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by pachico 1688 days ago
Don't get me wrong, I think yours is definitely a no-bs application, however I think the entire recipe search engines is not working, or at least, not in the way I expect it to work. I wish it was more a holistic solution, mixing calendar, already available ingredients, non available, shopping list, where to get what you're missing, different profiles (I'm vegan, for instance, but I grew up in Italy so I wish I could mix both profiles), search by available time, by difficulty, requirements, and much more. Let's say that how to get the recipe is something that isn't the problem I have.
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I already support time and includes / excludes ingredients, but saved profiles and the other filters are good ideas!
Ideally, I would use it this way (as a narrative):

Calendar: dinner with Anna and John next Friday. I know Anna is vegan and John hates hot spicy food. Go through a possible list of menus (not recipes) for the night, based on food that takes X time to be prepared. Get me a complete list of what I need for y amount of guests (and a cost estimation).

Add what I need to an online grocery store list making sure it arrives the day before at the latest (but not too soon since I want it fresh).

Another use case. I have a profile where I set I'm vegetarian, I don't like soups, blah and blah. I am hungry. I go to the fridge and I make a list of what I have and how much I have.

I now search for recipes with those ingredients that can be done in less than 40 mins.

Or, I'm preparing something that requires different timers: go and set them for me! Tell me that it's now time to put that thing in water if I want to prepare it tomorrow morning, or that I can now don't pay attention to this process during 45 minutes and alert me after that.

As I was saying, the recipe is really the easy part for me :)