I made a website to clean up recipe websites
Details
- External ID
- 47922781
- Source
- HN
- Company
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- Product
- I made a website to clean up recipe websites
- Website domain
- tangled.org
- Launched
- April 27, 2026
- Cohort
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- Upvotes
- 7
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.38817480719794345
- Tags
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Hi hn! It has always annoyed me that recipe websites are so cluttered and have so much (in my opinion) useless fluff, so I made a little website to solve that problem! One good thing about SEO for once is that Google has pretty much forced the internet to adopt JSON-LD for recipes so many recipes are directly extractable and for others I have several fall back parsers including an indieweb parser :)If you do find a website that is broken feel free to click the flag button or share it as I would love to fix any edge cases
Enrichment
- Theme
- meal planning and food discovery
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Vertical SaaS
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- clean up recipe websites
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Parsing JSON-LD schema markup (`schema.org/Recipe`) from a requested URL and displaying the ingredients and instructions in a clean UI is a beginner-to-intermediate web scraping script easily built with AI.
Discussion
7 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Claude (AI for recipe distillation)
Concerns raised: Recipe instructions often imprecise and unclear
Feature requests: Export to clean Markdown for Obsidian, Print view with just ingredients and steps, AI-based tuning to improve recipe clarity
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 123 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #73 of 124 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 176 days after the earliest competitor.
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- A food guide that ignores Google and Yelp ratings · hn · 2025-12-16 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.46
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- seo.web.cafe-extension · github · 2026-09-23 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- I Derived a Steak · hn · 2026-06-26 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Reciped · ph · 2026-09-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a vertical saas tool for Insurance yet.