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Hey HN, I built this because I made a super tasty Texas white queso, but then I didn't know where I should keep the recipe. I also realized recipe sites kind of suck. So in the end I made a Github for recipes.

Import any recipe URL and it strips out the life stories and ads. The main thing: you can fork and edit recipes, and it keeps version history so you remember what you actually changed. It's been fun for me because I'm cooking a lot more now because it's easy to keep track of.

I also threw in a scan recipe which uses AI to parse out the text so that it should be easy to import recipes from photos/print/etc.

SvelteKit + Cloudflare Pages + D1. iOS app is live, Android in beta.

Happy to answer any questions.

Thanks for the thoughtful feedback, this is exactly the kind of thing that's useful to hear.

To clarify the mechanics: yes, you have to post before you can see anyone else's. The window is monday through sunday, reveal happens sunday 6pm mountain time, and there's a grace period until monday 6pm if you're late. The idea is that everyone posts "blind" without being influenced by what others said.

On the prompts, that's some fair criticism. I've collected a bunch of prompts that I pick through each week. They fall into 3 categories and it is always in order. Q1: Check-in (something about the week), Q2: Fun (something silly usually... this has weirdly been fun to see peoples answers across the friend spectrum), and Q3: thoughtful (something a little deeper but not too heavy). It sounds like you'd prefer it lean harder into the check-in category and it might go that route eventually. I just didn't want people to get bored of the same questions.

Also it is mandatory to post 1 photo, so it's min 1 photo, max 3 photos. I'm terrible at taking photos and it has forced me into trying to take a few more which is good for documenting my life a little bit. Also the life tab becomes your journal. Only you can see it. Once the week is over no one else can see it but you. That was one idea for monetization way down the line somehow leaning into that, but with it being so cheap I just want others to maybe use it and refine it.

Appreciate you taking the time to write this up. Good luck with the board game designs!

This is funny. I was just looking at egress fees and stumbled across this post. Thanks!

You can get negative day-ahead prices quite frequently due to congestion depending on what lines, generators, transformers, etc are out.

I think this is a cool idea; however, after paying $299 you only get 5 calm and 5 energy strips that are guaranteed for one time use. After that they cost $19.99 for another 5. This would be a very expensive "habit".

So let me get this straight... you take all the good reservations then you either cancel them or sell them. Way to create something that benefits the people of San Francisco.

I have a few associates that would probably invest in this type of company rather quickly. Drop me an email if you want me to pass your name along.

this is awesome anthony! really brings me back... i can remember listening to certain weeks with my buddies. hopefully i'll see you at SX this year.

This is almost identical to gumroad.com; in fact, it is except for the arrogant teenager. I'm not trying to bring in this massive storm of hate, but propelly is going to have to hustle a lot to get their name out there above gumroad.

I must say... I like this.

Well, I'm still glad this got submitted; I wouldn't have gone searching for it. Pretty interesting read.

Wow.

Damn these are pretty awesome... only problem is The Pains of Being Pure at Heart costs $24. A little much!

Okay since you are so afraid the NSA will look at your G+, I hope you are not using GMail to receive your Facebook notifications... they might just READ EVERYTHING!! The horror.

Spotify is for sure being integrated into facebook. Facebook employees have had access for a while.

#7 is a killer feature... that will be awesome

I have to agree with you on a lot of your points (even though I haven't had the chance to use G+). I am actually happy that G+ is missing advertising, corporate pages, and widgets. These things are "social", but I truly believe a social network should be about people and not games and corporations.

However, put with words with friends on there, and I'll be happy!

I thought this was really cool... I wonder what that beer tastes like.

I've been hanging around the site for a long time, but I haven't been here for over two years. Is it really necessary to have that long of an account to stop spam? I believe 1 year should at least be fine.

On Silk Road there are lots of ways to money launder... one of the main ways is that you give someone bitcoins and they give you a "gift" on paypal so that there are no fees.