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Consumer and social
recipe manager
SHOW HN2012
47points
47comments
#497of 1,677 in 2012
Top 30%of 2012 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
2 positive, 6 neutral or asking, 7 mixed, 14 critical, out of 29 comments about the project. Thread score -0.38.
Pricing: 1 for, 11 againstIdea: 0 for, 3 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Clean, good-looking UI
From 3 comments
Very good looking site! Does it function as a locker for recipes from other sites (allrecipes, etc?), or do you need to manually input everything? I agree with alexchamberlain -…
dreadsword on HNYou should really offer an xml or similar export as well. If you're confident about your service, users will stay. But asking user to pay to enter data in, without a convenient…
perssontm on HNGreat mobile version and it looks great added to my iPhone home screen. I was about to sign up but then I saw it was $10/mo. Sorry, I'll stick to using Evernote for my recipes.
miles_matthias on HN
Good mobile web app
From 2 comments
Great mobile version and it looks great added to my iPhone home screen. I was about to sign up but then I saw it was $10/mo. Sorry, I'll stick to using Evernote for my recipes.
miles_matthias on HNThe important thing that differentiates this is that it is solely a replacement for a recipe box or other strategy for storing recipes. Most other recipe managers are tacking…
templaedhel on HN
Objections
$10/month price is too high
From 5 comments
Sorry to be blunt but $10/month is totally unworkable. Who is your target audience? It's house-spouses. If both spouses work (like I used to) they would more generally go out to…
steve8918 on HNI spend several hours in the kitchen most nights, making my own asian dumplings, ravioli, bread, vinegar, etc. I dehydrate food, have 100+ spices on hand, and more. I clicked the…
tjic on HNI don't think this is near ready for $10/month subscriptions. I agree with adityakothadiya with having some sort of freemium approach. Walking through how I took this at first, I…
mstefanko on HNI'm not sure charging $10/month is the right way of monetizing this service. It's useful, but you have to think is it valuable and critical enough to pay $10/month? For…
adityakothadiya on HNI'm not even sure if I would pay $10/year, let along $10/month.
snowcandy on HN
Free alternatives like onetsp and Evernote already exist
From 4 comments
I applaud you for tackling this niche, but $120/year seems a high price. For example: this is the same price as a 50Gb plan on Dropbox. There are some features that could make…
Roedou on HNI don't think this is near ready for $10/month subscriptions. I agree with adityakothadiya with having some sort of freemium approach. Walking through how I took this at first, I…
mstefanko on HNHow is this better than just storing recipes in Evernote? (One thing I thought it might do is automatically scale recipes up or down, but it looks like it doesn't do that.)
eurleif on HNExactly my thoughts.. My wife and I are moving all our recipes into a shared Evernote premium account, and it's really fast and easy to use, and performs decent OCR on whatever…
bhousel on HN
No way to import recipes from other sites
From 2 comments
Love the UI. What I would really love though is a site in which I can give a URL to a recipe I like, and it parses everything for me into a common format. Having to manually…
vailripper on HNVery good looking site! Does it function as a locker for recipes from other sites (allrecipes, etc?), or do you need to manually input everything? I agree with alexchamberlain -…
dreadsword on HN
Requests
Parse and import recipes from a URL
From 2 comments
Love the UI. What I would really love though is a site in which I can give a URL to a recipe I like, and it parses everything for me into a common format. Having to manually…
vailripper on HNI applaud you for tackling this niche, but $120/year seems a high price. For example: this is the same price as a 50Gb plan on Dropbox. There are some features that could make…
Roedou on HN
Offer a free tier or trial
From 3 comments
This looks nice. You might want to add a time-limited free trial. I wouldn't take the pricing advice on HN too seriously because even if you charged $10 lifetime for something,…
revorad on HNI don't think this is near ready for $10/month subscriptions. I agree with adityakothadiya with having some sort of freemium approach. Walking through how I took this at first, I…
mstefanko on HNI'm not sure charging $10/month is the right way of monetizing this service. It's useful, but you have to think is it valuable and critical enough to pay $10/month? For…
adityakothadiya on HN
Export in XML or similar format
From 2 comments
You should really offer an xml or similar export as well. If you're confident about your service, users will stay. But asking user to pay to enter data in, without a convenient…
perssontm on HNSlightly off topic, but I wish there was an XML format specifically designed for recipes.
lwhi on HN
Questions
What differentiates it from Evernote or other recipe managers
From 2 comments
How is this better than just storing recipes in Evernote? (One thing I thought it might do is automatically scale recipes up or down, but it looks like it doesn't do that.)
eurleif on HNGood job, I am working on a similar tool. There are lots of free great recipe managers on the web. What is the main differentiating factor that makes this worth 10 a month?
d3x on HN
What happens to recipes if subscription stops
From 1 comment
i have no use for this, but if a customer stops paying the monthly fee do they suddenly lose all of their recipes? is there an export function?
there on HN
Alternatives named
onetsp
From 1 comment
I applaud you for tackling this niche, but $120/year seems a high price. For example: this is the same price as a 50Gb plan on Dropbox. There are some features that could make…
Roedou on HN
Evernote
From 1 comment
How is this better than just storing recipes in Evernote? (One thing I thought it might do is automatically scale recipes up or down, but it looks like it doesn't do that.)
eurleif on HN
Pepperplate
From 1 comment
How does your service compare with another service, http://www.pepperplate.com/? My wife and I are trying to settle on a product. We're considering that or just using Evernote,…
gallamine on HN
YumTab
From 1 comment
I like YumTab [http://yumtab.com/] for grabbing & storing recipes from other sites. The importer/parser is quite smart, and while the planner & shopping list manager are pretty…
nathos on HN
Bigoven
From 1 comment
Not to pile on the pricing, but bigoven.com (community, recipe management, etc.) is ad-driven with a Pro membership for $15.99/year. http://www.bigoven.com/pro Also worth…
halostatue on HN