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24 alternatives to What Should I Cook – Cooking Ideas
Hey all, I made this prototype called What Should I Cook to help me think of what to cook. It is still a WIP but I feel comfortable sharing it now. I am still adding recipes and some features! Please try it out and let me know what you think.
What Should I Cook is a web-based tool designed to help users decide what to prepare for meals. The prototype generates cooking ideas and suggestions based on available recipes in its database. It is intended for home… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. What Should I Cook – Cooking Ideas launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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We're building Parsnip to create a "tech tree" of cooking skills that allows anyone to level up on the building blocks of cooking knowledge while tracking their progress over time. It took us a few iterations to figure out the right product; here's the story of our latest pivot: [https://parsnip.substack.com/p/a-new-hope] The goal is to create a personalized way to learn any recipe on the Internet, then use this as a springboard to help home cooks of all levels solve the problem of repeated meal planning in a 10x better way:…
2022 · parsnip.ai · its alternatives →
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What to Eat▲66A recipe recommendation engine
2023 · what-to-eat-applescan.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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Search recipes by name, category, or by ingredients you have
2022 · its alternatives →
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Hello HN, My girlfriend and I waste too much energy to decide what to eat. Every day, we would text each other, "what do we eat tonight" messages, and go over options and many times spend too much time on deciding. I am an indie dev and created this app to solve my own problem: decide with my girlfriend what to eat for dinner. Initially, I created a simple app, in which we listed all the recipes we ever prepared, and it would propose randomly three of them. We would then choose together one of them. This app[0] turned into a tinder-like app, which would propose every day a set of recipes to…
2024 · whatdinner.com · its alternatives →
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A site that tells you what to cook and provides the recipe
2017 · whatthefuckshouldimakefordinner.com · its alternatives →
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Create personalized recipes based on ingredients
2024 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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2017 · eathow.com · its alternatives →
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Make your own recipe, just start with the ingredients
2023 · what-the-chef.com · its alternatives →
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CookBrite▲129Make a delicious meal with the ingredients you already have!
2015 · cookbrite.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, COVID lockdowns made me and my wife cook a lot more at home, and we had a need to streamline our recipe management woes. These were some of the problems we identified: - Most recipe websites are what I call "mommy blogs", and the principal problem is that the recipe ingredient list and instructions are buried in a SEO-laden essay that we don't care about. We were sharing links to our favorite recipes, but links don't allow you to skip past the unnecessary essay prefacing the recipe. We knew we wanted a way to have recipes uncompromised by unrelated essays. - Popular recipe aggregating…
2022 · letscooktime.com · its alternatives →
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Revolutionize your meal planning
2023 · harryfbloch.wixsite.com · its alternatives →
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Cook, share and organize your recipes like a pro with Notion
2023 · riyaj.gumroad.com · its alternatives →
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Write us the ingredients, we create your baking recipe.
2022 · its alternatives →
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2011 · ingredientpairings.com · its alternatives →
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Average Cookbook▲116Get a consensus recipe for your next meal 🍪 🍰
2018 · averagecookbook.com · its alternatives →
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