Recipe Exchanging App with Total Strangers
Hi!
I was working on my table-sharing app all day today and ended up with a new concept. After all, I would be a bit hesitant to go eating with a group of strangers –– working on an app that I would not use was a big dilemma for me to keep carrying on. I pretend I were living in a world that people would accept my strange concept. I found many aspects of this app resemble to ones of an app, Rando. I loved that app (R.I.P. Rando) and hope the concept of sharing some moment with strangers continues living in my new app.
Summary
An app for sharing simple recipes with total strangers. You send out one simple recipe, and you will receive one of its users, delivered at random.
Audience
Anyone who loves some surprise and food
Stories
You love randomness and ‘unexpectancy’.
You love occasional mix-up in a day.
You smiles at the old photo you find at a flea market.
You are an essentialist – a simple life.
Of course, you love cooking – simple cooking.
Jun 20, 2014 @ 02:34:34
Hey Mimi,
I think that half typed a comment on this before and never submitted, but I apologize if I’m sending you the same thoughts again!
Your original idea was certainly interesting, but if you’d rather explore this one, that’s totally fine. If you ever do want to return to the other idea, use your concerns as things to work through. How can you make the user trust the system and feel safe?
For you new idea, it almost sounds like an old style recipe chain letter. I remember getting obsessed with chain letters in general. The one for one trade is fun and something I could see people getting excited about.
On 1.1, “next” and “done” seem like different types of actions, but you’ve got them lined up and as the exact same type of button. It’d be worth differentiating them. “Next” creates another step in the recipe correct? 60 words is also a strange limit. Maybe use 240 characters, since people are used to that limitation? Also make sure that whatever limit you set actually fits in 1.1/2.2 when the recipe steps are displayed.
On 1.2, I’m thinking the ‘send’ icon should be up in the top left, not under the ‘edit’ title bar.
How do I get from 2.1 to 2.2? Does it just happen automatically?
On 2.2, what’s this about being able to share an existing recipe instead of sending my own? That kind of seems like cheating.
How do I get to 4.0? How exactly would something trend if it’s just 1:1 sharing and receiving? I wonder if it’d be more interesting to see your shared recipes and approximately where they ended up?
Jun 21, 2014 @ 02:52:13
Thanks you for your thoughts! I will try to update as much as I can.
By the way, I am not familiar with old style chain letter, but I love love love that idea of old style recipe chain letter. I am definitely going to mail out one recipe to a random addresses soon!