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Show IH: Instant Search through 2M Cooking Recipes in milliseconds
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jasonbosco
https://recipe-search.typesense.org/
Interesting! If you have a food passion too, we should talk. Thinking of developing a food-specific newsletter platform (substackfood).
Substack-like newsletters are pretty generalist in their features and I see a room to niching them down for specific food creators. Food blogging constitutes a major part of blogging, and there is room to make a lot of food-specific newsletter features, and maybe some futuristic integration with cloud kitchens? (think of everyone contributing recipes to a hellofresh-like infrastructure?). What do you think?
Some quick context:
I was inspired to build this by this HN post earlier today [1]. Thought this would take me 1-2 hours to build, ended up taking about 6 hours - engineering estimates and all!
The dataset has 2,231,142 recipes and is indexed on Typesense [2], an open source alternative to Algolia that a friend and I are working on.
The UI was built using the Typesense adapter for InstantSearch.js [3] and is a static site bundled using ParcelJS.
The app is hosted on S3, with CloudFront for a CDN.
The search backend is powered by a geo-distributed 3-node Typesense cluster running on Typesense Cloud [4], with nodes in Oregon, Frankfurt and Mumbai.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25356156
[2] https://github.com/typesense/typesense
[3] https://github.com/typesense/typesense-instantsearch-adapter
[4] https://cloud.typesense.org