[HN Gopher] Show HN: Rapid Recipe - Reader mode for recipes
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Show HN: Rapid Recipe - Reader mode for recipes
Author : rreichel03
Score : 28 points
Date : 2021-11-29 13:10 UTC (9 hours ago)
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| anotheryou wrote:
| uhm, no preview/example?
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| edit: the preview image is cut off at the bottom at some screen
| widths. I now changed my window size and have a slightly better
| idea of what it does.
| bshimmin wrote:
| As others have said, you're not going to get a lot of purchases
| without being able to preview what it does first (maybe build
| some slightly contrived examples?).
|
| I wish there were just a standardised way for recipes to be
| presented. If I'm on a desktop or tablet, I want ingredients on
| the left, method on the right, a picture of how it's supposed to
| look at the top, perhaps some serving suggestions at the bottom,
| and _maybe_ a few interstitial pictures /videos in the method if
| it's something really difficult (I'm happy for these to appear in
| a modal). On mobile, I want the ingredients at the top and the
| method beneath it. I never want the life story. Having comments
| at the bottom is sometimes quite nice but fairly optional. I'd
| like to be able to toggle units to things that I'm comfortable
| with (I don't want ounces and cups but it should be possible for
| people who do).
|
| This shouldn't be too much to ask, it really shouldn't.
| michaelmior wrote:
| People have their own preferences on how they want recipes
| displayed. I think it is too much too ask that everyone who
| displays recipes does so according to my preferences. However,
| it would be nice if a lightweight method for marking up recipes
| caught on so that I would be able to set my preferences how I
| want. But of course this requires not only a standard to catch
| on, but for there to be sufficient tools to make it easy for
| those who post recipes to use it.
| brenelson wrote:
| It would be better if we could take a look at the application
| before we decide if we're going to buy or not. There's so little
| information on the website that makes us convinced to buy this
| app.
| rreichel03 wrote:
| That's great feedback! I'll work on putting together a
| before/after - That should better communicate how it works.
| EDIT: Just added a side by side comparison of the page - Its
| not the cleanest but hopefully shows you what it does!
| michaelbuckbee wrote:
| Feature request (not even sure this is possible) but if in the
| instructions you could add the measurements instead of what every
| recipe on the planet does and just say their name.
|
| Example: "Put eggs, flour, sugar and butter in the bowl"
|
| And it should be: "Put 2 eggs, 1 cup of flour, 1/2 cup sugar and
| 1 stick of butter in the bowl"
| GrumpyNl wrote:
| That where recipes goes wrong, how much is a cup or a 1/2 cup?
| How much is a stick of butter? Why not 250gr of flower, 125 gr
| of sugar, 100gr of butter.
| city41 wrote:
| If you really want to know, this video covers this issue
| well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TE8xg3d8dBg
| boringg wrote:
| So its an aggregation technology that strips out the work from
| the people who make those terrible recipe ad blogs (but on most
| sites they do have a jump to the recipe button). Though without
| the people making the recipe blogs (with agreeable terrible
| revenue models & likely low revenue) this would not be a value ad
| technology.
|
| Not sure this solves the problem - only a short term solution to
| a poor market structure. And how long does this run until it has
| to make revenue in some way?
| rreichel03 wrote:
| Hey HN folks! Do you ever wish you could just bypass the entire
| life story at the beginning of every recipe? It drove me crazy
| the other day when I was just trying to find a recipe for some
| chicken wings so I decided to do something about it, just in time
| for the Holidays.
|
| Rapid Recipe automatically detects when you're reading a recipe
| and renders just the recipe without all of the backstory. It's an
| App Safari Extension for iOS and macOS that you buy, set up once
| and it runs forever!
| chrismatheson wrote:
| Nice extension :) I assume this is using the sites own search
| engine metadata a-la
| https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/structure...
| ?
|
| I did a little digging into this a while ago for a hobby
| project, but it never went anywhere. Well done for shipping! :D
| rreichel03 wrote:
| Thanks! That's right in line with what I did.
|
| My development directory fully empathizes with starting
| something and not quite shipping it. I ended up getting this
| working because I time boxed myself, which was surprisingly
| successful for me. I'm planning on continuing to time box for
| future projects like this. May not work for everyone, but
| could be worth a try.
| melony wrote:
| Do you ship a local language model with the extension or is it
| cloud based?
| rreichel03 wrote:
| Currently its just shipping in English but if you browse a
| recipe website that is in another language it _should_ work if
| the recipe follows the standard metadata formats. If you come
| across a specific foreign language recipe that you think should
| work and doesn't shoot me an email at rapidrecipe AT
| reichel.dev
| rplatimer wrote:
| Very cool project, I launched a similar project called
| Repibox.com that works on chrome and firefox. However, I like how
| you got this working for iOS, which is something I didn't get to
| do. Also, your layout is very clean. Well done!
| rreichel03 wrote:
| That's great! I had some friends who are Android users who
| would love to use this so I'll send this their way.
| dangoor wrote:
| This is a great idea! Especially nice now that Safari extensions
| can be shared between iOS and Mac.
|
| I do think it faces some competition from Mela[1], but Mela's
| approach is to be a whole recipe manager and you get stuff into
| it via the Share extension. I don't necessarily want all recipes
| in my own database. Sometimes I just want a recipe once. Mela is
| also more expensive (buy separately for Mac and iOS).
|
| [1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mela-recipe-
| manager/id15689244...
| wodow wrote:
| Could this get the same kind of backlash as Recipeasly.com
| earlier this year? [1, 2]
|
| Should it?
|
| I realise Recipeasly was republishing stripped recipe content
| (search-indexably). Is that a sufficient difference?
|
| [1] Twitter announcement and thread:
| https://twitter.com/redman/status/1366137187117506560
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| [2] Mainstream news blow-up:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26311101
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