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by pradn 2021 days ago
Someone should make a text-only recipe search website. Recipe websites are so heavy and full of interstitials, banners, auto-play videos, and ads. Two million recipes can be easily stored in memory. (2 million * 8000 characters per recipe text ~= 16 GB of RAM.) Put a CDN in front of it and you're golden.
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Ask and you shall receive! I indexed the data from this post in Typesense and built a static site hosted on S3 with Cloudfront in front: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25365397
Wow, this is amazing!!
I would love to see this!

My wife and I cook most of our meals at home, and I have yet to encounter a recipe site I don't hate. All Recipes is about as good as it gets, but only because they have a print button at the top of every recipe that takes you to a printer friendly version.