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I launched almost exactly a year ago, as a sort of weekend project http:\u002F\u002Fnews.ycombinator.com\u002Fitem?id=2087598 I've sort of…",{"value":69,"source":48,"evidence":70},"Maker used it personally and wanted fixes to small bugs, so recoded and relaunched",[71],{"id":66,"by":11,"text":67},[73,77,81],{"value":74,"source":48,"evidence":75},"JavaScript",[76],{"id":66,"by":11,"text":67},{"value":78,"source":48,"evidence":79},"Node.js backend",[80],{"id":66,"by":11,"text":67},{"value":82,"source":48,"evidence":83},"jQuery UI",[84],{"id":85,"by":11,"text":86},"3530825","It's handwritten code on top of jquery UI. There are a bunch of form elements (text inputs) that have been styled, and you can drag and drop them to rearrange.","unknown","launched",{"praise":90,"objections":112,"requests":157,"questions":180,"alternatives":196},[91,107],{"value":92,"source":93,"evidence":94},"Clean, good-looking UI","commenter",[95,99,103],{"id":96,"by":97,"text":98},"3530036","dreadsword","Very good looking site! Does it function as a locker for recipes from other sites (allrecipes, etc?), or do you need to manually input everything? I agree with alexchamberlain -…",{"id":100,"by":101,"text":102},"3530608","perssontm","You should really offer an xml or similar export as well. If you're confident about your service, users will stay. But asking user to pay to enter data in, without a convenient…",{"id":104,"by":105,"text":106},"3530282","miles_matthias","Great mobile version and it looks great added to my iPhone home screen. I was about to sign up but then I saw it was $10\u002Fmo. Sorry, I'll stick to using Evernote for my recipes.",{"value":108,"source":93,"evidence":109},"Good mobile web app",[110,111],{"id":104,"by":105,"text":106},{"id":51,"by":11,"text":52},[113,133,149],{"value":114,"source":93,"evidence":115},"$10\u002Fmonth price is too high",[116,117,121,125,129],{"id":58,"by":59,"text":60},{"id":118,"by":119,"text":120},"3530534","tjic","I spend several hours in the kitchen most nights, making my own asian dumplings, ravioli, bread, vinegar, etc. I dehydrate food, have 100+ spices on hand, and more. I clicked the…",{"id":122,"by":123,"text":124},"3530129","mstefanko","I don't think this is near ready for $10\u002Fmonth subscriptions. I agree with adityakothadiya with having some sort of freemium approach. Walking through how I took this at first, I…",{"id":126,"by":127,"text":128},"3530055","adityakothadiya","I'm not sure charging $10\u002Fmonth is the right way of monetizing this service. It's useful, but you have to think is it valuable and critical enough to pay $10\u002Fmonth? For…",{"id":130,"by":131,"text":132},"3530307","snowcandy","I'm not even sure if I would pay $10\u002Fyear, let along $10\u002Fmonth.",{"value":134,"source":93,"evidence":135},"Free alternatives like onetsp and Evernote already exist",[136,140,141,145],{"id":137,"by":138,"text":139},"3530065","Roedou","I applaud you for tackling this niche, but $120\u002Fyear seems a high price. For example: this is the same price as a 50Gb plan on Dropbox. There are some features that could make…",{"id":122,"by":123,"text":124},{"id":142,"by":143,"text":144},"3530066","eurleif","How is this better than just storing recipes in Evernote? (One thing I thought it might do is automatically scale recipes up or down, but it looks like it doesn't do that.)",{"id":146,"by":147,"text":148},"3530138","bhousel","Exactly my thoughts.. 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