waste too much energy to decide what to eat. Every day, we would text each other, "what do we eat tonight" messages, and go over options and many times spend too much time on deciding. I am an indie dev and created this app to solve my own problem: decide with my girlfriend what to eat for dinner.
Initially, I created a simple app, in which we listed all the recipes we ever prepared, and it would propose randomly three of them. We would then choose together one of them. This app[0] turned into a tinder-like app, which would propose every day a set of recipes to my girlfriend and me - we would swipe and go for the first match.
If have some time, give it a try and feedback is very appreciated!
Cheers,
Kiru
[0] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/meal-planner-dinner-ideas/id6451110287 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/meal-planner-dinner-ideas/id64...
- bmalum 2y agoNice! Solving this problem with technology. Looks amazing. Well done!
- aman2k4 2y ago[flagged]
- nicbou 2y agoThis is barely relevant to the discussion. All your recent comments are a link to this website.
- 0b01 2y agoFor me I like to use a tournament tracker.
- rhabarba 2y ago> Tinder, but for couples :(
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- stavros 2y agoIt's not even called Dinder.
- rhabarba 2y agoWhat a loss!
- wonderwonder 2y agoI'm sorry, I'm out.
- jotaen 2y agoWhile that may be a cute pun (but probably also only if you know the “like tinder but for meal planning” backstory), I think their current name is a much better choice overall, as it’s clear and concise on it’s own.
- deleted 2y ago[deleted]
- KaoruAoiShiho 2y agoActually a great idea
- strken 2y agoThis is not limited to the app under discussion, but how well do iOS emulators and compatibility layers for Android phones work? Are they anywhere close to as good as, say, Proton and Wine?
- hkon 2y agoHave you considered just eating two separate dinners?
- Nevermark 2y agoAh. An app to find people who want to eat the same thing.
- CrazyStat 2y agoThis is a cool idea. Unfortunately I’m not going to pay $20/year to make deciding on dinner slightly easier. Sorry. I understand why people want subscriptions for recurring revenue. But I hate having dozens and dozens of subscriptions for niche services. If this was like a $10 one time purchase I might go for it.
- spamtarget 2y agowell said, this makes zero sense to be a subscription service
- smt88 2y agoAll web-based software makes sense as a subscription because of ongoing maintenance costs. Servers, security updates, bug fixes, dealing with app stores, testing on new devices... it adds up in an unpredictable way. That's not even considering the many subscriptions a developer has to pay, including to Apple.
- culopatin 2y agoMakes sense as a subscription for the developer, not the user. I’d not pay for this, subscription or not. It’s up to the person trying to sell me something to either convince me to pay (not happening in this case) or figure out other ways of making money (deals with restaurants, premium features, idk). I get that there is work behind it, there is work behind everything, and I get they are reoccurring. What you mention is still valid, but in the real world, sob story about costs to run something are not something the customer cares about.
- nighthawk454 2y agoThat's... not the user's problem. This is a fine and cool project don't get me wrong. But the overall 'subscription everything' model is not really justified by costs. The subscriptions are usually orders of magnitude more than the true operating cost. It's not the customer's job to pay you forever bc Apple wants a developer license. It's the business's job to make sure it's sustainable with the costs that it has / has chosen to bear. That's the backpressure on business models - they're not all viable. Just because you _could_ add in a bunch of servers and cloud costs and whatever, doesn't mean it's inherently justified. The problem is more that it's gotten _so_ cheap to run, that charging each user a seemingly-nominal 5c/day fee doesn't feel bad to an average person for a chance at value. And at scale you get enough people who figure "ah it's not that much", and end up with massive profit margins. Profiting off the disparity between the individual choice and the aggregate.
- dankwizard 2y agoPutting this behind a subscription is crazy.
- bravoetch 2y agoThe outcome of venture funded business models. Before this, we solved a problem for customers and collected a markup or fee. And now the problem we solve is 'when can VC get their money?'. There's no incentive to solve problems for anyone except VC, and you have to convince the customer to give up money, or attention (for growth!). Until this changes, we end up with 'what's for dinner' apps that do almost nothing while wanting an annual subscription fee. Funny to see people posting 'but servers cost money'. That problem is created by the app.
- bentt 2y agoLocal grocers could just pay for advertising or placement space in such an app.
- hanniabu 2y agoThey'd just end up doing both
- cageface 2y agoThis is the unfortunate reality of the app business today. Without constant ad spend it's very very difficult to acquire new users. And constant ad spend is of course not possible with a low one-time payment for the app.
- simoncion 2y ago> Without constant ad spend it's very very difficult to acquire new users. If you're not VC funded, who gives a fuck how many users you have or how quickly you get more? Unless the cost of whatever backing online resources you need doesn't scale fairly closely with the number of users you have, the only thing number of users matters for is the size of the check you get at the end of the year, rather than the profit percentage from that check.
- casta 2y agoI don't mean to belittle your app, I can't try it 'cause I don't have iOS. We did solve the problem in a much easier way though. We do have 40 recipes we usually cycle through. I wrote them in a spreadsheet and marked them based on who can cook them, if it's brunch, lunch or dinner, quick or elaborate, summery or wintery. Then in another sheet I just create a list of those recipes/dishes picked randomly based on the day of the month. If we start the discussion "what do we eat tonight", I can just open the spreadsheet. 99% of the time proposing the option for that day on the sheet gives us closure and we're done.
- thedanbob 2y agoMy wife does the same kind of thing, except she wrote a whole web app that I host on my homelab server (we're both rails devs). The app keeps track of upcoming meals on a calendar, number of leftover servings in the freezer, ingredients needed for upcoming meals, etc.
- aeroevan 2y agoAn extension or integration with https://mealie.io/ https://mealie.io/ would be a neat thing have (we selfhost mealie but are still building out recipes).
- scotty79 2y agoWhat an organized person. I just pull stuff out of the fridge and randomly cook whatever I can with it and if there's no good option I go to the store to buy some random things to resupply the fridge.
- prmoustache 2y agoIt is nice to have ideas that you can pick up but being so organized sounds so exhaustingly boring...I would have suggested a deck of cards with recipes that you can pick up randomly. Also, what about that "who can cook them" column in that spreadsheet? Obviously there are personal prefs but you guys have the recipe stored, surely anyone can cook it.
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- casta 2y agoI don't mean to belittle your app that unfortunately I can't try it since I don't have iOS. We did solve the problem in a much easier way though. We do have 40 recipes we usually cycle through. I wrote them in a spreadsheet and marked them based on who can cook them, if it's brunch, lunch or dinner, quick or elaborate, summery or wintery. Then in another sheet I just create a list of those recipes/dishes picked randomly based on the day of the month. If we start the discussion "what do we eat tonight", I can just open the spreadsheet. 99% of the time proposing the option for that day on the sheet gives us closure and we're done.
- justinl33 2y agoI've seen people pay a yearly subscription for much less, so I'm not going to comment
- nritchie 2y agoNice idea. It would be great to plan a week's menu using something like this. Currently, we alternate weeks and it ends up being one week of the same 6 recipes and one week with slightly more variety. Then there is the kids who won't eat 80% the foods we'd like to. :-( Tough to please everyone.
- djbusby 2y agoUrbanSpoon (again)?
- passwordoops 2y agoNo. Dinnr (again).
- ata_aman 2y agoIt would be cool to be able to see what the other person has already swiped on or "favorited" so I can just look at that first to see if there is anything there I can immediately swipe on.
- scotty79 2y agoThat costs extra on tinder.
- MichaelRo 2y ago[flagged]
- inquisitor27552 2y ago[flagged]
- lucasllinasm 2y agoIs there a way with which you could expand the number of recipes available? You have a set of ingredients at home (or easily purchaseable)—an evolution of this app could have you tell the app "look, I want recipes that use any of these 45 different ingredients, what recipes have we never tried?" And it has access to some big database of possibilities.
- inquisitor27552 2y ago[flagged]
- munchler 2y agoPlease tell me this is satire.
- inquisitor27552 2y agoit isnt, my girlfriend will love it but i donf love her that much to build it
- massung 2y agoWhen my wife and I were dating, we came up with a simple rule: Whoever was driving would mentally pick a place and start driving there. The other - before getting to the parking lot - could pick anywhere else and that’s where we would go instead. We’ve been happily married 26 years now and still follow that same rule for choosing where to eat. ;-)
- m463 2y agoI'm curious how many ways both of you have gamed this system over the years. :)
- massung 2y agoHonestly, most of the "gaming" comes from (quoting from another response in the thread) decision fatigue. For example... My wife absolutely hates seafood. So, if I don't want to pick I just start heading in the direction of somewhere like Red Lobster and she'll always think of something else rapidly. She'll do the same to me with something like a vegetarian place. What's hilarious is when one of us starts heading somewhere we think the other won't like and they don't change it. We end up eating there and usually have a great time anyway. I've learned to like eggplant that way, and she's started growing more fond of Thai food.
- prmoustache 2y agoI guess that stuff can probably only work in US of A. Wherever I am going, regardless of the transport method, there are multiple places where we could go in the same direction. You wouldn't be able to find out wherever one is going until the last minute or so.
- gloflo 2y agoCould be a rural place anywhere in the world actually
- tourmalinetaco 2y ago
- xttjsn 2y agoIt crashes on my first 3 attempts after setting up the family code, so I’ll probably not try it again.
- xttjsn 2y agoIt crashes on my first three attempts after setting up the family code so I will probably not give another try :(
- kiru_io 2y agoDev here: Crap. Can you drop me a mail with the family code? (whatdinner@kiru.io)
- jayd16 2y agoWhy is it not called Dinnr?
- tesch1 2y agoDinder
- huhtenberg 2y agoNot bad, esp. given that "dinde" is "turkey" in French. Turkinator, basically.
- WaylonKenning 2y agoFor a marketing app like this, really the people paying should be the restaurants. They pay a bit of money, they appear a bit more often, and a bit more at the beginning of the list of dishes displayed. Cool idea and makes a lot of sense! Also should consider what was selected last time - a bit of a predictive algorithm would be useful to start providing towards my likes a bit quicker.
- passwordoops 2y ago"which we listed all the recipes we ever prepared," Where are the restaurants in this?
- tonymet 2y agoreally fun idea. one marketing approach would be to use suggestive foods like squash or eggplant. About your girlfriend, she wants you to make a decision. That's why you're ending up in a recursive loop.
- passwordoops 2y agoNeat idea, but I have to echo the negative sentiment on the subscription. I get there are costs associated to running an app, but this is not a problem-solution I would pay for. Hopefully you do find a demographic who will. Good luck!
- nextcaller 2y agoThink of a pun and pay for a Shark Tank ad, they'll love the idea
- nirui 2y agoIf it's a recipe focused app, then maybe it should not be a "swipe daily" thing, as what's in the fridge right not maybe not matching what's on the phone, and it takes time and effort to buy and store food. You probably need a food purchasing to-do list feature, and allow user to plan ahead of purchase. But overall, it's a very nice idea with many potentials. When I was little, the feeling of anticipating a good dinner always keeps me excited the entire day. Maybe this app can bring that feeling back.
- kassner 2y agoI had a stab at fixing the mismatch between fridge and database by allowing you to exclude recipes with a particular ingredient. Surely this type of filter can be incorporated into other recipe apps. Check out the demo video in the README: https://github.com/kassner/whattocook https://github.com/kassner/whattocook
- Kwpolska 2y agoIt would be useful to have some nuance. Some dishes don't work without an ingredient, whereas you can skip or substitute that same ingredient in other dishes.
- kassner 2y agoI understand that and I’m all ears for suggestions! AFAIK I’m the only user, and our household doesn’t have issues with that. We also don’t have complete recipes, because we are pretty decent with cooking and coming up with stuff, so the main use is for idea generation and making some decision. Recipes like “meatballs with mashed potatoes”, if we don’t have cream to make the mash, you either exclude the cream, or you can just decide “meatballs” is good enough of a suggestion and make some spaghetti to go with it. The idea was to aid us getting over the indecision hill, and for that it has been pretty great.
- wonderwonder 2y agoDo you have to input your own recipes? It doesn't just provide recipes and you can select your favorites? How long does it take for someone to input 40 recipes? I feel like this should essentially just be a cookbook app with a random function call.
- simoncion 2y agoAre you saying that there's a $20/year subscription fee to put your manually-entered data into this dev's cloud storage and do some simple access control? Is this a difficult thing to programatically do for one's own Apple/Google-provided gratis cloud storage? Even a couple-thousand recipes wouldn't take much space at all, so "I don't want to hit users' quota" doesn't seem a good excuse to not do it this way.
- cork0plent3 2y agoFunny, there was something called "Why Don't We..." back in 2010 where people would post dates they wanted to go on. It was a lot of fun because dates were inventive and noval and it's how I found my current life partner.
- zacharybk 2y agoThat’s fun, what did you do on your first date? Ironically, there was also one called how about we.
- bungmap 2y ago[flagged]
- yreg 2y ago>choosy beggars Nobody here wants a discount. No one is begging for anything. People are providing the feedback they were asked for.
- crossroadsguy 2y agoThere is absolutely ZERO case for a dedicated app for this thing - a web app is 'more than' more than enough. Glad to see a subscription fee. Totally makes sense. Without that I could not have stomached it. So very venture capital - solving real world problems, one subscription at a time. Nice.
- asynchronous 2y agoAgreed wholeheartedly- must be a SV trained individual.
- dcrazy 2y agoI have no idea what you’re on about. The early iPhone App Store was full of apps like this. Someone who liked writing apps would scratch an itch and make it available to the world. Then venture money hit the app stores and it became a race to snarf up address books and precise locations with free apps that extinguished not just the craftsman iPhone developer, but also sucked all the oxygen out of the indie Mac ecosystem too.
- Kwpolska 2y agoThere's nothing wrong with writing an app to scratch your itch. But this app could be a web app, and I don't see any value in it being a subscription. The cost of hosting something like this is so minuscule that I'd make it free and just eat the cost if I were running it.
- netdevnet 2y agoDo you regularly give away money just because it is a minuscule amount?
- Kwpolska 2y agoI would benefit from the app myself, primarily. And I would need to pay to host it anyway. Others may also make use of it, with no warranty, and no guarantee of me keeping the service running for any length of time.
- cjoelrun 2y agoLol. I read the title as Tinder, but they(the girl) decides what to eat. Could work.
- sqeaky 2y agoIsn't this taking something that should be relationship building and outsourcing to an app? How long can a relationship last when people refuse to settle the littlest of disagreements like rasonable adults?
- rendall 2y agoI don't see it that way. It's a potential tool that adults can use together, like a bulletin board or index cards or pen and paper.
- Johnny555 2y agoDeciding on dinner needn't be a disagreement, it's just another task that needs to be done in a relationship.
- shadowmnifold 2y agoI am really disagreeable person and hard to deal with but I have never had this problem. The whole idea is just fucking dumb.
- sqeaky 2y agoYeah, totally, working out what is for dinner is great way to learn about people you have dinner with. What foods do they like? Why do they like, dislike, or simply cannot partake in some foods? And less direct but deeper notions like: What makes arguments happen with this person? What happens when this person lashes out on a small scale? Can I react sensibly to this person disagreeing with me? This and a million other little nuances are super important for successful relationships.
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- yaomtc 2y agoAny plans to extend it to the other 60% of smartphone users?
- kiru_io 2y agoDev here: that is on my to-do list, once I fixed the most common bugs in the ios version, I will start with the android version.
- yaomtc 2y agoGreat! Best of luck
- netdevnet 2y agoIt's no secret that Android users are money tight compared to Apple users. It makes sense to start on iOs and gauge subscribers before spending additional resources on making another app
- dhoe 2y agoI'm the person most positive about technology of all my friends, and this gets a no from me. A relationship is an endless sequence of coordination problems, and you need to work out a way to do these effortlessly. Defer to the person with stronger opinions, everybody decides half of the time, some quid pro quo, I mean there's just endless ways to solve this in an easier and more fun way than using an app.
- prmoustache 2y agoYeah the last thing I'd want when we talk dinner with my partner is to both of us grabbing a smartphone and start swiping.
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- nighthawk454 2y agoHey, just wanted to say nice app :) Lotta people talking about broader app/subscription ecosystem issues, which hopefully you can take as off-topic to your specific project. Making a cool useful thing and putting it on the internet is great, cheers.
- excalibur 2y agoDoes this only work for two people? Some of us have significantly larger households. Not that we're on iOS anyway.
- kiru_io 2y agoIn principle, it should work with more than two people, but I haven't tested it thoroughly. Btw, I have added an Android wait list [0] [0] https://whatdinner.com/ https://whatdinner.com/ (second button)
- iamhamm 2y agoWhat about an app to tell you what kind of sub sandwich to eat? Could call it Grinder!
- artpi 2y agoDINDER
- kassner 2y agoI solved this problem with a different approach: computer tells you what to cook, period. It allows some variation given you might not have all the ingredients at home, but that’s about it. I made a AGPL project out of it, been using it for a year now, and it has been surprisingly helpful. https://www.kassner.com.br/en/2023/09/21/what-to-cook-launch/ https://www.kassner.com.br/en/2023/09/21/what-to-cook-launch... https://github.com/kassner/whattocook https://github.com/kassner/whattocook
- bromuro 2y ago> computer tells you what to cook, period. I like to do sports, I prefer my body and physical activities help me decide.
- eliaskg 2y agoMissed name opportunity: Dinnder
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- throwaway984393 2y ago[dead]
- wildekek 2y agoThis would make sense as a Mealie extension. You have a content (recipe) bootstrapping issue.
- raylad 2y agoThe app is unusable to me because you have to pick three out of only four initial options, none of which appeal to me actually. Another problem is that the initial options don’t list ingredients, so it’s unclear whether they contain anything that the user may not want to eat.
- tourmalinetaco 2y agoYou may prefer favorite picker: https://github.com/antialiasis/favorite-picker https://github.com/antialiasis/favorite-picker Your comment made me remember of and realize this is basically the same thing, just presented differently and with the need to populate the entries yourself.
- dylanwenzlau 2y ago[flagged]
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- jotaen 2y ago> Oh God it’s even got a subscription for it. This app is literally garbage. Can you elaborate on why you think it’s “garbage” when an indie dev is trying to make money off something they created? May I ask what you do for a living? (Just curious.)
- sedansesame 2y agoPersonally, I think the pricing issue is related to the web app issue from the parent comment. Even as a free iOS app, there is the $99/year Apple Developer fee, on top of any server costs. Meanwhile, a web app can be used by anyone on any device, and if designed properly, can be hosted for free on a number of platforms. If the goal is to make money from casual users, an indie iOS app is the move. ... But that would not fly for what I presume to be a very large fraction of the HN audience that lives and breathes code. What could have been an interesting and tweakable open source project built in a weekend, sold as a closed untweakable app at a $20/year subscription, only for iPhones? That would certainly be quite a bold sell.
- tourmalinetaco 2y agoFirst off, great job misrepresenting my point! Secondly, let me ask you this: did you spend the money on the app? I’m going to assume no, just for the sake of argument, since obviously you’ve bought it and will pay for many years to come since you want to support an indie dev. But again, for sake of argument let’s say you didn’t, why not? Because at its core you didn’t find it valuable. But they deserve to make money off their creations right? So by your logic everyone should buy this, regardless of value, because they deserve the money. Except they don’t. They have a right to charge $20/yr for an app they made in a weekend, and I have every right as a consumer to refuse that and even mock it. Especially when they make poor business decisions such as taking on unnecessary fixed costs and limiting themselves to ~50% of the market. This is what they call the free market, and I suggest you go back to Econ 101 if you don’t understand. As for what I do for a living: I provide value to others and receive monetary compensation in return, something this app fails to do.
- android521 2y agoThere is an idea like this coming out every year and they mostly failed. I think it is described in one of pg essays.
- seu 2y agoI'm not sure if I'm getting this: people need an app to decide something that can easily be decided by... talking to each other?!
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- hi_hi 2y agoI was really hoping this would be a thing that gave you home cooked meal recipes, for normies. Not the bullshit "I fancy myself as a chef and want to brag about how much effort i put into my family dinners" kind of recipes, but the "oh my god, I'm so brain dead after a day at work, what can I throw together that is healthy, tasty and relatively simple". Where are those recipes? Like ones that Kenji does, but without having to do everything from scratch because I'm lazy and would forgo some amount of taste for pouring a packet or jar of something over some other, more fresh, stuff and cook it for 30 minutes. Thats real person minutes, not "Jamie Oliver, this has been timed to perfection by a team of 10 pro chefs who spent 5 days tweaking everything so I could rock up infront of a camera and make it look effortless" minutes. Oh, and while I'm at it, if you could also make these recipes palatable to my 8 yo child so I don't have to cook A WHOLE OTHER MEAL while brain dead and lazy, I would happily like and subscribe and even pay the equivalent of my Netflix subscription. Thank you.
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- metalman 2y agoas a foodie,with hypoglcymia, who also trained under the best chef in Canada,amongst other excellent food teachers, what would take sn application to the next level would a further evaluation of the users physiological state so; when my blood sugar bottoms out, I can EAT and need a fully balanced meal,and I have learned to look at my hand ,vibrating or trembling as a proxy for hunger and this is something a phones accelerometer could detect and use as data for recipie suggestions, and in my case I have to eat something before I can cook a meal ,so go into a whole menue sugestion I dont need or would use such an app, as I invented food,but I can see how it could be very helpfull,especialy in a busy family situation with diverse diatary requirements
- emsign 2y agoWhy not both? See what others around you want to eat, swipe together, meet up with a stranger in a restaurant and eat together. Maybe get to know them, maybe not.
- Miraltar 2y agoThat actually sounds great
- hansonkd 2y agoI saw a startup recently doing this: https://timeleft.com https://timeleft.com Matches you with 5 people to have dinner on wednesdays.
- moralestapia 2y agoThey charge a lot of money for that. DOA for me.
- Tajnymag 2y agoDo they? How much? I filled the quiz, then I got requested to create an account. I guess they show the price after they have the users fully signed up.
- jorisboris 2y agoSomewhere around 12 usd for one diner I believe. You can also get a monthly subscription.
- Tajnymag 2y agoI see how that isn't a pocket money amount of cash. However, that's still a price I would be willing to pay to have a single shot try at the event. I might actually try it this month.
- moralestapia 2y ago
- dmje 2y agoWeird, unlike everyone else on this thread I just don't see this as a problem to be solved. My wife and I talk to each other (I know, crazy, right?) and one of us suggests something to eat and then we decide. No subscription required.
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- bovermyer 2y agoNeat idea and good execution. However, I would not personally use this, because I plan meals for a full week in advance, trying to arrange for both a style of cuisine and for repeated ingredients. So, I'm not your target audience.
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- cvburgess 2y agoThis is an awesome app that my partner half-joking had been asking me to build for years. Glad to see someone actually made it!
- woodylondon 2y agoI like the idea and face the same challenge. I’ve just installed it and, from my first impressions, it seemed a bit basic. Here’s what I expected: Hundreds of recipes that I could swipe left and right through, allowing me to build up a typical selection of what I would usually eat. Instead, I was presented with only three choices, none of which I would generally consider. A simple way to send the code to my wife — via imessage, Telegram, etc. Instead, I had to tell her in person! :) This presents the perfect opportunity to delve into shopping lists where the wife wants something healthy, and the I crave a burger. I can think of quite a few features you could add if the app develops further. Also, like the comment below about having a stranger over for dinner (not for dating purposes), it could involve a couple or someone visiting a new country who would appreciate a local showing them around and perhaps covering the dinner cost. Once the app learns your food preferences and interests, that could be quite exciting! There might already be an app that does this; I’m not sure. Swiping left and right on both food likes / dislikes and also general interests.
- lenerdenator 2y agoMan, if it has the same success rate as Tinder did for me, I'm gonna starve.
- aruametello 2y agoI must say, coming from a bad "tinder date" in the weekend i just lol´d, thanks stranger.
- gverrilla 2y agoThat's on you and/or the other person, not on tinder...
- BudaDude 2y agoTinder isn't exactly innocent in this. Tinder isn't making money on people who match with people successfully and never come back to the app. The managers tweaking the algorithm know this.
- Sohcahtoa82 2y agoDating apps are hard to make profitable. Your most successful customer is the one that no longer needs your platform, so a monthly fee or relying on ads does not work. You end up with a perverse incentive to make sure users only ever get "okay" matches, and never GOOD or even GREAT matches. But if you charge a one-time fee, then the barrier of entry is too high and you won't get many people buying, especially once the people who are frankly undateable start bad-mouthing your app. You could try a method where you only pay once you decide you landed a good match, but that's going to be impossible to enforce without greatly giving up privacy.
- Tajnymag 2y agoStill could be way less hostile than what Tinder is right now.
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- marmaduke 2y agoJust brainstorming here, but as a parent and someone who subscribed to a weekly CSA, it’d be a big boost to be able to take a picture of what I’ve got and get some ideas about recipes, especially if I could say, I’ve only got about 15 minutes to make dinner for kids. I guess that doesn’t really fit the Tinder model..
- raldi 2y agoThe killer feature for me is if you could tell it when you throw something in the bottom of the freezer or back of the pantry and it reminds you do do something with it in two months
- ieuanking 2y agoAs someone who loves to cook I really like this idea, I think it would be really helpful if there was some kind of social element -- like seeing how many people cooked a meal, or reviews from others not just from your immediate family circle. I always wanna know what other people think about dishes prior to cooking, NYT cookbook does this really well with their comment section (which I always check before cooking)
- juliushuijnk 2y agoI work for a startup that provides meal plans. This and competing apps let you set requirements (kcal, intolerances, etc), also includes breakfast, etc. These apps are aimed at people that want to eat healthy and are looking for some inspiration. You seem to go with user generated content, so the inspiration part is out, the health part is out, but you focus very much on the problem of forming a choice just for diner. I do think this way your audience is huge, but the added value is a bit limited. So you can decide to slowly move towards those other apps. Or, perhaps move away from it somehow. Maybe it's a generic tool to help you grow and maitain your relationship with your partner by providing tools that deal with each other preferences and choices within that relationship. Both practical and more emotional. But I guess I'm now more brainstorming :). You can also just keep it small and have fun tinkering in a way that works for you. I read a comment: > There are servers needed for the app to work, right? So I guess subscription makes sense? Perhaps you don't really need servers. Keep the data just local on the app. Let people use regular chat for getting to a compromise. That way you could ask a one time fee of $5. It could be a (very) small passive income that doesn't require you much work, no moderation, no security risks. Either way, good luck!
- whiplash451 2y agoGreat points. The health part can be incorporated back into the mix later as their app gets traction, as a subtle bias in the proposed choices and based on what they ate the previous days.
- 47282847 2y agoIf you add machine learning to the mix like Tiktok, those that want healthy food will quickly end up with almost exclusively healthy recipes, and those that strongly prefer junk food will get their junk food. No need to programmatically take any of that into account besides time to swipe.
- ispaceman 2y agoIf it would recommend/show meals from restaurants around that would be great.
- misstercool 2y agoI felt generate recipe repositories is quite a friction, not sure how many user would like to go through this process. But if you have nearby restaurant pictures, swipe right for matches seems a better use case. People don't need to populate the content, and you can let them define a zipcode to narrow down the options.
- ramassnel1 2y agoI never think about this idea, probably next one "Tinder, but to decide what should i buy" kind of things
- hatmanstack 2y agoThis sounded fun and I wanted to try it, so I built a web version. It's open-source built with React Native. The code is here https://github.com/HatmanStack/savorswipe https://github.com/HatmanStack/savorswipe or it's hosted here https://www.savorswipe.fun https://www.savorswipe.fun You can easily add recipes to the swipe list by snapping a photo of ingredients and directions then adding the photo to the app.
- dirkc 2y agoNice app, I really like the idea! Let me know if you need help getting the Android app through the closed testing, happy to install and test!