I love cooking food, but these damn online recipe websites have always been driving me insane.

Ads stacked on ads. Videos that start playing before the page loads. A 2,000-word personal essay about a holiday in Tuscany before you see a single ingredient.

So I built something about it.

Recipe data cannot be copyrighted. Ingredients, method, timings are factual information. They belong to everyone. So I built a crawler that extracts exactly that and discards everything else. A couple of days later I had a fully distributed architecture on Cloudflare at roughly 1/100th the cost of a conventional AWS setup.