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Re: Show HN: OnlyRecipe.app – Remove clutter from recipe sites

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Post by fleddr »

Hard_Space wrote: post #64
mirthturtle wrote: post #9

Someone tried this a while back and it didn't go so well: https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2021/03/02/recipeasly-fo...

From the WP article: But it’s even more complex than that. The stories are personal. They’re cultural. They’re often told from the perspective of women, immigrants and people of color who have created and invested in a platform to share their stories. The recipe aggregator sites, bloggers note, basically tell the creators that their stories have no value. It’s the same message America has told immigrants and women fo…

The complexity is imagined. It's not complex at all. People using Google for a free recipe are looking for...the recipe. If they were looking for stories from immigrants, they would have googled that.

Re: Show HN: OnlyRecipe.app – Remove clutter from recipe sites

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Post by mattschkolnick »

Larrikin wrote: post #254
eklbt wrote: post #247

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I'm a paprika user as well. Recently found "Mela" on the App Store. Not as many features(yet) but the UI is so much better than Paprika.

I'd like an alternative to Paprika that is updated more often, but the lack of Android app makes Mela an immediate non starter

I think you'd like Pepper (www.peppertheapp.com/)

Re: Show HN: OnlyRecipe.app – Remove clutter from recipe sites

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Post by mattschkolnick »

stuartbman wrote: post #87
JonathanBuchh wrote: post #30

It 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...

I use CookBook which scans websites, and OCRs cookbooks with good success! I have all my regular recipes on there now https://thecookbookapp.com/

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Post by mattschkolnick »

floren wrote: post #150
shortformblog wrote: post #138

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FYI, you are about to get eaten alive by foodies. https://www.eater.com/22307633/why-are-people-mad-at-recipea...

They're full of shit, though. Crack open the Better Homes & Gardens cookbook and find a cookie recipe, then search for the same recipe name online. You're going to find 1000 word essays about Dear Meema's Secret Snickerdoodle recipe... followed by the same damn recipe as the BH&G cookbook.

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Post by pjerem »

nybble41 wrote: post #210
pjerem wrote: post #161

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It's complicated. Where is the limit ? For me it's just a web browser optimized for recipe websites. It's basic scrapping. Google does it, why can't I do it ? Are "reader mode" browser extensions theft ? Are ad blockers theft ? Is using Lynx as a web browser theft ? If your business depends on your content never being scraped, you are screwed.

It's not that complicated. Copyright was simply never intended to apply to recipes. The fact that there is nothing copyrightable about a mere list of ingredients and basic preparation instructions without any creative elements is not in any sense a "loophole".

Also that.

Re: Show HN: OnlyRecipe.app – Remove clutter from recipe sites

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Post by floren »

mattschkolnick wrote: post #305
floren wrote: post #150

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They're full of shit, though. Crack open the Better Homes & Gardens cookbook and find a cookie recipe, then search for the same recipe name online. You're going to find 1000 word essays about Dear Meema's Secret Snickerdoodle recipe... followed by the same damn recipe as the BH&G cookbook.

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Matt, this ain't cool.

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=mattschkolnick

https://www.peppertheapp.com/about

Re: Show HN: OnlyRecipe.app – Remove clutter from recipe sites

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Post by wlonkly »

y04nn wrote: post #110

It is interesting that there is not yet a Wikipedia of recipes. It would be the perfect use case for a wiki. People would love to share their recipes variations and improve/fix existing one. There would be a standard layout, introduction paragraph would explain the history of a recipe and link to other similar recipes. That would be interesting to read. And there would be an endless number of recipes. For-profit site…

There's Wikibooks Cookbook, but it has nowhere near the reach of Wikipedia.

Here's what began as my wife's banana bread recipe many years ago: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Banana_Bread

Re: Show HN: OnlyRecipe.app – Remove clutter from recipe sites

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Post by robbyking »

fouc wrote: post #235
JonathanBuchh wrote: post #30

It 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...

You should link to the "recipe card" mode to show it better: http://www.cookingforengineers.com/recipe/108/Banana-Nut-Bre...

This is amazing!

I have ADHD so I often find my self taking a non-linear route to following a recipe: Step 1, Step 3, Step 4, oops! Step 2, now where was I? Is that salt or baking powder in the bowl?

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