I’m building a recipe site for foodies
Lots of recipe sites exist out there and plenty of them are great. I just feel as though all of them fall short in some way. Either they have huge annoying ads crowding the interface, are hard to navigate or are impossible to reach on mobile devices.
I’m not saying I’m the man with solutions for all these problems but if I can build a recipe site that caters to one niche of internet-savvy-foodie-technophiles I’ll be happy with that. I’ve got some trustworthy friends who fit the profile and are willing to add their dash of salt to the broth.
The recipe site I’m creating is called Melting Pan.
It’s being released early, even before I have comments, pictures or other fancy features. I’ve set aside some time every week to work and the next couple of features will be comments, cookbooks and eventually pictures.
If you want to help me out simply sign up and add a few of your favorite recipes.
on June 17th, 2009 at 11:37 am
A couple of months ago I was looking for new recipes because I was tired of eating the same things over and over… I found so many sites with recipes, but none of them done exactly right. I thought about doing something like you are going to do, but just for myself - collecting recipes and doing a shuffle feature that would make me a week menu and generating a shopping list.
And then, I just forgot or something.
I hope you keep at it! I will be trying out some recipes and maybe adding one or two later.
on June 17th, 2009 at 11:53 am
Weekly menu with shopping list. What a very good idea! In the mean time the people who’ve joined the site to date are great cooks and I can assure you they’ll be good to inspire you!
Btw once I have rating on the site (or at least, like/dislike rating) and you’ve rated it could be trivial to plug in a recommendation engine in there to match you with recipes that you’d most likely enjoy. It won’t be on the site tomorrow but it’ll be there soon enough ;-)
on June 17th, 2009 at 1:44 pm
Sweet… I love foodie sites… I love food! :-)
on June 17th, 2009 at 8:58 pm
Great idea Gary! I’m using allrecipes at the moment but a simpler site with the features you mentioned will be awesome. I’m sure I’ll have a couple of ideas to throw at you as you built it.
Better be building it in Rails :)