Stovetop
Consumer and social
recipe search
SHOW HN2021
403points
207comments
#74of 2,533 in 2021
Top 3%of 2021 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
13 positive, 32 neutral or asking, 9 mixed, 23 critical, out of 77 comments about the project. Thread score -0.12.
Execution: 1 for, 18 againstIdea: 6 for, 4 againstDesign: 3 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Clean UI and simple design
From 3 comments
Very well done. I love the design and simplicity. I would be cool if you could search by ingredients or food allergies. Somewhere you can basically state the ingredients you have…
bko on HNGreat job! Love the UI. Did you build this from scratch or is it an extended, existing database front-end? The search/filters/sorting would be really useful to generalise as its…
fortydegrees on HNawesome - bookmarked! small bug: go to page 2 of some search results and enter a different search term. You'll stay on page 2 and if there are not enough results to fill page 2,…
anonu on HN
Useful search, filters and sorting by rating
From 2 comments
The search here is great - you can filter by min number of reviews and sort by star rating, which should be the default on amzn, newegg, etc. Ok, I know this filter is not on…
RandyRanderson on HNVery well done. I love the design and simplicity. I would be cool if you could search by ingredients or food allergies. Somewhere you can basically state the ingredients you have…
bko on HN
Objections
Recipe links lead to pages with ads, life stories, or paywalls
From 4 comments
The search feature is nice, but I was sad when it took me to the normal recipe page. What I would really love to have is a very concise and succinct view of the recipe itself.…
par on HNThe "no-BS" feature isn't working: "Unlock New York Times recipes and your personal recipe box with a free account."
musicale on HNTried it out. Searched for lamb curry. First listed is a paywalled NYT recipe. Was hoping for no BS as in no paywall, no extraneous narrative. Oh well.
netman21 on HNBe careful not to point your scraper at those mommy recipe bloggers that have a story about their grandma before the recipe. Most of the well know ones are making 6 figures a…
wzy on HN
Broken links and 404 errors, plus a 500 error on apostrophes
From 4 comments
All recipes are 404 not found
roofwellhams on HNLooks good once the 404 issue is fixed. Perhaps for a future release you could tag / filter sources by country? A big problem for me in recipe search is avoiding localisation…
james_in_the_uk on HN1. This makes an API request for every keystroke. Perhaps adding debouncing would be a good idea? 2. 500 error when typing a quotation mark - needs escaping:…
herpderperator on HNCan't type an apostrophe. ' breaks it.
RosanaAnaDana on HN
Ratings look unreliable, e.g. Maangchi sorting to top
From 2 comments
So, ah... is it just me or is "Maangchi" just entirely faking their reviews? Toggle that slider up to 5k and it's just them sitting there at ridiculous numbers all pegged at 5…
horsawlarway on HNCool! Sorting by number of ratings, the first 30 or more results are all by "Maangchi". I think there is something wrong with their ratings.
schleck8 on HN
Requests
Search by ingredients on hand and by allergies or diet
From 2 comments
Very well done. I love the design and simplicity. I would be cool if you could search by ingredients or food allergies. Somewhere you can basically state the ingredients you have…
bko on HNDon't get me wrong, I think yours is definitely a no-bs application, however I think the entire recipe search engines is not working, or at least, not in the way I expect it to…
pachico on HN
Concise recipe view that strips out story text
From 2 comments
The search feature is nice, but I was sad when it took me to the normal recipe page. What I would really love to have is a very concise and succinct view of the recipe itself.…
par on HNThis is great, thank you. Do you have any plans to do an Instapaper-style scrape that just reduces the recipe down to the ingredients/instructions?
rglover on HN
Sort default by Bayesian rating instead of raw average
From 1 comment
Great idea! But please read https://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating.html
m12k on HN
Fix ingredient matching and plural duplicates
From 3 comments
Some thoughts: 1) Clean up the plural duplicates, e.g. peanut/peanuts, leek/leeks, carrot/carrots, etc. 2) I've never considered the author, is that common? 3) Mode to toggle…
ffumarola on HNI think that for the ingredients you need to treat the entire phrase as a single unit. For instance, when i put in apple as an ingredient you return results that need apple cider…
AaronNewcomer on HNYou've got some ingredients that don't map to any recipes, e.g. "tofu scramble". Also please add a facets like feature to avoid the user selecting combinations of ingredients…
smallerfish on HN
Questions
How is the data collected, crawled or manually entered?
From 2 comments
Where is the data coming from? Are you manually entering each recipe, ingredients, rating etc into a database or do you have an automated service pulling it all in from various…
uhtred on HNExcellent stuff and a nice break from the "rewrite it all in in my tasty-flavour-lang" approaches to doing this that crop up often on HN (not that those aren't impressive on a…
HunchedOver on HN
Which search engine does it use?
From 1 comment
What search engine does it use?
throw89vv on HN
Alternatives named
Paprika recipe app
From 1 comment
I'll take this opportunity to mention one of my favorite apps: Paprika [0]. It's a recipe app that can import from just about every recipe site/blog/etc and if it can't…
joshstrange on HN
plainoldrecipe.com
From 1 comment
https://plainoldrecipe.com/ does this!
mfashby on HN
based.cooking
From 1 comment
Looks great! https://based.cooking/ might be another good source of recipes if you're not already using it.
anschwa on HN