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Tumblr for cooks, an alternative to food blogging.
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Kevin William David
RecipeWriter — Author recipes. Simple and Beautiful.
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Cherian Thomas
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Hi all, We built this with a lot of help and feedback from the Hacker News community. We wanted to take a mundane task, a procrastinating experience and make it addictive. Here’s a recipe written with writer http://www.cucumbertown.com/chho... The editor stays simple but gives you the ability to achieve some beautiful without much effort. All with auto-complete, step by step images etc. We designed ways to split up ingredients, portions, units – a little bit like the way Microsoft word does with grammar. This is a beautiful start for us. We hope you like it as much as we did building it. A long way to nirvana…
Guy Gal
I'm shocked that no good recipe organization and authoring platform has existed before this.
Chris Messina
Top Hunter
@guygal what about @yummly or Cookpad (https://cookpad.com/en)?
Guy Gal
@chrismessina the operative word I used was good ;)
Chris Messina
Top Hunter
@guygal touché! 😊
Varun Khona
We have been a big fan of the folks @cucumbertown for a while. The team is kickass. For an evergreen procastinator like me who is also a sucker for elegant interfaces, this is finger-licking good :)
Tori Bunte
Interface looks a lot like Pinterest (from what I can tell from the video). Wish there were a bit more on the landing page. Nice product - haven't really found anything to organize my recipes. Right now they're sitting in Evernote.
Cherian Thomas
Maker
@stttories Tori, Think about CT as Tumblr for cooks. The Pinterest like interface is the feed. It’s all about profiles. People like http://marekthi.cucumbertown.com/ http://jane.cucumbertown.com/ and this is me http://cherian.cucumbertown.com/ So if you want to store your recipes somewhere, yes this is the perfect place.
Chris Messina
Top Hunter
Seems like there's some clear inspiration from Medium in your editor, no?
Andreas Pizsa
Congratulations @cherianthomas , this is a great, clean interface, very smooth, very fluid and responsive. The editor is super lightweight with many powerful features neatly hidden until needed; the entire UX is really thought out and polished. Great team, very obviously, congrats! :) Here's my entry :) http://www.cucumbertown.com/wien... PS would love a low/no-carb diet style!
Cherian Thomas
Maker
@andreaspizsa Thanks a lot for the compliments. CT is all about people and not diets. Think about it as disrupting food blogging. For e.g. http://raymondsfood.cucumbertown... does slow carb But Pandara http://pandara.cucumbertown.com/ is an American expat living in Thailand trying out the life there.
Troy Osinoff
I love this! Straight forward and simple recipe submissions. Well done!