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Show HN: MealDays – Meal planner for my wife
- eevilspock 12y agoWhat's the relevance of "for my wife"? It gives the impression that you're stuck in the 1950's.
- JoeAltmaier 12y agoOr maybe their wife cooks and they don't?
- justizin 12y agoPerhaps, without being entirely stuck in the 1950s, OP experienced wife struggling to find a favorite recipe and thought, "I'm not much for makin' french toast, but I sure can organize information!" Not all of us are as fortunate as I am to be a brilliant programmer _and_ purveyor of french toast. As for the 1950s, my grandmother actually couldn't cook a lick, though she could bake, and my grandfather was the gourmet as well as the breadwinner. Before he passed he taught her to make her favorite of his dishes. I suspect as a child in that household, if dad wasn't around and you were hungry, you got a grilled cheese, because they were never really prevalent in my time until after bobo passed. ;)
- dllthomas 12y ago"Not all of us are as fortunate as I am to be a brilliant programmer _and_ purveyor of french toast." Heh, french toast was the first thing I cooked for my (now) wife.
- dethstar 12y agoI'm guessing it is something they built for their wife.
- eevilspock 12y agoIt has a login and extensive help info, so is clearly targeting far more than his wife. Why the downvotes? I wrote "Gives the impression", which is valuable feedback for someone trying to design an attractive product. [EDIT] To answer icebraining: It's relevant to his marketing. It may also be indicative of his preconceptions of the market. If he's intentionally aiming at traditional women, then great. It will turn others off.
- icebraining 12y agoHow is that relevant feedback for the site if it doesn't appear in it at all?
- obvious_throw 12y agoIt's the presumption that traditional household structures are archaic. Plenty of modern households operate on the basis of traditional role separation, and it has nothing to do with oppression.
- jasonlotito 12y ago> It has a login and extensive help info, so is clearly targeting far more than his wife. I tried to find the part where OP was turning this into a business and trying to market it to customers. I assumed this was like most other "Show HNs" and was simple something someone created for his wife and decided others might find it interesting or useful. > Why the downvotes? I wrote "Gives the impression", which is valuable feedback for someone trying to design an attractive product. Because your post gave the impression that you were misrepresenting what was fairly clear to many others. You are also giving the impression that you know far more than you actually do. You are finally giving the impression that Show HN is not the place for this. Frankly, all your comments give the impression of someone who isn't honestly contributing to this discussion. That's probably why you are getting down votes. That, and your lack of HN etiquette.
- kubiiii 12y agoOr maybe op's wife order meals and op cooks.
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- icebraining 12y agoWho said OP's a dude?
- dangerlibrary 12y ago@jampoole is Jim Poole, though your point that it was likely an unchecked assumption is well taken.
- erikb 12y agoJim Poole like in Baseball (google result, still no idea who it is, but looks male)? You talk about this guy like everybody is supposed to know who that is. I know so many people with a name from the other gender (most prominent in my head a girl named David), that "Jim" is not a response to the question if the author is male or female to me.
- nedwin 12y agojampoole is the original poster of the thread you're commenting on.
- erikb 12y agoAnd from the text "jampoole" you can recognize that the person is called "Jim Poole"?
- dangerlibrary 12y agoI agree that it doesn't collapse the distribution, but from a Bayesian perspective it should probably shift the likelihood towards male. Certainly enough that using a slashy pronoun (he/she, etc.) isn't strictly necessary for a HN comment.
- jampoole 12y agoIt's literally for my wife. All her idea:) I promised I would build it to her spec.
- eevilspock 12y agoFair enough. But then why bother with a Show HN? Why bother with a login and all the how-to info?
- hxw 12y agoWhy not?
- jonknee 12y agoIf I had to guess it went something like the OP's wife wanted a tool like this, the OP built the tool and made it to her needs but also public so that others could also have the same benefit. He's a HN user hence the Show HN and since it was an itch he scratched for his wife he put that in the title. Not that complicated really. It could have been more clear with something like "A meal planner I made for my wife", but hey.
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- paulhauggis 12y agoWhen I saw this, I get a feeling of white knight mixed with over-sensitive.
- hockeybias 12y agoYea people, this is 2014 - should have said 'for my beeotch'...
- billwilliams 12y agoFun little idea. Tuesday all I eat is hot sauce. Monday I only drink lemonade. Wednesday I end my fast with the varied loaf.
- ivanche 12y agoLooks very nice, kudos for the implementation. Just one question, am I doing something wrong or you can add just one meal per day?
- BaconJuice 12y agoI don't understand. Why are you limiting your wife to only one food item that's not even a meal a day?
- jampoole 12y agoIt's what she asked for. She uses this to pick her main dinners for the week and it builds a grocery list for her (work in progress for organizing).
- michaelq 12y agoThe visual documentation is a nice touch (http://www.mealdays.com/howto/ http://www.mealdays.com/howto/) and couldn't have taken too long to create. Just in case my mother-in-law doesn't know what drag and drop means.
- jampoole 12y agoI made this with Jing (http://www.techsmith.com/jing.html http://www.techsmith.com/jing.html) super awesome tool.
- gh0sts 12y agoCool idea. I had a tiny issue where the leaves on the Meal Plan box overlap the corners of Monday and Sunday, meaning you can't drag in these areas. You can sort it out with: .leaves-left, .leaves-right { pointer-events: none; }
- jampoole 12y agoGreat tip thanks. It's added now.
- emehrkay 12y agoIs it possible to have multiple dishes per day? Dinner and a dessert, for example
- belthasar 12y agoI've been using the meal planner that Allrecipes[0] has and I really like it. I'd love to try this too but having multiple meals or even side dishes per day is necessary. [0]http://allrecipes.com/menus/main.aspx?e3=TB_3.0.0_Menu-Planner http://allrecipes.com/menus/main.aspx?e3=TB_3.0.0_Menu-Plann...
- k3liutZu 12y agoThe idea is nice. A designer would be of big help though. It would be great to have more than 1 meal / day.
- boohoofoodoo 12y agoanother vote for multiple recipes per day
- stronglikedan 12y agoAnd multi-recipe meals. As it is, I either get dinner or dessert. Seeing that I have the willpower of a Kennedy, I'd be eating a full tray of brownies for dinner each night.
- wehadfun 12y agoMy wife would love this
- boohoofoodoo 12y agoIs it possible to enter your own recipes to add to the drag and drop recipe list?
- jampoole 12y agoThis is something I'd like to add
- jrock08 12y agoAs good an idea, and decent an implementation. Can we please change the title from this very sexist and heteronormative language?
- shawabawa3 12y ago> Can we please change the title from this very sexist and heteronormative language? He made it for his wife, not for housewives in general (in fact for me there's no implication that it's specifically for housewives or that he does no cooking himself) This is yet another instance of PC gone mad
- jrock08 12y agoI completely disagree that there isn't a general implication that this is for wives of HN users. Another example: "Show HN: SportsRank, Fantasy score prediction I built for my Bros." Is this for just my Bro, or am I making a statement about who I think will use it, specifically Bros. Similarly "my wife" makes an implicit statement that your wife (who obviously cooks) will want to see this.
- hxw 12y agoHow is this sexist if it was made for OP's wife?
- petercooper 12y ago"Why hello Gerald, I'd like to introduce you to my wife, Kate." "How very dare you, Cuthbert. That is a decidedly sexist way to refer to your spouse." "My spouse? I do not possess zir, Kate is an independent human being associated with me through our mutual engagement in the social contract of marriage." "Oh, that is such a monogamist way to put it.."
- dllthomas 12y agoYeah, the disputing of possession bugs me. Certainly it's true that I do not possess my wife, but I also don't possess my brother and he's still my brother and there's nothing weird about that phrasing. Though it is worth noting that not many do get annoyed at that phrasing, and overgeneralizing to paint others with it and thinking that has any bearing on their concerns is poor reasoning.
- frantzmiccoli 12y agoReading the title, I was sure that feminist trolls will be on a hunt. I am not disappointed ;) Your project could be useful to others, if you want to push it further my advice would be: find a graphic designer (it's not bad, but it's a bit too much), improve the experience (in did a meal / day is not my usual habits). Maybe you could monetize by connecting with online grocery shops or suggesting extra items (like wine). Thanks for sharing!
- shawabawa3 12y agoAt least now I know how to phrase it if I ever make something for my partner(s) of non specified gender and sexual orientation with whom I have an equal relationship
- petercooper 12y agoGo with Meal Planner for Everyone! You can't argue with the size of the target market, at least.
- AnkhMorporkian 12y agoThe one downside is that many women are very proud to be housewives. Marketing to everyone in this context despecializes, considering they make up a very considerable margin of the stay-at-home parents and mealmakers worldwide. As much as I would hate for this to be the case, in a marketing context it makes absolute sense to go after housewives.
- dllthomas 12y agoI feel like there's a big difference between "for my wife" versus "for wives". The former makes no assumption about the roles of other people who use it (except, presumably, that they're interested in planning meals).
- dllthomas 12y agoToo late to edit, but I'd like to add that "for your wife" would be as bad as "for wives", outside of a context where you are talking to a specific person and you know they have a wife who would be interested.
- ttrbls 12y agoHow about adding more than 1 dish to the day?
- shabinesh 12y agoReally love the idea, +1 for multiple meals a day.
- speg 12y agoReminds me of http://www.eatthismuch.com http://www.eatthismuch.com, which was also a Show HN IIRC.
- avitzurel 12y agoThis is great. If you have a family and you cook meals every day you know the struggle of just deciding what you want to cook every day. Also, if you plan the meals ahead for all week, grocery shopping can be really efficient. I would love it if you open source this project, I will definitely develop/use it. Kudos! great idea and nice execution.
- jampoole 12y agoI really love open source too and may consider it for the future, who knows. Thanks for your thoughts.
- m_t 12y agoI'm just adding another voice for the "Open Source it!" I'd love to use that with my girlfriend (shit, is it sexist to say that?) as we love to plan our meal in advance but usually fail to do it as much as we could. Using this would be great, and we could add our own specific functions if we'd like. And put it on our home server.
- dllthomas 12y ago"I'd love to use that with my girlfriend (shit, is it sexist to say that?)" It's not sexist at all to say "I'd love to use that with my girlfriend." It might be a bit sexist to say "I wish my girlfriend would use that", maybe. It's at least a little jerky, and possibly a little sexist, to say "shit, is it sexist to say that?"
- BlakePetersen 12y agoUsage limit exceeded? Well there's your first issue.
- mast 12y agoI like the idea of meal planning, but most applications don't work for me. Most meal planners I've come across are similar to this one. You randomly pick recipes and a grocery list gets generated for you. I want to work the other way around. Each week we get sales flyers from our local grocery stores. We look to see what's available, and make our shopping list. Then we try to plan meals based on our list plus items we may already have. Using this workflow, it would be nice if a menu planning tool could be given a list of ingredients, and then make suggestions for recipes.
- dllthomas 12y agoYeah, meal planners need to be integrated with some kind of pantry management.
- jampoole 12y agoActually, there are apps out there that give you meals based on pantry items. My sister in-law used one a couple times. This would be a great feature to add.
- dllthomas 12y agoTo some degree, although I'd really like a more thorough pantry management system - which tracks expiration dates, estimates quantities, &c, and integrates with meal planning and shopping. On a related note, some knowledge of substitutions could be another great feature.
- jampoole 12y agoWow:) looks like my usage limits for calling recipes exceeded for the day! I have very limited calls, otherwise I'd have to pay out a lot per month to increase. Might have to if more people start using it. Thanks all