{"slug": "onlyrecipe", "name": "Onlyrecipe", "category": "other", "category_name": "Other software", "description": "", "recommenders": 3, "commenters": 3, "warners": 0, "score": 2.434, "rising": -0.98, "first": "2025-12-04", "latest": "2025-12-05", "why": "This is amazing, and at first glance it is going to solve many of my problems.", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 3, "neutral": 0, "compare": 0, "warn": 0}, "spark": [0, 3, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "This is amazing, and at first glance it is going to solve many of my problems.", "kind": "", "icon": true, "domain": "onlyrecipeapp.com", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://onlyrecipeapp.com", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Onlyrecipe", "OnlyRecipe", "Only Recipe"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 738533504, "item_id": 46158344, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46158344", "by": "askvictor", "date": "2025-12-05", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Looks great, will give it a try.", "excerpt": "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 problem to solve, since it's difficult to determine the country if origin of a recipe). I'm many recipes it won't matter, but in some it will make a big difference", "context": "", "use_case": "recipe management", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Onlyrecipe 2.0 \u2013 I added all features HN requested \u2013 4 years later"}, {"id": 738519200, "item_id": 46157450, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46157450", "by": "rafabulsing", "date": "2025-12-04", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "All that said: this is pretty great.", "excerpt": "Trying 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 ounces bread flour became just \"12 ounce\" - Yield of 2 dozen cookies became just \"2 servings\" Also, not really a bug per se, but the site contains both metric and imperial measures already, and I see that you only take the imperial units and ", "context": "", "use_case": "Recipe scraping and scaling", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Onlyrecipe 2.0 \u2013 I added all features HN requested \u2013 4 years later"}, {"id": 738396864, "item_id": 46149804, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46149804", "by": "bja", "date": "2025-12-04", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "This is amazing, and at first glance it is going to solve many of my problems.", "excerpt": "This is amazing, and at first glance it is going to solve many of my problems. I see offers to start a free trial but nothing about pricing. The sign up page doesn't work well with my password manager, I imagine you need to add auto fill hints to the textboxes, looks like your using flutter, so add these to each textbox you want to autofill: https://api.flutter.dev/flutter/material/TextField/autofillHints.html, it sh", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Onlyrecipe 2.0 \u2013 I added all features HN requested \u2013 4 years later"}]}], "caveats": [], "who": [], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["recipe management", "recipe scraping and scaling"], "compared": [], "makers": [{"id": 740947936, "item_id": 46309246, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46309246", "by": "AwkwardPanda", "date": "2025-12-17", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Just over $500 in subscriptions right now since posting on HackerNews and Reddit.", "excerpt": "Just over $500 in subscriptions right now since posting on HackerNews and Reddit. This is mostly because of the posts gaining high engagement and people signing up and subscribing. Many also migrating from other apps. Expecting the revenue to go down next month https://onlyrecipeapp.com", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 \u2013 Show and tell"}, {"id": 740032592, "item_id": 46252037, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46252037", "by": "AwkwardPanda", "date": "2025-12-12", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Building https://onlyrecipeapp.com", "excerpt": "Building https://onlyrecipeapp.com Here's the HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46148460", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What are you working on? (Dec 2025)"}, {"id": 738446336, "item_id": 46152896, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46152896", "by": "AwkwardPanda", "date": "2025-12-04", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "There is a free tier.", "excerpt": "Glad you liked it. There is a free tier. So you don't necessarily have to purchase. The pricing summary is here https://get.onlyrecipeapp.com/pricing Thank you", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Onlyrecipe 2.0 \u2013 I added all features HN requested \u2013 4 years later"}, {"id": 738375504, "item_id": 46148469, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46148469", "by": "AwkwardPanda", "date": "2025-12-04", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I genuinely love working on it", "excerpt": "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 \u2014 I had some health issues and was building on and off \u2014 but I kept", "context": "", "use_case": "Recipe app with clean import", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Onlyrecipe 2.0 \u2013 I added all features HN requested \u2013 4 years later"}, {"id": 737930032, "item_id": 46120627, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46120627", "by": "AwkwardPanda", "date": "2025-12-02", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I genuinely love working on it", "excerpt": "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 \u2014 I had some health issues and was building on and off \u2014 but I kept", "context": "", "use_case": "recipe import and meal planning", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: OnlyRecipe 2.0 \u2013 I added the features HN requested \u2013 4 years later"}], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46148460", "title": "Show HN: Onlyrecipe 2.0 \u2013 I added all features HN requested \u2013 4 years later", "mentions": 5}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46307973", "title": "Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 \u2013 Show and tell", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46118229", "title": "Ask HN: What are you working on? (Dec 2025)", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46120625", "title": "Show HN: OnlyRecipe 2.0 \u2013 I added the features HN requested \u2013 4 years later", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {"recommend": 3}, "2026-01": {}, "2026-02": {}, "2026-03": {}, "2026-04": {}, "2026-05": {}, "2026-06": {}, "2026-07": {}, "2026-08": {}, "2026-09": {}, "2026-10": {}}, "versions": [], "version_unnamed": 0, "family_ref": null, "runs_on": null, "lines": [], "quotes": [{"id": 738533504, "item_id": 46158344, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46158344", "by": "askvictor", "date": "2025-12-05", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Looks great, will give it a try.", "excerpt": "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 problem to solve, since it's difficult to determine the country if origin of a recipe). I'm many recipes it won't matter, but in some it will make a big difference", "context": "", "use_case": "recipe management", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Onlyrecipe 2.0 \u2013 I added all features HN requested \u2013 4 years later"}, {"id": 738519200, "item_id": 46157450, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46157450", "by": "rafabulsing", "date": "2025-12-04", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "All that said: this is pretty great.", "excerpt": "Trying 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 ounces bread flour became just \"12 ounce\" - Yield of 2 dozen cookies became just \"2 servings\" Also, not really a bug per se, but the site contains both metric and imperial measures already, and I see that you only take the imperial units and ", "context": "", "use_case": "Recipe scraping and scaling", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Onlyrecipe 2.0 \u2013 I added all features HN requested \u2013 4 years later"}, {"id": 738396864, "item_id": 46149804, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46149804", "by": "bja", "date": "2025-12-04", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "This is amazing, and at first glance it is going to solve many of my problems.", "excerpt": "This is amazing, and at first glance it is going to solve many of my problems. I see offers to start a free trial but nothing about pricing. The sign up page doesn't work well with my password manager, I imagine you need to add auto fill hints to the textboxes, looks like your using flutter, so add these to each textbox you want to autofill: https://api.flutter.dev/flutter/material/TextField/autofillHints.html, it sh", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Onlyrecipe 2.0 \u2013 I added all features HN requested \u2013 4 years later"}]}