Hi everybody! I’m a developer from Germany and I made a recipe app called RecipeSesame. https://recipesesame.app/
I know you’ve probably seen a few of these apps already. You paste a link from a website, a reel from YouTube, Instagram or TikTok, or a post, or you take a photo, and the recipe lands in your cookbook.
This is the app I wish I’d had when I started cooking. I was living in a WG (a shared flat) back then, and we wanted to eat as well as we could for as little money as possible (the prices are for Germany for now). So I built it with a household in mind: you share the recipes, the shopping list and the meal plan with the people you live with, and everyone’s allergies and diets are saved so you can plan around them. When you have people over, you can make a gathering, and for a potluck, guests add what they’re bringing.
It runs in the browser because I switch between my phone and my computer all the time. It’s in German, English and Spanish because I speak those, and in French because I’m learning it. Greek is there because a friend helped me test the app, her mother wanted to use it too, so I added it for her.
Since this is Buy European, I want to be honest about what’s European and what isn’t. The data is saved in Frankfurt, the AI that reads the recipes is Mistral (France), and the sign-in emails go through Mailjet (France). But the hosting is Cloudflare and the database is Supabase, both US companies, and the CAPTCHA is from Cloudflare too. The European options I looked at all needed a monthly payment, and since this is a hobby I don’t earn anything from, that didn’t fit yet. I’d love to move over eventually.
There are no ads, no tracking cookies and no third-party analytics. It’s free, and the running costs are small enough that I cover them myself. If it ever grows to the point where that no longer works, I might add a paid option, but everyone already using it keeps what they have for free.
If you try it, I’d really like to hear what you think, especially if a recipe doesn’t import well. Or if there’s something you’d like it to do!
Disclaimer: I’m the developer of this app.
If you’re looking for a great open-source alternative – also built in Germany, also available hosted for a small fee: https://tandoor.dev/ (not affiliated)
There’s also KitchenOwl. Free to use, open source to srlf-host.
This. Also OP’s app looks almost exactly like one of tandoors clients, https://github.com/kitshn-app/kitshn
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There is also https://github.com/nextcloud/cookbook/ which is an exellent open source alternative.
Can’t find any source code, so this is probably not a free software project, but self-advertising of a product that will get monetized later.
Hope someone will prove me wrong.
Well, its in ‘Buy European’, not in ‘Free Software’. And it’s an app to steal recipes.
Hey! Yeah, you’re right, I should’ve gone with a different title. I originally built it for myself and my family, thought it turned out pretty well, and figured I’d share it. But, yes, you’re still right. I changed the title.
Like I mentioned in the post, there are no tracking cookies, ads or analytics. The costs are low right now, so I can cover them myself, even with a decent number of users. If a ton of people suddenly start using it, I might need to add some kind of paid option at some point, but everyone already using it keeps what they have for free. I also put that in the terms.
You can also export all your recipes at any time and not lose anything.
Vibe coded I guess?
There’s a difference between telling Claude to code everything and having it help you while you question everything it does.
I wouldn’t call it vibe coded, but yes, I do use AI while coding. I’ve been developing software for about 15 years, and nowadays I use AI to help me code faster. If you find something that doesn’t work, tell me and I’ll try to fix it as soon as possible.
So it is vibe coded. Just because you have experience in the field doesn’t change that the code is mostly created via vibes.
I didn’t look at the app, and I certainly won’t use non open source app, but there is difference between vibe coded and ai assisted. Maybe OP can share how exactly he uses the AI?
We might have different definitions of what vibe coding is, but fair enough. What’s your concern with it? If it’s quality or security, I’m happy to answer whatever you want to know.
Lemmy hates AI (and for good reason). Just something to keep in mind when posting here.
What’s your concern with it?
The means don’t justify the ends. Also it causes brain rot.
