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Show HN: Rapid Recipe – Reader mode for recipes

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Re: Show HN: Rapid Recipe – Reader mode for recipes

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Post by rreichel03 »

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!

Re: Show HN: Rapid Recipe – Reader mode for recipes

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Post by chrismatheson »

rreichel03 wrote: post #2

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 Exten…

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

Re: Show HN: Rapid Recipe – Reader mode for recipes

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Post by bshimmin »

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.

Re: Show HN: Rapid Recipe – Reader mode for recipes

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Post by rreichel03 »

brenelson wrote: post #5

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.

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!

Re: Show HN: Rapid Recipe – Reader mode for recipes

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Post by michaelmior »

bshimmin wrote: post #7

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…

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.

Re: Show HN: Rapid Recipe – Reader mode for recipes

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Post by dangoor »

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...

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