[thebricklayr]

Wow, this is awesome! Your layout, subtle dividers, and serifed font really come together perfectly.

At the moment, Umami's scraping is done server-side. I'd really like to speed it up, so I'm going to start working on a 100% client scraper soon (for the native apps & browser extensions; the web version will always have cross-domain browser restrictions though).

[samldev]

Umami looks great, I just sent it to my wife who just uses Apple notes for recipes right now. I’m curious, how can you offer it for free while having server side processing / syncing etc?

[thebricklayr]

It's few enough users right now that I can cover the couple bucks per month in server costs. If more people start to use it, I'll make it paid (either upfront or subscription, not sure yet), but I'll grandfather all existing users as free.

[scary-size]

Interesting, does the server fetch the html itself? Or does the client POST it? The letter would be useful for paywalled sites like Cook‘s Illustrated. I spent quite some time on ingredient labelling (what’s a unit, quantity etc.). Feel free to ping at hn[at]franz.hamburg

[thebricklayr]

> does the server fetch the html itself?

Yep, the client just sends the recipe URL and then the server fetches the HTML. Agreed, it would be better to have the client send the HTML for paywalled sites, which is another reason I just want to do it all on the client.

> I spent quite some time on ingredient labelling (what’s a unit, quantity etc.)

I can relate to you there. It was a long process of trial and error for me to get right, and there are still plenty of edge cases left to handle. Long-term I think AI + NLP will make this kind of thing easier, but for me it wasn't fast, reliable, cheap, or portable enough to run in an iOS app in real time quite yet.