2010 Plummelo
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Connecting the World of Cooking with Plummelo
Product demo and Q&A by Nicholas Silva - Technical Co-Founder of Plummelo
Plummelo is a website where users can collect recipes from other sites (Epicurious, AllRecipes, etc), save them to Plummelo, and create a unified shopping list. Plummelo aims to connect all parts of the cooking process, from deciding what to cook to shopping for groceries to the actual cooking process in the kitchen. Plummelo is a consumer-oriented tool that wants to open up the recipe space and break down the walls between recipe sources.
The Application
The Technology
- Ruby on Rails
- jQuery
- MySQL
To save recipes from other websites, users install a browser button (i.e. drag a bookmarklet to their toolbar) that scrapes the ingredient data and sends it to Plummelo.
Future Plans
- Partnerships with source recipe websites
- Social networking - being able to follow users you like
- Meal planning (was in Alpha but has been removed in Beta)
- Advanced shopping list features
- iPhone / iPad / mobile apps
Topics Discussed / Suggestions
(other items not listed in future plans)
- Copyright issues (answer: instructions are copyrightable, ingredients are not)
- Allergies - is it easy to keep track of restricted-diet recipes like nut or shellfish allergies?
- Recording what you had eaten in the past (primarily for allergy tracking purposes)
- Adopting or creating a microformat for recipes to be more easily transferred from one site to another
- Merging two ingredients in the shopping list
- Substituting one ingredient in the shopping list for another (i.e. the recipe calls for Yukon potatoes but you want Idaho)
- Substituting ingredients in the recipe for other reasons (applesauce for butter, for example)
- Instructional recipe courses (series of recipes with additional content to help you learn a cooking skill)
- Seeing "where" a recipe came from - is this from a famous chef? What's the back story?
- What about print cookbooks?
