Re:Launch HN: Kitchenful (YC S21) – Weekly recipes with inte...
by cschiller on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @10:37AM
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This sounds like a great hack!
Personally we faced a kind of cold start problem with such a diary. So what we’re trying now with Kitchenful is to recommend new recipes that are similar to a few favorite dishes of our users, which we ask about in the onboarding process.
We like the idea of a “Future” list and are already thinking about a bookmarking / recipe import feature. How do you save future ideas in your app? (urls?)
Re:Launch HN: Kitchenful (YC S21) – Weekly recipes with inte...
by chris_st on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @01:23PM
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It's a database-backed app, so it's just a marker in the database.
I understand the cold-start thing about the "diary" feature, but I think it'd be nice to have a list you could look back on of everything you've made, with notes on how you liked it, what you'd change, etc. That's been a big win for me.
I had the "What do I make for dinner?" conundrum too, and wound up making my own web app to address that. The main thing for me was that I couldn't think of any recipes, other than ones I'd already made very recently.
So mine is kind of a diary, in that I record whatever we make today, and then I can see what we've made over the last couple of years, and get inspiration that way. It also has a "Future" list, where I can add things I want to make in the future.