Showing posts with label ideas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ideas. Show all posts

Saturday, August 09, 2025

Things to go vibe code: Food Crawl Agent

Feature Idea: “Cafe Crawl” Web App with Reminders

A simple web app that pulls cafe, brunch spot, and restaurant info from OpenStreetMap, then turns it into a running list of places to try. The app keeps the list fresh, sends you “hey, try this place!” reminders, and lets you track whether a spot is worth going back to or not.

Saturday morning: You get a ping – Your cafe pick this week: The Green Bean Cafe – 2km away.”You head there, try it out, and tap “Loved it” when you get home. Next week, the app suggests somewhere new.


I officially regret throwing that idea into ChatGPT to flesh out.

Recipes; the Gantt chart

Mealie's current 'cook mode' leaves a lot of room for improvement - they removed Timers just because it wouldn't work for some devices, and they can't be stuffed reviewing UX improvements to it.



My partner's idea for a overhauling this - fix recipes by plugging them into a Gantt chart structure, so dependencies are mapped between steps.
Add timing.
Have a big iPad or tablet of various cooking timers that just run, reading out steps.
To configure, similar UX to music programming software.


Recipe steps are often badly written. Use mealie to extract JSON-LD. Use AI to edit recipe, split any steps where multiple activities are occuring. Use AI to then attempt to do dependencies, so there's a lot less labor.
Have a repository, where timing is unknown, of techniques and steps with the average times. Or Cook Steak for 7 minutes, or Cook roast at 45 minutes per 500g at 220c. Add confindence scale to steps for your env.

Add references for common questions like "what should my eggs look like?"
Video timestamps from YouTube based on transcript?

Wednesday, January 09, 2008

Multiple mouse cursor interfaces

I freaked out a little bit after my hand started twinging this afternoon (ARGH, THE DREADED CARPAL TUNNEL WILL GET ME), and tried to swap my mouse pointer to the left hand.

Everything just became... hard. I was all mixed up, and couldn't work out which mouse buttons did what.

So, I got to thinking - where are the dual mouse interfaces? Two mouse pointers, one for each hand.
Apart from Surface, I don't know of a single one. Surely there must be something out there...

Anyone?