I agree with the other commenters: great idea, but needs a designer.

By the way, are you based in Chicago? I met somebody at the Chicago HN meetup last year who was talking about building this exact idea, and I loved the idea back then too. Are you that person by chance?

I am actually in Chicago, but I haven't been to a HN meetup so you're probably thinking of someone else.

To the GP, that was probably me. Unfortunately, we never got anything off the ground.

dpick, I'd be happy to share the ideas we were kicking around when thinking about this if you want to shoot me an email: john [at] nineteeneightd.com.

I really like this! Hopefully it gains momentum because it'd be really neat to have [a tool that can be used as] a crowd-sourced recipe-optimiser.

On a different note, I'm on a slow internet connection and it's very noticeable that the page is huge and not optimised for bandwidth (some thumbnailing and gzip-ing would be good to add at some point, to make the site as snappy as possible! :) ). https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights#url=h...

Thanks for the feedback! I'm actually working on making the main page use thumbnails right now.

I just bookmarked a couple of recipes. It would be nice if the default name when saving as a favorite included the name of the recipe rather than the name of the site (particularly for those who want to bookmark more than one recipe). Think you probably just have to make the "<title>" include the recipe name.

I really should have done that a long time ago. I'll add it now, thanks for the tip.

I would use it if you built in conversions for us that think in deciliters and not spoons or lb.

Ie a dropdown on the profile settings page.

Great job. Maybe you could also use Foodspotting api to get awesome images of food.

You got it from badstartupideas, didn't you? :)

Haha actually I didn't, I started working on this a couple of weeks ago in my free time.