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MeltingFood Releases — No Comments
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May 09

MeltingFood – Arborvitae Release

We’re up to the fourth minor release of MeltingFood (and the second in a week if you’re keeping count). It’s all part of the more rapid 1-2 week release schedule – or 4 days in this case.

We apologise that the last release was substantially broken in Internet Explorer (now fixed).

Highlights

  • Recipes can now be seen by everyone (no sign-up required).
  • The recipe layout has been re-jigged to fit things in a little more snugly (hopefully less scrolling needed when your hands are covered in dinner).
  • For Internet Explorer, the broken javascript is fixed and buttons should look a little prettier too.
  • Opt out of email has been added – so we don’t disturb anyone.
  • The recipe list and noise pages are slightly faster (cleaned-up some inefficient code).

There are also a couple of other tweaks, like using your whole name on your recipes – just to make sure people know who to thank.

Progress

We’ve got about 10 current users (accessed in the last month)! Yes that includes us, so back to 8 really ;)

Add a comment here or contact us on meltingfood to join or provide any feedback.

MeltingFood Releases — No Comments
20
May 09

MeltingFood – Apricot Release

Just finished off the third minor release of MeltingFood, the recipe / food sharing website for the new millennium (the new millennium line is still good ’til the half way point – 491 years to go, then we switch from ‘new’ to ‘next’).

Highlights

  • When searching for your friends, auto-complete drops down to help you.
  • See friends of your friends (if your friends have any friends you can now see a list of those friends – clear?).
  • More ajax-y responses (for the non-geek, when you delete your recipes, add friends or reject friends, you won’t have to wait for the page to reload).
  • Slightly smaller pages (for the geeks, javascript framework change from Prototype to jQuery – more conducive to removing in-line js and forms).
  • Google Analytics – so we get some idea of how people are coming to / using the site.
  • Rough business plan.

There’s also a bunch of other minor bug fixes and improvements.

Progress

We’ve got about 8 current users (accessed in the last month)! And about 45 total users referred. This is without even resorting to nagging everyone we know (we’re keeping half in reserve ;p). Based on the business plan, this means we’re at 0.008% of the target (100k unique people per month :)).

But keep your eyes open in the next month… we’re eating our words and going public!

Software Development — 3 Comments
29
Jan 09

Taking Baby Steps

We have an announcement to make… What? No, stop that. It’s not a baby. We are ‘releasing’ the private beta of our website, MeltingFood.

Taking advice from Pierre Francois, the elevator pitch for our website is, “it’s like Facebook, but for food” (just the trusted network part of Facebook – not everything like, ahem, stalking, that comes with social networking sites). But no, this post is not an invitation to join the site – it’s almost the opposite.

Although we do have dreams of extending our 2-person alpha user-base, we’ve made a decision to limit the number of new users to a couple per week starting with whomever happens to be visiting. But if people want to join your site, why restrict them?

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