Plain Old Recipe

Consumer and social

recipe converter

SHOW HN2020

22points
3comments
#1,613of 3,028 in 2020
Top 54%of 2020 by points

How HN took it

QuietFewer than 5 comments about the project

1 positive, 0 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 0 critical, out of 2 comments about the project.

Execution: 1 for, 0 against

The thread, comment by comment

Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.

positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker

What HN said

What people liked

  • Seems like magic; nice work

    From 1 comment
    • this seems like magic, nice work. made this crummy site readable, https://www.hellofresh.com/recipes/crispy-parmesan-chicken-5e25f50779260e7a2945d952
      waynesonfire on HN

Objections

  • Recipe scraping leads to aggregation sites with many near-duplicate recipes

    From 1 comment
    • Recipe scraping is kind of a pet peeve of mine. People figured out how to do that early on and the result was recipe aggregation sites where you get three hundred variations of…
      zxcvbn4038 on HN

Requests

  • Add more output formats: plain ASCII, plain Unicode, recipe format

    From 1 comment
    • Not bad, although you may want a few other formats, in addition to HTML format: true plain ASCII text, plain Unicode text, and recipe format. Also, it should be corrected so that…
      zzo38computer on HN
  • Make it usable as a command-line program writing to stdout

    From 1 comment
    • Not bad, although you may want a few other formats, in addition to HTML format: true plain ASCII text, plain Unicode text, and recipe format. Also, it should be corrected so that…
      zzo38computer on HN
  • Add recipe search via SQLite extension or SPARQL

    From 1 comment
    • Not bad, although you may want a few other formats, in addition to HTML format: true plain ASCII text, plain Unicode text, and recipe format. Also, it should be corrected so that…
      zzo38computer on HN

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