Onlyrecipe 2.0
Consumer and social
recipe app
SHOW HN2025
201points
157comments
#321of 3,837 in 2025
Top 9%of 2025 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
12 positive, 27 neutral or asking, 5 mixed, 19 critical, out of 63 comments about the project. Thread score -0.08.
Execution: 2 for, 14 againstDesign: 4 for, 1 againstIdea: 0 for, 2 againstPerformance: 0 for, 2 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Clean, helpful design and useful features
From 3 comments
It's beautiful and helpful. Thanks for sharing. Which are your top competitors in your opinion?
stanislavb on HNMan this is awesome. Recipe websites are so annoying.
d--b on HNWow, this is extremely well done I think. Congrats for launching!
perssontm on HN
Objections
Back button hijacking and navigation bugs
From 4 comments
Hijacks the back button :/
imperialdrive on HNClicking on back button of my mouse starts an infinite loop.
amir734jj on HNNeat but as soon as I clicked it, a recipe for Turkish pasta came up and it hijacked the back button.
Loughla on HNapparently I've imported 10 recipes....but I haven't used it. But then it had a freakout when I went in and tried going back, and .... yeah. Somehow I'm stuck on a link that has…
keithnz on HN
Metric unit conversion errors
From 3 comments
I'm not convinced that the units conversion is right. The example of 2 Cups of greek yoghurt being 391.32 g. 1 US cup is 240 ml (or 236.5 ml depending on which type of cup you…
pjsg on HNTrying it with Alton Brown's cookies led to some bugs: https://onlyrecipeapp.com/recipe-details?canonicalUrl=https://altonbrown.com/recipes/the-chewy-chocolate-chip-cookie/ - 12…
rafabulsing on HN- if you change to metric system suddenly you get numbers like 453,59 grams fusili pasta - its quite demotivating - instead of grams I would like also tell me how many americano…
pzo on HN
Laggy animations
From 2 comments
The animations are laggy and the transitions make the website slow.
bflesch on HNCongratulations on the work. Some nits/notes: - Browser history seems to go in a circle (at least in Chrome); try use the browser's native "back" arrow a few times after clicking…
wjrb on HN
Requests
Recipe scaling including directions and down to fractions
From 3 comments
This looks great. Something I'd like to see in a recipe app is scale is not only reflected in the ingredients list but also in the directions. The linked recipe is a great…
jpalmer on HN- if you change to metric system suddenly you get numbers like 453,59 grams fusili pasta - its quite demotivating - instead of grams I would like also tell me how many americano…
pzo on HNSince a recipe can be for multiple services, the ability to scale a recipe down would be helpful.
dbjacobs on HN
Selectable text
From 2 comments
Very minor point, in the grand scheme of things: when converting measurements from imperial to metric, I would be astonished if many recipes need more than two significant…
regularfry on HNI like the idea, but your UI implementation is extremely annoying. Please make the recipe page scrollable with arrow keys or pgUp pgDn. Get rid of the image so the entire list of…
ludicrousdispla on HN
Random recipe button
From 1 comment
Are you still taking suggestions? You should have a "random recipe" button that loads something random from your database. Right now, your product is very one-dimensional:…
phendrenad2 on HN
Questions
How tablespoon conversions handle regional differences
From 1 comment
Looks great, will give it a try. How does it handle tablespoon conversions, given that a tablespoon refers to a different volume in different countries? (This is a difficult…
askvictor on HN
How the scraper gets past Cloudflare
From 1 comment
Fantastic. I was actually working on something like this myself. I was planning to use an LLM as a fallback for recipes that don't contain properly formatted recipe data. Curious…
chrysoprace on HN
Alternatives named
Paprika
From 1 comment
There are many that do this TBH. But currently the only competition I consider is Paprika. They have been in this game for over a decade. I am going to add recipe imports…
AwkwardPanda on HN