7courses

Consumer and social

recipe manager

SHOW HN2011

5points
8comments
#977of 1,097 in 2011
Top 90%of 2011 by points

How HN took it

QuietFewer than 5 comments about the project

1 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 4 comments about the project.

Design: 1 for, 0 against

The thread, comment by comment

Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.

positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker

What HN said

What people liked

  • Great, easy to use UI for creating recipes.

    From 1 comment
    • Great UI, I like how easy it is to create recipes. Have you thought about allowing users to import recipes from popular sites? I'm working on a web app similar to this one but…
      silent1mezzo on HN
  • Nice work.

    From 1 comment
    • Nice work. Check: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2225761 This offer is available to you as well. :-) (BTW, silent1 mezzo's [DinnerPlanner.net] promos are already running on…
      sagacity on HN

Objections

  • No way to download all recipes for backup.

    From 1 comment
    • It's neat... but there are probably two things I'd personally want in a recipe storage site that would make me switch from using a drafted e-mail in gmail. 1. A way to download…
      atgm on HN
  • No simple metric and imperial conversion.

    From 1 comment
    • It's neat... but there are probably two things I'd personally want in a recipe storage site that would make me switch from using a drafted e-mail in gmail. 1. A way to download…
      atgm on HN

Requests

  • Import recipes from popular recipe sites.

    From 1 comment
    • Great UI, I like how easy it is to create recipes. Have you thought about allowing users to import recipes from popular sites? I'm working on a web app similar to this one but…
      silent1mezzo on HN
  • Export or download all recipes for backup.

    From 1 comment
    • It's neat... but there are probably two things I'd personally want in a recipe storage site that would make me switch from using a drafted e-mail in gmail. 1. A way to download…
      atgm on HN
  • Built-in metric to imperial conversion.

    From 1 comment
    • It's neat... but there are probably two things I'd personally want in a recipe storage site that would make me switch from using a drafted e-mail in gmail. 1. A way to download…
      atgm on HN

Alternatives named

  • DinnerPlanner.net

    From 1 comment
    • Nice work. Check: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2225761 This offer is available to you as well. :-) (BTW, silent1 mezzo's [DinnerPlanner.net] promos are already running on…
      sagacity on HN
  • Drafted email in Gmail for recipes

    From 1 comment
    • It's neat... but there are probably two things I'd personally want in a recipe storage site that would make me switch from using a drafted e-mail in gmail. 1. A way to download…
      atgm on HN

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