Ben Awad developed a great little app which addresses this problem also. I believe he developed it with his mother - who is a the designer. https://www.mysaffronapp.com/
Show HN: OnlyRecipe.app – Remove clutter from recipe sites
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Re: Show HN: OnlyRecipe.app – Remove clutter from recipe sites
#42What is the reason that every single recipe site, without fail, follows this same horrible pattern? I.e. the twenty paragraph "When I was a child growing up in Atlanta..." followed by a crappy in-house video player followed by, finally, the actual recipe? My assumption is SEO? For some reason, Google must really like having tons of text on your page, and dislikes simple "here's the recipe"? etc? Second question - any…
They goal of a recipe website is to get ad revenue.
Top tier ad networks won’t accept your site if it’s just straight up recipes so you need to have the padding to get approved.
And it increases the amount of ads you can squeeze onto the page for higher RPMs
Re: Show HN: OnlyRecipe.app – Remove clutter from recipe sites
#43What is the reason that every single recipe site, without fail, follows this same horrible pattern? I.e. the twenty paragraph "When I was a child growing up in Atlanta..." followed by a crappy in-house video player followed by, finally, the actual recipe? My assumption is SEO? For some reason, Google must really like having tons of text on your page, and dislikes simple "here's the recipe"? etc? Second question - any…
It's SEO. Once a SEO expert was showing me user heatmaps on his popular website's articles. The users completely ignored 90% of the content and of the text of a page. I asked him why so many parts of the text were ignored by the users and his answer was "oh, that text is not for the users, it's for google". The literally paid writers to write articles way longer than needed solely to satisfy Google algorithms. The wo…
> The worst part is that it worked and they earned a lot of money from it.
This is the crux of the answer. The reason why recipe sites are full of garbage? Because it is effective and profitable.
Re: Show HN: OnlyRecipe.app – Remove clutter from recipe sites
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
No. As somebody who pays recipe creators and publishes recipes this is just wrong. The recipe is separate from the text that accompanies it
> The recipe is separate from the text that accompanies it Separate in a copyright sense? A web scraping bot won't necessarily make that distinction.
Yes in a copyright sense. Recipes are also separate in a technical sense too because for SEO purposes publishers use markup to help crawlers understand recipes.
Re: Show HN: OnlyRecipe.app – Remove clutter from recipe sites
#45It would be amazing if there was something that would convert recipes to the format used on Cooking For Engineers. It’s so intuitive and easy to read. I never want to look at steps to make a recipe again. Scroll to the bottom to see what I’m talking about: http://www.cookingforengineers.com/recipe/108/Banana-Nut-Bre...
This is a great way to represent recipes! It looks like it would also allow more info to be fit on a notecard compared to just text
Re: Show HN: OnlyRecipe.app – Remove clutter from recipe sites
#46Feedback: visiting recipe pages, such as the one bearjaws shared, using Safari[0] can result in you being "trapped" -- the back button doesn't have the desired effect. It looks like onlyrecipe may be doing something to the web history. 0: Safari on iOS 15.2, iPhone 8.
Hey, that's surprisingly very annoying. Thanks a lot for that feedback. I'll fix it ASAP.
In addition, I would encourage you to try the iOS app. Way better experience.
Because this is a app-first service. Web was built later.
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#47Thank you, I hate blog-post-type recipes! Do you plan on adding a dark mode?
Yes. That's in the roadmap. It'll be out soon on both android and iOS. Then on web.
Re: Show HN: OnlyRecipe.app – Remove clutter from recipe sites
#48Someone tried this a while back and it didn't go so well: https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2021/03/02/recipeasly-fo...
This is an app, though, not a website. If I understand correctly, it’s just parsing the page for you.
Edit: Oh, there is also a website.
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#49Sincere best wishes and good luck with this -- thank you! Then, please do the same for code sample sites. :)
Thank you.
Re: Show HN: OnlyRecipe.app – Remove clutter from recipe sites
#50It would be amazing if there was something that would convert recipes to the format used on Cooking For Engineers. It’s so intuitive and easy to read. I never want to look at steps to make a recipe again. Scroll to the bottom to see what I’m talking about: http://www.cookingforengineers.com/recipe/108/Banana-Nut-Bre...
Damn, that is awesome. We need an AI to convert text instructions into this format.