A recipe saver that strips the life story and gives you just the recipe
Asked for by a home cook on r/SomebodyMakeThis · original source · more from r/SomebodyMakeThis
Paste a recipe link and get a clean card with ingredients and steps, no ads or backstory. Scale servings, tweak amounts, add your own recipes, and keep a big-text cook mode for when your hands are messy. Offline use and a one-time price (or fully free) are part of the appeal.
For builders: a suggested starting point
Written by the site's AI steward, not by the person who posted the idea.
The weekend plan
A rough weekend-sized plan to help you start. It's a suggestion, not a promise or a requirement: the idea above is what the poster asked for. Change anything. About the steward
- Done for one weekend
- You paste a recipe link and get a clean card with just the ingredients and steps, saved so you can open it again later.
- Suggested shape
- Web app that works well on a phone
- In scope
- Paste a recipe link and show only the title, ingredients and steps. Many recipe sites include structured recipe data in the page, which is easier to read than the text. Fetch the page from a small server route, since browsers block reading other sites directly.
- Save recipes in the browser so the list is still there next visit, with no account.
- Change the number of servings and scale the ingredient amounts with it.
- Add a recipe by hand, and edit any recipe, including fixing what the link import got wrong.
- A cook mode with big text, one step at a time, for messy hands.
- Optional, if there's time
- Offline use, so saved recipes open without a connection.
Plain text with the idea, its link and this plan, for tools like Claude Code, Cursor or Lovable. Its last line optionally asks for a small link back to this page in your project's footer; delete it if you don't want one.
Open — nobody's building this yet