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milomildus··on Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine
Done, thanks for the feedback!
milomildus··on Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine
hm, I'll take a look at this. Thanks for reporting.
milomildus··on Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine
Thanks! From scratch -- I think there are quite a few already existing React components / component libraries for table views like this, but I'll think about if there's anything I can generalize.
milomildus··on Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine
I already support time and includes / excludes ingredients, but saved profiles and the other filters are good ideas!
milomildus··on Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine
I hope not -- unlike the other site you still have to go to the source to read the recipe, so hopefully this doesn't have an impact on their ad revenue.
milomildus··on Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine
I'm currently working on a data structure for ingredients which significantly improves on the current flat list. It should be able to address plural duplicates / locale duplicates / and hierarchy. 4) is a good idea.

The thing I struggle with for pictures is where to put them, but I'll play around with some options. Maybe they can be behind a toggle.

milomildus··on Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine
Ha! Thanks for this. I knew that this must be a solved problem but wasn't searching for the right thing. I'll take a look at implementing a better default sort order.
milomildus··on Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine
I'm currently crawling the sources which publish schema.org definitions of their recipes, or the actual html itself. Basically doing whatever google does to create their recipe cards.

Everything gets thrown into a Postgres database with a vanilla FTS implementation.

milomildus··on Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine
yeah I'm a big fan -- what other sources / sites do you generally use? I'm trying to aggregate an 'authoritative' list of high quality sources.
milomildus··on Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine
404 issue should be fixed.

Tagging by country / locale is a good idea. Another thing I'm currently working on is using a data structure of ingredients instead of a flat list. This structure will handle things like different names for ingredients and hierarchy (ie. no dairy will exclude milk and butter as well.)

milomildus··on Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine
Hi HN

I wanted to be able to search recipes from sources I knew I could trust. I also wanted a way to sort recipes by rating and include and exclude ingredients I already had.

Going forward, I aim to add more sources, better ingredient filtering (hierarchical) and more dimensions (cuisine, meal time, etc.)

Let me know what you think! One thing I struggled with was whether to includes mode with pictures or not. I can’t decide if the loss in info density is worth the benefit.