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Hey Guys, I'm the creator of Forking Recipes, I'll be happy to answer any questions you have and thanks for taking a look!
by dpick 14y ago
Hey Guys,
I'm the creator of Forking Recipes, I'll be happy to answer any questions you have and thanks for taking a look!
- dbaupp 14y agoI really like this! Hopefully it gains momentum because it'd be really neat to have [a tool that can be used as] a crowd-sourced recipe-optimiser. On a different note, I'm on a slow internet connection and it's very noticeable that the page is huge and not optimised for bandwidth (some thumbnailing and gzip-ing would be good to add at some point, to make the site as snappy as possible! :) ). https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights#url=http_3A_2F_2Fwww.forkingrecipes.com_2Fbrowse_23guider_3Dfirst&mobile=false https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights#url=h...
- dpick 14y agoThanks for the feedback! I'm actually working on making the main page use thumbnails right now.
- calinet6 14y agoYou got it from badstartupideas, didn't you? :)
- dpick 14y agoHaha actually I didn't, I started working on this a couple of weeks ago in my free time.
- ntsh 14y agoGreat job. Maybe you could also use Foodspotting api to get awesome images of food.
- pbjorklund 14y agoI would use it if you built in conversions for us that think in deciliters and not spoons or lb. Ie a dropdown on the profile settings page.
- guptaneil 14y agoI agree with the other commenters: great idea, but needs a designer. By the way, are you based in Chicago? I met somebody at the Chicago HN meetup last year who was talking about building this exact idea, and I loved the idea back then too. Are you that person by chance?
- dpick 14y agoI am actually in Chicago, but I haven't been to a HN meetup so you're probably thinking of someone else.
- themckman 14y agoTo the GP, that was probably me. Unfortunately, we never got anything off the ground. dpick, I'd be happy to share the ideas we were kicking around when thinking about this if you want to shoot me an email: john [at] nineteeneightd.com.
- mvc 14y agoI just bookmarked a couple of recipes. It would be nice if the default name when saving as a favorite included the name of the recipe rather than the name of the site (particularly for those who want to bookmark more than one recipe). Think you probably just have to make the "<title>" include the recipe name.
- dpick 14y agoI really should have done that a long time ago. I'll add it now, thanks for the tip.
- mvc 14y agoI just bookmarked a couple of recipes. It would be nice if the default name when saving as a favorite included the name of the recipe rather than the name of the site (particularly for those who want to bookmark more than one recipe). Think you probably just have to make the "<title>" include the recipe name.