Rate my startup: coookin.com

Any site around pictures of food gets my vote :) However, the tag line "beautiful food photos" isn't right: the pictures aren't all that pretty.<p>- When you "zoom" into a photo, ie. go to the photo detail page, the actual picture is not much larger than the thumbnail. If this is about photos of food, the photo should be larger.<p>- All the emphasis on "beautiful photos": I think you have the wrong angle here. Amateur food photos are <i>not</i> pretty, making good food photos is one of the hardest things to do, even for professional photographers.<p>-

I think this site will succeed or fail based on the quality of the food images. I would recommend you look at how opensourcefood.com cultivated high quality images from their community. If a low standard is set, I don't think there will be much you can do to make the site valuable.

Very pretty, but doesn't do anything I find useful. And I cook, a lot.<p>What's the long-term vision here?<p>Also: couldn't hate the name more.

Did not sign up for all the reasons listed in this thread -<p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1665498" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1665498</a><p>Nice idea otherwise, but I would move "It's all about photos" to the front page. Otherwise it is very easy to assume that it's a Dribbble for the recipes.

I found a recipe I liked within the first two minutes, precisely because of the photos. However, after that, I realized it just wasn't my kind of site. I like looking for new recipes and the emphasis on photos would be a great thing for me, but there's no way to filter or categorize stuff.

Maybe it's just because I'm hungry, but I really like this site. The only thing I didn't like was the infinite scrolling. There's something psychologically unsatisfying about a page you can never reach the bottom of. I much prefer the steady progress of a "next" button.

Made me think about foodgawker.com and tastespotting.com,imo you should add some sort of categorization. The average user probably will use you site as source of inspiration, so being able to choose with a tag cloud (or better, a more clever mechanism) would be a good plus. What about trying to improve the look of the photos providing a section with photography suggestions(maybe wrote by your best users)?

Looks really cool and very exciting to a foody like me. It would be nice though to have more details about the recipe structured into some of the posts. Some pics, titles, and details barely tell you what the recipe is... Maybe you can create incentives for some of your submitters to add the recipe and get entered into a recipe DB as well. Best recipe can receive major attention... etc.

I clicked on a photo wondering how to make a Joakim Bugge, turns out its someones name and there's no recipe. Maybe the site is not for me?

I'm no match for this Joakim Bugge character who has recently cranked out 4 new dishes!<p>In all seriousness, I would at least provide a way to broadly tag dishes according to ethnic influence/price of ingredients/or time to prepare.<p>From here, I would personally prefer a slider to browse through the dishes rather than scrolling down a seemingly bottomless page.

Terrible name. Like the idea of photos, but when I click on them I want to see a recipe so I can make it. What about copyright? I see some of the recipes are taken from iphone apps or books. Are you liable if someone posts a recipe straight from a source that is legally protected?

Looks ok for a first effort, but check this site out: www.mycookingdiary.com My wife loves it, it has great, large photos and a cool navigation system.<p>Anyway, I clicked on one of your ads, so at least you will make some money.