acts_as_ninjas
Team Members
- omgitsads
- JamesCotterill
- MattLaffy
- golov
What
Bartender is a cocktail recipe recommendation site, tell us what spirits and mixers you have in your bar, and we will give you back a cocktail.
At the moment we have 6000+ cocktails, but we plan on getting more soon and possibly opening up to user recipes.
Where
- Entry URL:
- http://bartenderapp.com
How
sphinx
thinking sphinx
Bort
jQuery
jRails
jQuery Star Rating Plugin
jQuery Autocomplete
Purchased a dataset for the drinks
Purchased a few images/icons
Comments
cool!!!
this is so professinal and well design, you guys made here a great site!
As I entered ingredients it was not working so then I slowed down (not a good thing for your users) to actually select the item that then added. If I type them in and put in a comma then it should automatically drop into the list below.
Very nice app. I would add a profile for users so you could keep track of your favorite cocktails and share them with your friends.
What can I say? I like to drink. I’ll be coming back to this site frequently for recipes. Really loved the auto-complete “what’s in my bar” search. Although you’re not breaking new ground here, the upbeat design of the site wins out in my mind.
a thoughtful collection indeed.
You might include some way of rating users in addition to recipies. This would enable users to find drinks that are probably good, rather than just whatever from whoever. Just a thought though. Good job with this. Congrats!
I think the concept is cool but when i initially landed on the site it took me a minute to figure out what to do. I had trouble with the autocomplete, could use come overall ux tweaking. Also I was disappointed that I couldn’t save favorites or search common brand name booze.
Initially I think the header is TOO HUGE. I didn’t quite get what the site was for and I think the introduction is buried too far down the page.
The autocomplete on the input box was annoying and took a minute to figure out. I started typing in everything I had in my cabinet separated by commas, then hit enter. The only thing that showed up was “orange juice”. Confusing.
I figured out after a bit that you needed to explicitly pick stuff from the autocomplete / drop-down, but that seemed like a crutch.
If you tune the interaction for autocomplete / entry and address some design issues I think you might have something good here.
MattLaffy: I respectfully disagree
la_chiky_baby: If you’re not a drinker there is nothing wrong with that ;)
not good for me …
Great site guys, good luck. :0)
Dan, thanks for your comments. The FB application is a good idea.
I bookmarked it! White label this and sell it to bars. Or create a widget for this puppy, I’d put it on my facebook profile.
Love it – can now make something from all those half full bottles!
Great idea, user focused.. ie starts from the user’s ingredient situation and works from that.. I know a number of people who would use this site.
Some display bugs of ‘basketed’ ingredients though
Maybe include a separate bar for mixers as that affects results dramatically?
Auto complete good and includes some obscure drinks I didn’t imagine it would recognise.
‘My bar’ idea is good..
Great work
Awesome
great site – could be a real seller for clubs etc for people who want something different on a night out
I am actually using this on the weekend. A true useful app!
Brilliant site, nice layout and feel. I’ll definately be using this a lot.
troberts: Thanks for your comment, we will come up with a way of making it more obvious that the autocomplete functionality exists for our users.
Cool idea for a site. The auto-complete for the ingredients wasn’t immediately obvious. I typed in a word and pressed enter before I realized that it would auto-complete.
Thanks for all the comments, you can also access the site from http://bartenderapp.com
The design is not perfect, but it’s good. The UX is spot on, it just needs to be prettier.
I like the idea and I think it has the perfect amount of features. I don’t think I could ask for anything more.
Great job.
clr: Yes we had some odd background issues in some browsers, I’m guessing mojombo was using Opera and so wasn’t aware of this. With regards to the user-specific functions we planned to add a ‘my bar’ section where you can favourite your drinks and create new ones etc, as well as possibly adding ‘drinking buddies’ from the site, but with the time restrictions imposed on the weekend we will now be adding this in the next phase.
This site makes me thirsty. I love the idea, and the implementation seems to be spot-on. There are a few graphical oddities, like the background image and the search icon running over, but it’s a pretty slick site. I could see an application like this getting a lot of traffic. Not having to sign in is great, especially while judging, but I could also see a use for user-specific functions. Great job!
I’m very pleasantly surprised by this app. I went into it thinking “Oh geez, not another drink recipe app,” but as soon as I started entering ingredients I had laying around the house, I knew things would be different this time. The auto-completion is perfect and saves me a lot of mental anguish worrying about whether I’m entering my ingredients in a way that they will be recognized. Despite my eccentric collection of booze and mixers, the app still found a dozen or so drinks I could make. The recipe page is nicely laid out, and I especially like that the proper glass type is listed. That’s just one of the nice touches I found throughout the app. The design is spot-on; I didn’t see any pages that looked incomplete or sloppy. The only thing I missed was a way to add comments to a recipe (in addition to the rating). It would be nice if people could comment on the drinks and any modifications they made to the given recipe that they found improved the drink. Overall, a very finished app with a discernible utility and good focus and execution.