recipe based tech projects: database structure, basic troubles to be ready for
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2 min readDec 23, 2017
At this post, I tell a bit about my project. This articles connected.
Where similar database structure can be used
- recipe based websites(allrecipes.com)
- food loggers(ex: Food Diary app + shopping lists like GroceriStar)
- dietary management(doctors) / Weight loss(fitness)
- restaurants data, cafe, etc (menus + ingredients management)
- order delivery
- fitness projects (Fitbit tracks your water and know how many calories did you burn)
- Online shops(fresh markets, meat, farmers food)
- Alcohol/Cocktails/Beers beverage recipes
- Family budget planners
- Maybe in POS systems
Basic troubles, that you’ll face when you create recipe website (non-technical)
- data entering
- photo/video content creation and checking their quality
- chat with users, resolving emergencies
- making universal meals with ingredients without any restrictions(allergic, seasoned food)
- working discipline, discipline at other topics(marketing for example)
- development team management
- Business management(bills, refunds, different business routine)
- social media stuff: posting, profile creation, articles creation, art side, etc.
- Out of money and cannot keep going forward
- Make product without proper documentation
- Create an agile team & process
- Work with content editors, advertising, afiliates
Tech-related troubles
- Database structure
- payment systems setup
- notifications system
- Order system, working with funds and with refunding — automatically
- Lifecycle emails
- Make project extendible, without big pain
- Support, faq section, interactions with humans
- Search
- Localization
- Switch, upgrade plan
- data import
- SEO: titles, URLs, schema.org
- Security
- newsletters e.g. MailChimp setup
- follow up emails -> reducing churn rate
Note: HTTPs must be configured in order to take save payments
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