So I had an idea to turn E-Juicemakers website into an App version.
The name.....MixLife
Preface: All the recipes, articles, video creators, flavorwiki notes, etc are all either approved by og content creator or actually their work.
The App Team: Ckemist, Kopel, Concrete River, Jennifer Jarvis, and Clayton from SteamRoom
Price: 1.99 One Time - No Subscriptions. Monthly Charges, or In App Purchases
Sections of App: Recipebook | FlavorWiki | MixEdu | Q&A | Videos | News | Shop
Recipebook: A listing of numerous mixers recipes in a simple text format with flavor percentage and ingredients. As of now there are all working links to ELR recipes. 90% are in and it is being finished up in the next weeks.
The end goal we will be at in next two months is:
Each Recipe offeres ATF Mix links and ELR Adapt links for all the recipes in the recipebook.
The Search Bar in Recipebook - Very Useful Steep Times: Shake and Vape, Medium Steep, Long Steep Mixer Name: Ckemist, Kopel, Sejouced, Jennifer Jarvis, etc. Flavor Type: Sweets, Fruit, Tobacco, etc. Ingredient: Raspbery INW will bring up recipes with ingredient
It doesn't have a calculator and I couldn't dare afford that but once you can click the future "adapt" links and immediately mix it should be a nice user experience.
FlavorWiki
OMG I am so happy Concrete River is part of the team. He is superb as you all know and to have all his notes in one spot is just exciting. So as of now we started with just 25 flavors but we are offering all our viewpoints on the same flavors. This brings out some different mixer styles and thought process.
As we grow this I believe it will be a great experience for the DIY Community to reference quickly. Jennifer Jarvis, Kopel, and Concrete give you such a deep flavor note to work off of.
MixEdu
So in here we have Kopel, Jarvis, and Concrete River getting all deep and flexing their typing skils on deeper diy stuff and whatever they feel like writting articles about.
I added a RSS Read-Only Reddit Tab in here so people can see what is being presented and hopefully head over to the sub.
Q & A - So this is basically going to be all the questions we can vet out that are the "most repeatedly asked questions" and answer some.
Kopel is working on this one mostly.
News - RSS from Ejuicemakers instantly live. So here look for flavor releases, app updates, whatever content helps us mix better basically.
Videos
I can add any youtube video here, so there is alot of flexibility for adding flavoring videos, and flavor chemistry that come across the tube. All kinds of cool diy and flavoring videos in here.
One Shot Shop Then the One Shot Shop is a spot that shows the current flavor shot line Chef's Flavours is selling. We are planning on adding and replacing the line throughout the year so this is a spot to keep track of when and what new one shots from myself and Kopel.
So.... It is ALWAYS A WORK IN PROGRESS. Any ideas or suggestions are welcomed to make it more useful to mixers. Hope you all like it and find it useful in your mixing lives.
I will be submitting it to Apple Store this month with fingers crossed.
It is still a baby so please don't shake it too hard. But any positve additions you see, or if you feel like helping or having some of your writings etc in there let me know a.mccree@gmail.com
Thanks and hope you like it! Atom aka Ckemist Ejuicemakers.com
App Listing in Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.app.p5587EB
You better not be stealing /u/concreteriver!
Otherwise that looks like an awesome deal and a great team of people. Unfortunately I have an iPhone. But I've been meaning to switch back to Android soon. I'll definitely buy into this :)
Not stealing, sharing slightly. The work is pretty tightly focused over there, I'm still on that whatever I feel like flavor review grind around here.
Atom. I love you to death. But I'm always brutally honest. This isn't to be taken personally, just my thoughts. And they're just the thoughts of one person.
Why does it need my GPS, photo data and call data? This to me is a giant red flag. Even if I where to keep the app, these need to go or it's a done deal already.
I'm not seeing a point to it in general. 90% of the information is readily available elsewhere.
The flavor notes are nice, but another purchase for more flavor notes? I don't subscribe to DoD anymore just because I don't see the point.
Why a reddit tab?
The links to chefs feel forced too. Obviously you need to shill your stuff to make money, I just feel that it could be a bit more elegant.
All in all. I don't really see a point. Every bit of information is available elsewhere, aside from proprietary notes. And that information is free.
All that being said, best of luck!
>It doesn't have a calculator and I couldn't dare afford that
What? i imagine a calculator to be one of the easiest things to create... I think it was the first thing I made in python when i gave that a try. So, we'll have to use external calculators. why not just use ELR/ATF in the first place and sidestep the app?
Will you be accepting user generated recipes or is this just a recipe book with some flavor notes?
what makes this worth 2$? what's supposed to draw your average DIY-er in?
on the "one stop shot shop" bit, is this just a glorified storefront? an advertisement for new things you're stocking?
the most useful feature to me is the flavorwiki. (i.e. consolidated notes)
I don't mean to shit on your project.
It is always going to be curated to just the mixing teams recipes, wiki, articles. Guest recipes are a possibility, but really its more like a mobile more useful version of our website that people already use on a daily basis. Those are all good points though.
I think it needs a calculator, too. Of course, I'm a newbie to the DIY stuff, so take my opinion with a large grain of sea salt.
Idea: A button on each recipe page that leads to the calculator. Like, "Make 30 ml of this recipe with 3 mg nic" kind of button. Touch the button and you're taken to the calculator with the ingredients and quantities populated in mls and grams.
A free version with ads would be nice :).
I would probably buy it if I could try it out with ads first. A short free trial would work too.
You can buy it try it and then back in the app store hit refund after testing it a bit. I approve all refunds allways