Onlyrecipe 2.0
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HN · launched Dec 4, 2025 · 201 upvotes (top 5%) · 0 views
Niche: recipe and cooking apps · 178 launches, 26 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Vertical SaaS
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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More like this: all 178 launches in recipe and cooking apps →
Could you build this?
Yes This is a recipe scraper and organizer app that parses schema.org/Recipe metadata or uses an LLM to extract recipe steps into a printable UI.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Mela - recipe extraction and OCR from cookbooks
Concerns raised: Can't scroll to actual recipe - poor UX, Infinite scroll repeats confusingly, Volume conversion accuracy issues between US/metric measurements, Upsell popup shows incorrect import count, US imperial units shown as primary instead of metric
Feature requests: Suggested example URLs in homepage search dropdown for new visitors, Make metric system the primary unit system, Fix volume/unit conversion for dry vs liquid ingredients
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 135 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #8 of 136 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 34 days after the earliest competitor.
- DiaTweaks · github · 2026-10-30 · 335 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- fh2-mods · github · 2026-10-12 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Hibernate and restore Claude Code sessions across reboots · hn · 2026-07-23 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- dn · github · 2026-10-01 · 24 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- frappe_config_pack · github · 2026-09-15 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- resp-ultra-edit · github · 2026-11-07 · 40 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- TsukiREbuild · github · 2026-11-10 · 51 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- Myaven · github · 2026-09-12 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.36
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