Recipe Jar, a local-first recipe keeper with no account or ads
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HN · launched Aug 7, 2026 · 9 upvotes (top 47%) · 0 views
Niche: recipe and cooking apps · 178 launches, 24 in the last 7 days ▼ -4% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- 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 Recipe Jar is a client-side PWA that parses recipe web pages (extracting standard JSON-LD Schema.org metadata) and stores cards locally in IndexedDB/localStorage.
Discussion
3 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Some recipe sites not providing data/playing ball, Search results not showing available recipes clearly
Feature requests: Mobile app for cooking, List of recipe options to pick from in search
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 346 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #154 of 347 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 280 days after the earliest competitor.
- cooking-aficionado · github · 2026-11-10 · 102 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- my-recipe-book-professional · github · 2026-11-10 · 102 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- I made a website to clean up recipe websites · hn · 2026-04-27 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Noodlist · hn · 2026-04-17 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- craft-libs · github · 2026-10-09 · 200 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Zerobrew · hn · 2026-02-04 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- pocket-tasks · github · 2026-11-05 · 57 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- mayonnaise · github · 2026-10-10 · 46 upvotes · similarity 0.42
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