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Re:Launch HN: Kitchenful (YC S21) – Weekly recipes with inte... by cschiller on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @12:22PM (#29394687)
True, the picking quality is a big factor for the experience. Especially when it’s about shopping for ingredients for a meal. We try to improve this by placing the order on behalf of the customer, so we can optimize the product selection for the cooking experience and have the option to guide the pickers with comments/chat towards the most appropriate products or suitable substitutes if something is out of stock.

Besides that we are considering to give the user an option to simply export the optimized shopping list, so it can be used for offline shopping. We got this a few times as a feature request from users who like to shop the ingredients themselves, but still like a service which provides them with personalized suggestions each week and generates a combined shopping list.

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Re:Launch HN: Kitchenful (YC S21) – Weekly recipes with inte... by spiderice on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @03:00PM (#29396739)
> we are considering to give the user an option to simply export the optimized shopping list, so it can be used for offline shopping

The fact that this isn't included already is a bit of a red flag for me. It's a meal planning service that won't even give me the list of ingredients if I want to buy them myself?

Besides that, it does look interesting. I may sign up for a free trial after showing it to my wife and seeing if she'd find good utility in it. We've done grocery delivery for about a year, but we're on the verge of stopping. So having an exportable list of ingredients is obviously a must before I get too attached to your service.

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Re:Launch HN: Kitchenful (YC S21) – Weekly recipes with inte... by hans863 on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @02:47PM (#29396573)
Yes, do this and I’ll sign up. I live in Berlin and live next door to an edeka. I’m happy to do the shopping myself for fresh food every day after work. All I need is a shopping list in my phone that I can pull up from my phone when I head downstairs to buy food.
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