I made a website to clean up recipe websites
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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
HN · launched Apr 27, 2026 · 7 upvotes (top 61%) · 0 views
Niche: recipe and cooking apps · 178 launches, 24 in the last 7 days ▼ -4% · 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 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 : 216 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #113 of 217 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 178 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Recipe Jar, a local-first recipe keeper with no account or ads · hn · 2026-08-07 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- A food guide that ignores Google and Yelp ratings · hn · 2025-12-16 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- RoastDB · hn · 2026-01-17 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Recigle · ph · 2026-11-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- I Derived a Pancake · hn · 2026-06-05 · 340 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- seo.web.cafe-extension · github · 2026-09-23 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.43
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