Show HN: MealDays – Meal planner for my wife
mealdays.com
mealdays.com
Your project could be useful to others, if you want to push it further my advice would be: find a graphic designer (it's not bad, but it's a bit too much), improve the experience (in did a meal / day is not my usual habits).
Maybe you could monetize by connecting with online grocery shops or suggesting extra items (like wine).
Thanks for sharing!
You can't argue with the size of the target market, at least.
As much as I would hate for this to be the case, in a marketing context it makes absolute sense to go after housewives.
I've always wondered why grocery loyalty programs that track what I buy don't expose to me what I buy. Then I'd have some incentive to help them keep it accurate, and it could be of much benefit to both of us.
Multi-meals per day sounds like the way to go for sure. I always had that in the back of my mind
Great idea for monetizing.
Thanks!
Using this would be great, and we could add our own specific functions if we'd like. And put it on our home server.
It's not sexist at all to say "I'd love to use that with my girlfriend." It might be a bit sexist to say "I wish my girlfriend would use that", maybe. It's at least a little jerky, and possibly a little sexist, to say "shit, is it sexist to say that?"
.leaves-left, .leaves-right { pointer-events: none; }It would be great to have more than 1 meal / day.
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I want to work the other way around. Each week we get sales flyers from our local grocery stores. We look to see what's available, and make our shopping list. Then we try to plan meals based on our list plus items we may already have.
Using this workflow, it would be nice if a menu planning tool could be given a list of ingredients, and then make suggestions for recipes.
This would be a great feature to add.
On a related note, some knowledge of substitutions could be another great feature.
Also, if you plan the meals ahead for all week, grocery shopping can be really efficient.
I would love it if you open source this project, I will definitely develop/use it.
Kudos! great idea and nice execution.
Thanks for your thoughts.
Thanks all
Not all of us are as fortunate as I am to be a brilliant programmer _and_ purveyor of french toast.
As for the 1950s, my grandmother actually couldn't cook a lick, though she could bake, and my grandfather was the gourmet as well as the breadwinner. Before he passed he taught her to make her favorite of his dishes. I suspect as a child in that household, if dad wasn't around and you were hungry, you got a grilled cheese, because they were never really prevalent in my time until after bobo passed. ;)
Heh, french toast was the first thing I cooked for my (now) wife.
Why the downvotes? I wrote "Gives the impression", which is valuable feedback for someone trying to design an attractive product.
[EDIT] To answer icebraining: It's relevant to his marketing. It may also be indicative of his preconceptions of the market. If he's intentionally aiming at traditional women, then great. It will turn others off.
I tried to find the part where OP was turning this into a business and trying to market it to customers. I assumed this was like most other "Show HNs" and was simple something someone created for his wife and decided others might find it interesting or useful.
> Why the downvotes? I wrote "Gives the impression", which is valuable feedback for someone trying to design an attractive product.
Because your post gave the impression that you were misrepresenting what was fairly clear to many others. You are also giving the impression that you know far more than you actually do. You are finally giving the impression that Show HN is not the place for this. Frankly, all your comments give the impression of someone who isn't honestly contributing to this discussion.
That's probably why you are getting down votes. That, and your lack of HN etiquette.
Not that complicated really. It could have been more clear with something like "A meal planner I made for my wife", but hey.
Show HN is not limited to startups out of Silicon Valley. It's literally just a prefix to say "Hey HN, I want to show you something I built..." In this case, you can add "for my wife..."
Of course, judging by some of the comments, he'd have to add: "because she wanted this thing, and I figured it others might find it interesting" for those that like to infer things that were never said.
He made it for his wife, not for housewives in general (in fact for me there's no implication that it's specifically for housewives or that he does no cooking himself)
This is yet another instance of PC gone mad
"How very dare you, Cuthbert. That is a decidedly sexist way to refer to your spouse."
"My spouse? I do not possess zir, Kate is an independent human being associated with me through our mutual engagement in the social contract of marriage."
"Oh, that is such a monogamist way to put it.."
Though it is worth noting that not many do get annoyed at that phrasing, and overgeneralizing to paint others with it and thinking that has any bearing on their concerns is poor reasoning.
I didn't mean to suggest that you did contest the "my" - I was just agreeing that I've seen that before and that it is obnoxious and reading more into language than is there at any level. My second part was intended to emphasize, however, that that objection only applies where it applies, which as you say is not your comment.
I still think the title is substantively different than your "bros" example; it is referring to one particular person, and I think that matters a lot. As I said elsewhere, "Hackers build things to scratch itches, and then they share them. The fact that it's a particular other person's itch that got the ball rolling is interesting and potentially inspirational."