Show HN: My summer project: Sip on Summer for iPad

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sip-on-summer/id453643481

by alexobenauer • 15 years ago

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Made this over the course of the summer (at school - VA Tech). Used a Nikon 3100 DSLR for the pretty pictures, used native frameworks for the iPad app itself.

Fun project, beautiful result, first time around the block with iPad development.

Would love to hear any and all feedback from Hacker News!

bartmcpherson• 15 years ago

The preview pictures look very nice. From a resources perspective where did you get the recipes?

I've considered making apps that require reference material like a recipe. The problem I've seen is taking the material and charging without having created the information. I imagine a lot of stuff is general public knowledge, but how do you keep safe from someone claiming you stole their recipe?

alexobenauer2• 15 years ago

Thanks for the feedback!

Yeah, I always toyed with the 'reference material' app idea, this was my actual stab at it. A few of the recipes are home-made favorites. A few are made by companies to perpetuate their own products so when people spread them further it actually helps them (this is Rum Swizzle & Dark 'n' Stormy for Gosling's). Finally, the others we looked at a few well-known recipes, maybe tweaked a thing or two where we thought it should be different, and left one of them entirely as we found it (from Bacardi, I believe).

I think with recipes it's not 'bad' when you have a specific recipe because of the nature of the things, where with other reference material, selling it in your app is a form of stealing. The only drinks in here that are entirely the same are well known.

There's definitely no keeping safe from someone claiming we stole a recipe, but if someone did, we could pull it, or show them how 25 other people could make the same claim, or simply claim that what we made isn't a recipe directory but it's a fully interactive app with descriptions and collections and tips that it's not the recipes we're selling.

Sorry for the novel, train of thought. As you can tell, I haven't been asked that yet. Hopefully the next time this answer will be much more concise!

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