Does anyone know if Patrick has talked somewhere about why he decided to take a job at Stripe instead of continuing his consulting business or starting a new venture?
Patrick didn't strike me as someone interested in working at a "regular" job.
It looks like you're using the recipe-scrapers library to scrape recipes which only supports a set number of websites.
If you want to expand that, I recommend parsing JSON+LD and Microformats. Given your parsers folder [2], it looks like you've tried it, but only for specific websites. I would make that generic and check whether the metadata is available on any website. I wrote a blog post on this if you're interested [3].
If you're interested in switching, http://www.mysaffronapp.com/ has a bulk import from Paprika and you'd be able to share an account with your partner.
I built this for my mom after she wanted a better place to store all the recipes she liked to cook.
You can import recipes from websites and organize them into digital cookbooks.
Once you add some recipes to Saffron, you can generate grocery lists from them or create meal plans. With our app you can use the grocery list at the store or access your recipes on the go.
We also have a text importer which can work for PDF/Google Doc recipes but it can be hit or miss.
Cool project, I love that you can search by macros. A few points:
1. Clipping recipes from different websites can be quite challenging because of the varying html structures. I recently tackled this problem and I'm curious what method you used to find recipe content within an html page? I ended up checking to see if the website followed a Recipe schema [1] and if not use a mix of heuristics to try identifying if a line of text was an ingredient. I also was considering using machine learning in there, but couldn't figure out a good way to incorporate it.
2. Is there a reason you don't include the instructions of the recipe on your website?
Awesome to see some fresh sites in this space. I built Saffron [2] which is focused on organizing your recipes into digital cookbooks.
I recently read the book "The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing" and it talked about how when a company adds more lines of business that long term it can have negative effects (lack of focus). Do you think Apple has over diversified?