Opensource.cooking: A simple, bloat-free cooking site • Hacker News Board

If you're talking about the recipes, it's open source in that it's public domain. Or it's not open source, because it can't be copyrighted and therefore all the frameworks that allow for open source don't apply. [1]

This is actually _really, really interesting_ and could spur some really great discussion, so I was ready to check out the HN comments only to find... griping about recipe sites. Ctrl+F 'Open Source' to find this comment. Man, HN sucks.

[1] https://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-protect.html#:~:text=...

Re: Opensource.cooking: A simple, bloat-free cooking site

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Post by spullara » Thu, Apr 08, 2021, 12:39 AM UTC

flatiron wrote: post #11

I’ve always wanted to make a GitHub for recipes. You can fork recipes. Submit pull requests. Public and private repositories. Versioning and commit history. Share with friends, Etc.

Sounds like just github.

Re: Opensource.cooking: A simple, bloat-free cooking site

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Post by locua » Thu, Apr 08, 2021, 12:48 AM UTC

vanilla-almond wrote: post #58

peter_retief wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes it really does need some work. There is a need for a simple well curated recipe site though, there is always lots of interest.

" There is a need for a simple well curated recipe site though, there is always lots of interest " Does BBC Food count? It's ad-free if you are in the UK (possibly not if you're outside the UK). It has a wealth of recipes and food-related content: https://www.bbc.co.uk/food

It is my usual go to, thought a crowd-sauced job might be nice :P

Re: Opensource.cooking: A simple, bloat-free cooking site

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Post by locua » Thu, Apr 08, 2021, 12:52 AM UTC

qznc wrote: post #41

What is Open Source about it? Could not find license or anything.

Source here: https://github.com/locua/oscooking

Re: Opensource.cooking: A simple, bloat-free cooking site

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Post by locua » Thu, Apr 08, 2021, 12:54 AM UTC

jlkuester7 wrote: post #2

Very nice! Most recipe websites these days are horrible (poor layout, annoying popups/popovers, crazy amounts of content that have little or nothing to do with the recipe....). The minimalism of this website is refreshing. I only wish the website itself was also open source. It would be pretty cool to be able to collaborate on and enhance the site (and a SCM hosting platform like GitHub or GitLab would provide a buil…

https://github.com/locua/oscooking

Re: Opensource.cooking: A simple, bloat-free cooking site

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Post by locua » Thu, Apr 08, 2021, 12:54 AM UTC

douglasquaid84 wrote: post #17

Is this not a clone of based.cooking?

sorta, https://github.com/locua/oscooking, in style yes

Re: Opensource.cooking: A simple, bloat-free cooking site

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Post by locua » Thu, Apr 08, 2021, 12:55 AM UTC

k2enemy wrote: post #53

Thank you for the effort! You might consider using the recipe schema [0] for better interoperability with other recipe managers. [0] https://schema.org/Recipe

Nice.

Re: Opensource.cooking: A simple, bloat-free cooking site

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Post by locua » Thu, Apr 08, 2021, 12:56 AM UTC

SavantIdiot wrote: post #48

I really wish a curated site existed with the intent of the author, but there is more to this than just putting up a database and letting everyone pile on. This site, started in 1999, attempted OP's goals: https://foodgeeks.com/ ... it was probably one of my fave sites for years that was actively curated, but it took a LOT of time to keep healthy. I appreciate the effort, but this isn't as easy as it looks.

Just playing really. This one looks nice.