I've just added flavor lists to All The Flavors, and I'd like your feedback on how to make them more useful. This page shows (relatively) real time updates on what's in stock in a list of flavors. You'll see if you want to make these recipes, Bull City is your choice for today.
https://alltheflavors.com/flavor_lists/1
I'd like to hear a bit about how would you like to use this ... what would make it more useful, now that most of the hard part is done?
Also, if you have an account (free or paid), you can make your own flavor lists at https://alltheflavors.com/my/flavor_lists/new - the feature isn't completely tested yet so it's not in the user menu.
One feature this part needs is the ability to delete a list (like my quick test list that I won't ever use again)
You will be able to delete lists, I removed it until the whole thing is tested better.
Love the work. Great job. Love that you included the usage % with the in stock. Your code: would it be available on github? I would love to see this in Canada for our vendors.
I don't think I'll be releasing it any time soon, but I'd be happy to include other vendors, if you have some to suggest.
I'm limited by the availability of the data, so if any sellers want to help by providing it, they could be included in a very short time.
The vendors I have now are chosen mostly because I could scrape the data from their websites with some accuracy.
I expected as much with the data. I am sure many of the Canadian vendors would be interested in it. Seeing as I am a Canadian and a DIYer, with the CDN dollar so low, I am not sure I should encourage their addition to a US site? All kidding aside, great work and I think there is potential for this code beyond DIY.
Does red mean out of stock? I checked all the flavors at Gremlin, and only two are actually out of stock, but 14 are marked red.
Yeah, i was checking on that now, gremlin uses an odd stocking system. The red indicates they are out of the "standard" size (click FA almond and it shows out of stock unless you change the ml to purchase.)
Gremlin will take some more effort to get right ... or some co-operation from their end, unfortunately.
/u/mrgremlin /u/gremlinjuice Anything you can do on your end to help out with this? This would be an amazing feature!
Currently there is nothing fancy, just BigCommerce inventory system. On THAT news though, we are in the process of moving our web hosting so I am very interested in helping out with this, but right now anything done would need to be re-done in a couple weeks.
If it's something simple, I'm all for helping out and getting whatever is needed in place, but if it is going to be a product by product thing, we should wait so it's not wasted effort. Looks like a great thing! I'm in!!
On another note, is this going to evolve to the point where it will take into account flavors you have marked as "I have this" so you can more easily see what you actually need? Maybe color the dot blue or something.
What's the business model for your site/app?
Which parts will remain free and which will be wrapped up as premium features once they are finished?
I looked on your site and couldn't find the answers to these questions.
Currently, most (possibly all) features are available for limited use (a few recipes, a few batches, a limited number of free flavors) or fully available for free accounts. To use more than the basics, you have to sign up for a 1.99/mo or 14.88/yr subscription.
This isn't carved in stone, and I expect the model to grow as I see what people want from the app.
Does your app/site have its own subreddit or do you make all your business related posts in the DIY subreddit?
I ask because your project is interesting and I'd like to keep an eye on it but I don't think these posts belong in this sub.
Would it ever be possible to add a feature so those that would prefer to purchase from a certain company can request them to carry a flavor you want, but they don't currently offer? Like if you prefer to shop from store X but they only have 9 out of 10 flavors you want, it would be a way to let them know you want them to carry that flavor too. (If you don't ask, they don't know you want it!)
Another feature you saved me from having to code, lol.
Would be nice if you can create "efficient vendor order" lists to print showing who to buy from to minimize extra orders.
Lots of sorting and parsing, tho.
Yup, that was the big coding task i was just starting on and I thought "Why not find out how people would want that to work" before I built it.
lol i was already coding it for my own purposes and it wasn't THAT tough really. just a lot of spinning and building different sets.
I was also working on the "you can ALMOST mix this but you need (1|2) ingredients more" formula, and what worked best for me was to stream through the recipes individually and subtract from the recipe what I have on hand and if there are only 0|1|2 ingredients left, show the recipe, otherwise dump it and move on.
That would be time consuming with thousands of recipes, though.
> i was already coding it for my own purposes and it wasn't THAT tough really. just a lot of spinning and building different sets
The set building isn't really the hard part. The hard part is building it in a way that won't cause endless support email headaches while people try to figure out how it works. :) UI for your own purposes can be rough, because you know what it's supposed to do.