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Show HN: Reciped.io Solving What's for Dinner? (reciped.io)

2 points by soperj ↗ HN
This is my first ShowHN, so go easy :). Public facing side is sort of a wikipedia of recipes, and ingredients, everything in markdown. When logged in, you can add recipes to your recipe book, and then it's drag and drop weekly meal planning. Grocery list gets auto-populated by the meals in your weekly list and sorted by section in the grocery store (produce, meat, dairy, spice aisle, frozen foods, ect). Grocery list itself is built for mobile, so you just swipe the item off the list as you grab it at the store. Recipes are easily forkable, so you can take a recipe and change it to suit your needs.

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soperj
It's my intention to keep the site ad free and tracking free. Currently there's no external javascript, fonts, or analytics. I'm using cloudflare, hosting images on S3 and am using IPInfo to figure out where people are located based on IP (so that I can show local sources of ingredients). If you're logged in, it stores your location once, and doesn't hit IPInfo again. I'm open to changing any of these things if there are concerns. I honestly just used what was convenient and hadn't really thought about them too much until this post. I also don't send emails out for anything and it's only used for password reset functionality. Feel free to use spam address and don't put your real name (good practice everywhere).

Also just wanted to shout out to some of the posts on HN that have helped me along the way.

@Simonw - for this, very helpful, and was how I built my search functionality - https://simonwillison.net/2017/Oct/5/django-postgresql-facet...

@35mm & @raunak - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32316604 - Is the reason I'm posting this ShowHN today, since it got me off my ass.

Thanks, I'll be around if anyone has any questions or comments (or if you find a bug - hopefully not!).

snoopy_telex
Thank you for building this. It looks interesting :)

I have two things that I've always wished for in a recipe manager.

1. Using other recipes as an ingredient. If I have a kickass pie dough recipe that I use for multiple dishes, I'd like to just say, one unit of <pie dough recipe>

2. Alternatives collected. If I have a pancake recipe, having alternatives like "With blueberries" and "With chocolate chips" and what not be... related, would be awesome.

soperj
#2 is actually a good point. There's the ability to fork, but I haven't actually saved what it was forked from. Would be pretty easy to add to the recipe page. Something like "forked from", and "forks of". #1 is pretty easy to do, since it's all markdown, just include the link to the pie dough recipe. At some point I think it would be good to do cooking techniques as well; it took me a long time to actually figure out what I was missing with sourdough (drop test to see if the starter was good), so I would sometimes get really great results and sometimes really poor and I couldn't figure out why. Also want to have kind of a pantry list, where items off your grocery list get stored, that way it could warn you if you bought bacon and it's about to go out of date, I hate wasting food.
QuadmasterXLII
I put up my preferred [Oat Smoothie](https://www.reciped.io/recipes/oat-smoothie/) recipe. I like the interface, and hope it takes off!
soperj
Awesome! First smoothie on the site, and you followed the instructions to a tee. Something new to try :) Thanks, there's a few pages that are still a bit janky (i've now realized) like the email confirmation page.

Honest question, how did you even find this post? I've been on HN for nearly a decade, and I've occasionally hit the show tab, I didn't even realize there was an additional "show new" section.

QuadmasterXLII
TBH, I agreed with your assesment of a certain other dubiously valid show HN post, so I decided to put my attention towards yours instead of theirs.
soperj
Well thank you! I appreciate it.
mtotoWamkwe
I've used Reciped.io a few times so far and would recommend it to software developers that are busy and find it overwhelming to google recipes. I collect recipes and do my meal prep after recipes pile up in my recipe book.
soperj
Really, how did you find the site?