Reached out to all my most active customers to get feedback from them about planned changes to the API
Jacked up my prices by 566%
I originally chose a price that would appeal to hobbyists, but it seems like there are very few of them, and the people who really need it are startups where their next best option is to spend months of dev time rolling their own.
I’m hoping this will resolve the conflict I’ve been feeling between “I want to support this customer’s use case” and “this customer is spending so little that I can’t justify spending time on it.”
Existing users get grandfathered in with the old price
Now, I can quickly find incorrectly labeled items in my dataset and correct them
Not very powerful searching yet, but enough to get by
Added more aggressive pre-processing so I can throw out irrelevant substrings before I bring machine learning into it
Some ingredients use double asterisks as parentheses ( "1/4 teaspoon sea salt **or more to taste**"), so now we just pretend they’re really parentheses
I tried them out just to experiment with display ads
I felt like they made the site look spammy. I especially disliked that it served ads deliberately designed to trick the user into thinking that they were part of my own site’s functionality (e.g., a button that says “Print Recipe” but it’s actually an ad).
