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FarProfessoron Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell

I run an iOS app! Half Lemons. It finds recipes using your ingredients. (https://halflemons.com)

It's freemium. And offers lifetime purchases and monthly sub. Will experiment with adding an annual sub soon.

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There's a great app for this! It's called Half Lemons (iOS only).

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What kind of investors subscribed to your round? Institutional VCs, angels, friends / family? Did you have pre-existing relationships with any of the investors? And if you're comfortable sharing, how much did you raise?

FarProfessoron Show HN: Half Lemons – recipes with the ingredients you have on hand

Wow! Excellent feedback! Sincere thanks for putting in the time to not only try the app, but also share such thoughtful feedback.

I hear you loud & clear that you'd like an easier process for keeping your ingredients up-to-date. This is the common theme I see across your suggestions. We've got some great features in the works to make it happen. You touched on some of them. And suggested good ideas for others that we hadn't considered. Kudos!

FarProfessoron Show HN: Half Lemons – recipes with the ingredients you have on hand

if you know, you know ;) i'm happy to hear you like it!

FarProfessoron Show HN: Half Lemons – recipes with the ingredients you have on hand

yes and no.

is Half Lemons the first app to do this? nope. can 9 out of 10 home cooks name another app that does it? also nope. that's because noone's gotten it right.

but iPod wasn't the first mp3 player ;) our secret sauce is our human curation of recipes on the app. a custom search algorithm. and relentless focus on user experience above all.

try it out. you'll see the difference is dramatic!

FarProfessoron Show HN: Half Lemons – recipes with the ingredients you have on hand

Glad to hear you like the site design!

Half Lemons doesn't do accounts. No sign-ups anywhere. It's an app, and it's freely available to download on the App Store. Our website is just a landing page. Hope this helps!

FarProfessoron Show HN: Half Lemons – recipes with the ingredients you have on hand

The Half Lemons app is available for iOS, and it's the first thing I've built! I'm a product manager by trade, and I learnt to code (Swift) to build HL. Very excited to hear any feedback from the community.

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