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Certainly. That would provide a good user experience. Thank you.

Thanks for the feedback. I've made a note.

That should be doable. I have made a note. Thanks.

Yeah it tries to convert generically. I have noted this edge-case and I'll add special handling for cases like this.

Thank you for pointing it out

Thanks. I'll add this as an optional user preference

I've added it to my notes. Thanks

You are right. I'll add a fallback to parse it using LLM.

Haha. No, not this time. ;) It'll be released by this weekend and I am focusing on this project completely right now.

Thank you.

You have confirmed the two issues that others are also facing.

I'll definitely look into this

Noted this. Thank you.

Can you also tell me which browser and/or version you are using? I'll check it.

I have actually added same transition as mobile apps. But there shouldn't be lags ideally. I'll have a look.

Thank you for the feedback. Appreciate it. I have made a note of this. I will fix it in next release.

Thanks. Yes, makes total sense.

Will make these changes and release soon.

Thanks for pointing it out. I'll look into it and fix it by tomorrow.

Noted.

This page probably does not have the standard recipe attributes that are needed for parsing the recipe.

I am adding a fallback mechanism for such cases. The text will be parsed using LLM like ChatGPT.

Should be released by tomorrow. Cheers!

Sorry for that. I am still handling cases in web app. This is built in Flutter and released as a mobile-first or tablet-first app.

I am fixing many such issues right now. Should be at par with the mobile apps soon.

Oh shoot!

That's a reverse proxy configuration error. I just fixed it.

Please try registering again.

Thank you for the feedback. Will definitely release an update by tomorrow for this.

Regarding selection of text, that has been a problem with flutter. I will find a way to make it selectable.

There is an alternative. You can share the recipe or click print. There you would be able to select it.

Or, you could share the recipe and it would be copied to your clipboard.

I know that is not exactly what you want, but it will solve the purpose for now.

I'll fix it soon. Apologies.

Thank you.

There are many learnings:

1. The most unexpected thing that I learned was the absolute nightmare it is to set up subscriptions.

I initially thought it would be a simple task. I started off with writing APIs and webhooks for Play store and App store.

But then as I got into the specifics things got complicated very quickly.

The combinations of subscriptions (monthly/yearly, AI and non-AI), cancellations, cross device subscription sync, how to handle trials, how to manage subscription states of users, and then when users upgrade, that's another few cases to handle.

There were just too many cases to handle.

I then just used a third-party provider (RevenueCat). They have handled all the complexities beautifully.

2. Supabase self-host is another nightmare in itself. Just the sheer amount of configs needs (through the .env file) is insane. They have intentionally made it so difficult to configure.

3. Setting up SMTP and sending emails is actually a very tiring and cumbersome process. AWS SES is just too much work. Mainly the domain reputation (emails always landing in spam) and also there are not many providers that give a generous trial.

Hi HN,

I posted the first version of OnlyRecipe here about four years ago [1], and the response was incredible. The feedback in that thread shaped a lot of what I wanted to build next. That initial momentum proved that the core problem (ads, life stories, and clutter on recipe blogs) needed a solution.

Progress since then has been slower than I hoped — I had some health issues and was building on and off — but I kept coming back to this project because I genuinely love working on it. I’ve been working on the project on and off, fitting development in whenever I could. This post represents a huge personal milestone.

Here’s what’s new after all this time:

Import from Videos: Import directly from TikTok, Instagram, Youtube and Facebook videos

Import from Handwritten recipes: Import from handwritten notes and screenshots

Unit Conversion: A highly-requested feature. Instantly convert US Customary (cups/oz) to Metric (grams/ml) for any extracted recipe.

Grocery Lists: Consolidate ingredients from multiple saved recipes into a single, clean shopping list.

Meal Plan: Plan your weekly meals in advance

Controls: Full recipe editing, PDF export, printing, and cross-device sync

Mobile-First Design: While the web view (linked above) is great for quickly seeing the result, the mobile apps have dedicated native controls for cooking mode (e.g., screen stay-awake, timers, and offline access).

In-App Browser: Directly import from any site within the app and many more...

To see these features in action quickly (small gif/videos), check it out on the landing page [2]

The link above is a deep link to a live demo on the web app.

I’d love to hear your thoughts on the new utility features and the performance of the parser! Try it out here [5]

[1] Original post from Jan 2022: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29795482

[2] Landing Page: https://get.onlyrecipeapp.com

[3] iOS App: https://apps.apple.com/in/app/only-recipe/id1602130759

[4] Android App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nsqr.onlyr...

[5] Web app: https://onlyrecipeapp.com

I just realized the direct post link to recipe is not going to the recipe details page (only on the web app). It is going to the home page.

Looks like Flutter has to be loaded first and only then the direct deep links are working as expected.

Quick workaround for now is to just come back and click on the link again. This way since the web app is already loaded in your browser, it will directly open the recipe details page.

Meanwhile I'm debugging the issue with deeplinks on web

Hi HN,

I posted the first version of OnlyRecipe here about four years ago [1], and the response was incredible. The feedback in that thread shaped a lot of what I wanted to build next. That initial momentum proved that the core problem (ads, life stories, and clutter on recipe blogs) needed a solution.

Progress since then has been slower than I hoped — I had some health issues and was building on and off — but I kept coming back to this project because I genuinely love working on it. I’ve been working on the project on and off, fitting development in whenever I could. This post represents a huge personal milestone.

Here’s what’s new after all this time:

Import from Videos: Import directly from TikTok, Instagram, Youtube and Facebook videos

Import from Handwritten recipes: Import from handwritten notes and screenshots

Unit Conversion: A highly-requested feature. Instantly convert US Customary (cups/oz) to Metric (grams/ml) for any extracted recipe.

Grocery Lists: Consolidate ingredients from multiple saved recipes into a single, clean shopping list.

Meal Plan: Plan your weekly meals in advance

Controls: Full recipe editing, PDF export, printing, and cross-device sync

Mobile-First Design: While the web view (linked above) is great for quickly seeing the result, the mobile apps have dedicated native controls for cooking mode (e.g., screen stay-awake, timers, and offline access).

In-App Browser: Directly import from any site within the app and many more...

To see these features in action quickly (small gif/videos), check it out on the landing page [2]

The link above is a deep link to a live demo on the web app.

I’d love to hear your thoughts on the new utility features and the performance of the parser! Try it out here [5]

[1] Original post from Jan 2022: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29795482

[2] Landing Page: https://get.onlyrecipeapp.com

[3] iOS App: https://apps.apple.com/in/app/only-recipe/id1602130759

[4] Android App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nsqr.onlyr...

[5] Web app: https://onlyrecipeapp.com

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Gifts:

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Shopping Deals:

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Initially, it was only web and android, but now I have released iOS app as well.

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mysticpeak...

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/id1604578567#?platform=iphone

The web version was pretty basic, so I've taken it down currently. Learning Vue JS to enhance the frontend/UI.

The apps have pretty clean UI.

QR code scanner does work. I've scanned hundreds of QR codes. If you can share the url, I can see what's wrong.

Regarding "How to use?", yes this is an issue on android. If you click multiple times, it will work.

I will fix it.

Regarding http/https, I'll implement that.

So schema.org has a standard json schema for recipes. Crawlers use this information to parse and figure out what kind of content lives on the page.

Since google encourages this and ranks pages with schema higher, all recipe blogs and sites add this schema to their html.

This is structured data. I just parse this json.

Not all recipes follow this though. So you may occasionally see error messages for old sites that have not implemented schema.org structure.

There are multiple ways to do it. Copy-paste and share both are supported. You can use whichever is convenient.

Hi, currently there is nothing of this sort. The user agents are random. I have a couple of servers doing the scraping in real-time. The IPs are not static.

Let me see if I can build a opt-out list. But wouldn't it beat the entire purpose of this app?

Hey can you share the url.. I will fix small issues like this..

Oh shoot. I did not expect this huge a response. Any more load and my backend server is going to collapse.