I built a vegan recipe aggregator to learn Go
This year I decided to launch a new product every month. The first one was smigster, and somehow I managed to get a second one done.
Kalester is a vegan recipe aggregator that pulls new recipes from a bunch of blogs every day. It's always a struggle to figure out what to cook, and having new recipe suggestions every day has been pretty nice.
I've been meaning to find an excuse to play around with Go a bit more, and I came up with the idea for this project. There's a Go app that runs on Cloud Run once a day and reads the blogs then puts the data in a Cloud SQL instance. A second Cloud Run container has the site backend.
It's been interesting to learn all these technologies, and I'm getting excited about what you can build with them. I don't have an idea for my next project yet, but it's still early!
Awesome choice, Go worths it :) If you have any questions about Go, you can ask me, I am also vegan and have been working with Go for 6 years.
Nice, is it open source? I'm also learning Go by doing a little fun project that includes technologies like HTTP, WebSocket, Postgres (without ORM!), Redis, Docker and Kubernetes
This is cool, I'd like it if the recipes were available on your domain instead of linking out to random sites (since a lot of recipe sites are a bit annoying and spammy, whereas you could present it cleanly). Keep it up :-)