HI all, I am a programmer and I am thinking of creating an advanced search engine for beer recipes.
I am always struggling to use my old supplies of malt & hops and the main problem is that I can't find recipes where I can use most of my supplies.
So I was thinking of creating a smart search engine that will substitute some parts of the recipe e.g. if I enter that I have 20g of Colombus hop it would propose recipes that use any of the following hops Magnum, Chinook, Northern Brewer, Warrior, Millenium, Bullion.
Also it could display recipes in the following format
Recipe A - You have 4 out of 5 ingredients
Recipe B - You have 5 out of 8 ingredients
Recipe C - You have 4 out of 7 ingredients
This way I could choose to use most of my supplies (Recipe B) or choose to create a recipe that needs me to order just a single hop or malt.
The whole idea came to my mind when I struggled to use some of my supplies I had in my shelves. I had to waste so many hours reading recipes and finding which recipes will use most of my malts & hops and which ingredients I needed to buy.
I am in the process of calculating the total cost of such software as it will consume many hours of my time and it will need some extra work from designers, require some hosting etc.
So my questions are:
1. What do you think is better, to create a simple search engine you can use to find recipes that suits your supplies or create a complete platform to keep track of your recipes, create new recipes etc?
2. How useful such software would be? Would you use it? Would you pay a yearly fee for using it?
I am always struggling to use my old supplies of malt & hops and the main problem is that I can't find recipes where I can use most of my supplies.
So I was thinking of creating a smart search engine that will substitute some parts of the recipe e.g. if I enter that I have 20g of Colombus hop it would propose recipes that use any of the following hops Magnum, Chinook, Northern Brewer, Warrior, Millenium, Bullion.
Also it could display recipes in the following format
Recipe A - You have 4 out of 5 ingredients
Recipe B - You have 5 out of 8 ingredients
Recipe C - You have 4 out of 7 ingredients
This way I could choose to use most of my supplies (Recipe B) or choose to create a recipe that needs me to order just a single hop or malt.
The whole idea came to my mind when I struggled to use some of my supplies I had in my shelves. I had to waste so many hours reading recipes and finding which recipes will use most of my malts & hops and which ingredients I needed to buy.
I am in the process of calculating the total cost of such software as it will consume many hours of my time and it will need some extra work from designers, require some hosting etc.
So my questions are:
1. What do you think is better, to create a simple search engine you can use to find recipes that suits your supplies or create a complete platform to keep track of your recipes, create new recipes etc?
2. How useful such software would be? Would you use it? Would you pay a yearly fee for using it?