Show HN: Minimalist Recipie Site

Show HN: Minimalist Recipie Site(foodbatch.com)

4 points by eporomaa 2 years ago | 2 comments

A while back I had some spare time and wanted to try out nextjs and postgREST (https://postgrest.org/en/v12/). The results is the www.foodbatch.com website.

Now I don't know what to do with it.. I do use it myself, but I could have multiple subscriptions for the cost of hosting it..

Anyhow, it has left me with some questions. Since typical recipe sites are optimized for SEO, and this site is the anti-thesis of that. How do you actually attract traffic? Besides swallowing your pride and posting on HN.

Also, is there a place for sites like this in our time or should we just give it up to the LLM overlords?

Any feedback appreciated.

piotrke 2 years ago |

> Recipe sites are convoluted with ads and articles used for search engine optimization. We want a minimalistic way of storing the recipes that we like and want share and to be able to read from my phone while working in the kitchen.

Well... I understand your point of view and good intentions, but... IMO you should read this article first: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40184673 / https://theluddite.org/#!post/google-ads

Cheers!

eporomaa 2 years ago | |

Thanks for sharing the article. I liked it. Unfortunately, it does not provide any solution to "bloating". I guess that the root of the issue is that Google optimizes for the time that ads get displayed, and quantity over quality sites will display more ads per actual information provided.