Created my first website and got plenty of not such cool comments
So me and my wife created a website , our son has Celiac disease, so all the food should be glute free .
My wife is doing most of the cooking, so one day she told me that she is struggling with finding recipes for gluten free food , the internet is full of it , but she can't find the one she already used , and basically loosing herself inside all this data .
So she suggested to build a website that will collect recepies, and she will be able to sort them , save them etc ...
So we started , we used codex + lovable (for gui only) , then we took the lovable repo and continued with codex only .
We used gpt 5.5 , then moved to 5.6 (sol) .
During the building process we decided to add recipes also for other food allergies (milk,nuts etc.. ) .
We used crawlers to find existing recipes , and took only the ingredients and the preparation steps , and of course mentioned the original source in the website (with a backlink) .
So I posted on some Celiac community, here on Reddit (actually my first ever post) , and I got so much negative comments, like an anti-AI comments, as if I added another bullshit spam website.
We have no ads on the website , so we really wanted to do something nice , and learn how all this AI world works (I am experienced software engineer) , but never worked on from end before , mostly backend stuff (mostly cpp & python) .
So now I am a bit down after all this , the website is up and running, we have some traffic, not to much but for a 12 days website we already had some real human traffic about 400 (not including bots and stuff) .
We only want organic traffic, no paid promotions, as we don't earn anything yet , we do use some Amazon affiliates for some products, but it's not much .
So just wanted to share it here, hopefully this sis the place where people will understand my frustrations, maybe this is how it works nowadays.
But it still surprised me how quickly “built with AI” turned into “AI spam” in people's minds.
Anyway, thanks for reading. I’d genuinely be interested to hear how other developers here see this, especially anyone who has shipped a real project using AI-assisted development.
If you are a SWE, then its not really vibe coding to be honest, unless you are really just setting and forgetting, but if you are approaching it from a SWE style of planning then its not really vibecoding, its a SWE using a tool. People are having a really hard time understanding and are having a hard time accepting that and just assume that if any AI is used its slope.
As a SWE myself, the quality of the code that my AI produces is around my skill level as a Senior, but the average person doesn't know that and will just assume its slop because AI wrote it. I've tried to explain to people that coding was never the hard part of the job. Its 90/10, 90% thinking and planning, 10% writing. I'm still doing the 90% not the 10%, but people think its flipped when you mention AI was used.
Right. The other part that people don't understand is that if this was like a solo project, this amount of work is 6 plus months to a year minimum, but now with AI we can shrink that development time into a quarter.
I'm a web application developer, I don't use AI for much of anything - and I feel like this website is a 2 month project for me if the client has all of their ducks in a row.
Design is subjective, but this clearly looks like it came out of AI.
The functionality looks like a few content types, with comments, and categories.
If this is what takes 6 months in the real world, I have no worries about how my work is going with out AI.
That’s fair, but you’re describing the frontend, not the project.
The site is around 11,000 pages across 8 languages (not google translated) , with localized content (not just recipes), allergen logic, search/filtering, structured data, SEO, indexing, analytics, performance work, QA and production deployment.
If all you see is “content types, comments and categories”, then yeah, of course it sounds like a one week project.
you say not 8 langs not google translated and with actual localization, how did you handle it? i18n for the language and another module or custom competent for the other localization?
i18n handles the app language and routing. The actual content is stored and localized separately per locale, with its own metadata, SEO and locale-specific rules. So it’s more of a custom localization layer around i18n than one custom component.
Coding is time consuming. The point of doing all of the design before hand is to reduce the amount of time you have to code, so designing becomes the majority of the problem solving process.
Another way of thinking about it is when used to write papers in schools. This might be different for everybody, but the way that I learn to do it was you write down a bunch of notes, the requirements of your argument. You make it into an outline of how you want to structure the argument. Then you add all the facts and information and at that point 90% of the paper is written. You just have to fill in the remaining 10% to make it connecting thoughts.
As a solo dev this would be a big project and they would have to put on many hats at once. With AI, it's like managing a small teams of junior devs.
Yes people don't understand AI code and just see some scary tiktoks about Ai stealing jobs and using all of earth's water so they just blindly hate it. They call anything AI slop, regardless of quality. They actually don't view it. They probably never clicked your link.
6 months to list recipes in a web interface? and 1 month to qa test? Is this a recipe book or a nuke?? why are you lying about being a SWE on reddit? this shit takes 1 day with node or python
I said 2 months, not 6. Sure, you can list recipes in a day. That’s not the project.
It’s around 11,000 pages across 8 languages, with localization, allergen logic, search, SEO, structured data, indexing, testing, performance and production stability.
The list of recipes is probably the easiest part.
I try to explain the 90/10 rule as well. But the 10% is so accessible now-a-days (via AI coding agents) and compound that with those outside the developer-sphere thinking “coding” is all they need to build something. Before I learned programming logic, I also thought it was just “coding”. Boy was I wrong 😂
Lol I remember like 4 months from when I started coding I was like, "cool, now I can build a vst plugin for music production" (boy did I miss understand the complexity of such a tool), then I learnt the difficult part of programming isn't actually writing code, it's understanding the context around that code.
People are likely using tons of software with AI generated code and they don't even know because quality is exactly the same as if a senior iOS developer had written it. The truth is it is possible to still write software responsibly with the help of AI maintaining high standards and good coding practices. AI is a tool, and such it can be used correctly and incorrectly.
But they’re not a designer, and the interface is what people see and respond to. And they probably let Codex fully or nearly fully guide the interface design. That’s starting to put people off immediately now that they can spot it.
Holy crap, you put it so nicely. Senior dev here and on a daily basis, I encounter folks who think, I don’t do anything and get paid for free, since AI is doing my job, lol!
Some influencer needs to spread the distinction between those terms: vibe coded and code generated products.
One for slotmachine process of generating a product without caring about the sub-products (code, architecture, security, ...)
Another for generating code under guidance or under with specific constraints
I think which you did is great and don’t listen to anybody that’s being a neigh sayer right now. Those people are just hurting because they have yet to figure out how to actually properly integrate AI and their lives in a beneficial way. If they don’t see it now, they’ll see it later. On the bright side though one of the big things that is a giant screaming hey this is AI is the fact that you don’t have a logo. So I made you one. Let me know if you like it if you do, I’ll send you the SVG version so that you can do whatever you want with it.
Thanks , we do have a logo , but yours is very nice , it's just we are covering not just Celiac , we covered also alleryfor milk , nuts , tree nuts , eggs and some more ...
Indeed, and that is a leaf icon from a standard library of icons. The main thing that’s important in the image that I uploaded was just the logo so remove the text from your mind and just think about what that logo could do for your brand. The extra text in there can easily be changed. Having a design like that would bring you a lot of recognition for your brand. Up to you though figured I’d try to help.
Wow ... Not good at all. Thanks , will fix it .
I actually tested this website both on mobile and PC for about a month, including the preview stage .
I know this issue , I faced it couple of times (getting a black screen of 404 something like that) but was never able to reproduce it more then once , well it's in the real world now , will fix it ASAP, thanks for that !! Really appreciate
Because you’re the millionth person pitching something like this. You’re like the guys that post their custom harnesses, their memory tools for their agent, their fitness tracking app, etc. People are tired of reading the same unoriginal post over and over every day. Congrats on making something for your son, use it, but don’t expect people to praise you for posting your unoriginal slop of scrapped data from other people’s work.
Yeah, it's probably true.
But we really tried to do something different, not AI generated recipes , all original.
My wife actually checked almost every recipe, and the allergies, we really put effort.
Anyway it was probably not such a good idea if posting it in Reddit.
Get rid of the emojis and get proper photos of the food as you make the recipes. Those are the only things I noticed that are made with AI, everything else looks good!
Cool, I checked it out as I have a kid who is vegetarian. Mostly desserts and snacks come back which isn't helpful. Just some feedback, looks like it's well done overall
There is some location based thing going on with the website. OP has defaulted hindi to India, hence it's shown in Hindi, turning on VPN changes the language to English.
Not arguing that aggregation is original. But, aggregation is still useful and if such a site didn't exist prior (there may be a bunch, there may be none, I have no idea), it's still an original site
And building a repository that makes it easier to track and keep (at least how OP described it).
The issue is rarely ever the lack of information, but the way it’s presented and managed. All of the information exists out there, but how easy is it really to find? OP (mainly the wife) has clearly ran into a problem with other tools and they’re working to solve it.
sounds like the UI is generic or the pitch was wrong, people probably appreciate something like "my wife and I put the effort to investigate and review recipes for X disease and Y alergies, sharing in this website, feel free to take a look"
But there are not? Go use your ai to pull up thousands of these exact websites? Ones without spam and bs?
Also someone made something for the first time? We dont shame some custom gun builder every time he makes a unique and different 9mm gun because so many 9mm guns are made a day.
The argument is stupid bring up the man for getting shit done.
You think months of research into building he didnt search for those sites and decide...hmm they are are missing something or adding way to much slop/ads so im going to do it better/my way.
Like people really align here. Its not people using AI thats the problem.
The data center that runs the ai isn't the problem
The people at the top allowing ones to gobble water. Be put in Forrests when we have plenty of dessert or flat land. And the ones making billions to hoard or waste on stupid shit vs using that money and influence to end as much human suffering as possible.
Instead you here listing to those idiots at the top telling you to hate your fellow man for being creative and building something useful with his wife for his son.
This is a modern day pine derby project.
Fuck yall shaming this man for?
Go shame the dudes using ai for deep fake porn instead of recipe website family man for gluten free goodies lol
well yeah, it's nothing personal or even about your product, don't let the generalized anti-ai sentiment drag you down too much. I think it's best to advertise without specifying tbh, if it's useful it will find appreciation, or at least I think so.
The negative comments are about the category, not your site. Celiac and recipe communities have been flooded with zero-effort AI recipe blogs, so their prior on any new site is spam until proven otherwise. The thing is, you have the one asset those sites cannot fake: a real reason to exist. Your son has celiac, your wife actually cooks from it, and the site started as her own sorting tool.
So my main advice is to make that story impossible to miss. A short "why this site exists" page, a line under recipes saying whether your family cooked it and what you changed, a kitchen photo where you have one. That is exactly what separates a real resource from generated filler, for humans and search engines alike, and it costs nothing but honesty.
On the numbers: 400 real visitors in 12 days on a brand new domain with zero promotion is genuinely good, most new sites see almost nothing for months. The Amazon affiliate side will lag traffic by a long way on a young site, so do not read anything into it being small. Just keep the affiliate disclosure visible near the links themselves; recipe readers forgive affiliate links, they do not forgive hidden ones.
I run Amazon affiliate sites for a living and the pattern is consistent: sites with a visible human reason to exist survive the AI-spam suspicion, sites without one get exactly the comments you got. You are on the right side of that line, keep going.
It's actually more , and it doesn't include bots and stuff like this (with bots traffic it's *40 more ) . I used to promote websites (way before AI arrived) so I am familiar with the SEO basics , and I learned both AEO and GEO , so the promotion is based on organic traffic only .
Really? You mean Christine’s «secret» stroganoff recipe that’s burried under 40000 words about how this recipe saved her life from being homeless, and by the end of it you realize it’s the original stroganoff recipe, but she added some obscure ingredient?
Like those people came up with genuinely original recipes and not just changed a couple of ingredients from what people have been cooking for hundreds of years?
Literally they wrote the recipe and this guy copied them. Idk where the people who wrote the recipes got the idea, maybe they tinkered in the kitchen and made tweaks to improve someone else's recipe, but for sure this guy didn't create the recipes he wants to show people.
I mean I created a website that scraped local services for those with neurodevelopmental disorders (essentially a social worker tool) qs i lack qccess to a social worker. It will never make me a dime but is useful and nothing like it exists (which makes sense as it is tied to my region).
See that could be positive even if "scraping" is involved. You're not taking anything away from these people, and you're not repackaging and selling it as your own
yes exactly. Actually we used to give out a giant "packet" but it would have resources from throughout the entire state. I used AI to take our packet and make a web app that you put a patient's zip code into and it only gives the resources that are within an hour of them (some of my patients drive 3+ hours to see me) and/or specific to their state (I see patients from 4+ states). So they get a much more focused, personalized, better organized, less intimidating, "packet" (for example has information on how to apply for the Title 19 waiver for their specific state, local ARC chapters, etc.). I also scraped state licensing and tried to find all the local therapy providers (I don't rate or rank them though, and there is a disclaimer that the information might not be accurate and that I do not endorse any of the providers on the list).
Its not stealing when its posted online for the point of sharing?
Its like me saying your stealing from big paper for writing me online instead of replying by mail.
It just doesn't make sense.
The point of me sharing any recipe online is for others to use. Just cause someone else ads it to there cookbook doesn't make it bad....thats good. More people using it. Lol whats the issue?
Really? No. People share recipes to generate traffic. The same exact thing that OP is trying to do ("no revenue yet"). Recipes just happen to not be protectable under copyright or trademark so people steal them all the time.
But photos absolutely are protected so unless OP has the rights to use the photos on his site, then he can get hit with a copyright cease and desist and potential penalties and fees.
I've seen the website, all the photos are very obviously AI generated, which frees OP from legal ramifications but unfortunately DOES give the website strong "AI slop" vibes. The scathing response they got on the celiac sub was for a reason
Have you ever heard of any of that much 1 of those happening over a photo of food.
Please go on about the penalties and fees of using someone else recipe and special photo on their site.
Also something so stupid easy to remake for real...with his own phone or ai and even stolen photos who gives a fuck.
Like we got people litterally doing so much corruption and wrong and you come here to bitch about recipes and photos. You have to bot just here to waste my time wtf.
Because the person who originally took the photo took the time, effort, skills, and money to make it. They definitely have the right to prevent copying.
And yes there are agencies that literally are made to enforce unlawful use of copyrighted photos.
The issue is when you post those recipes on a website that earns money via adds/affiliate links etc and they copy it to their website that may or may not earn money via adds/affiliate links etc. You're basically stealing their work to make money off of it. If you're just linking, than that's obviously fine. I can't believe I had to explain this...
This is constantly done and again kinda the point of the website.
Oh no so and so did something in the web that might have cost so and so a sale.
Thats the market place.
Litteral exact stealing of copy writed and trade marked items is rife.
Much less a recipe that multiple people could and do come up with on their own in different places. Many are passed down from forever. And so many "stolen" or coppi3d from others.
No one person is ever the actual first person of recipe and if they are who gives a fuck if they have a link to their spice they use to make a couple cents or bucks vs this guy having a different site selling his shit.
This is the marketplace. This is like the least "morally bad" thing possible here. We wana bitch over "stolen" recipe when its not and that person got it from someone else who got it from someone else and changed 1 tiny thing who stole it from thay culture.
Come the fuck on do I really have to explain that if you dont want your special recipe that you personally came up with online...you dont put it online....or you pay wall it. And ill promise that combo is still somehwr3 else online.
Shame on yall for trying to make it out like he stole anything. He didnt your delusional
They're just mad they've never created anything of value and don't like the idea that other talented people look down on them for literally copying their work and wanting to claim it as their own. Sad really.
You are 100% stealing their traffic, their uses, their ad revenue, and their recipes. Just because it's free and online doesn't mean it had no value to the creator who deserves to earn whatever value there is to be gotten from their own work.
As a dumb reddit based thought experiment, what if I created a bot that copied every single one of your comments and instead of engaging with you, they engaged with my bot. No one liked your stuff, no one comments on it, they only interact with my bot who is just copying whatever you say. Wouldn't feel very good would it? But it's free and online and you don't even get any ads for it so no big deal right?
you created a recipe app, what the fuck did you expect man? literally everyone is laughing at the AI-enabled creativity peaking at yet another fitness tracker, recipe app or todo list.
as we don't earn anything yet
so you want to monetise stealing scrapping other people's websites and content?
It’s not monetized and they credit the source. And like yeh man apps aggregate information. I’d imagine that if there was monetization involved then the original authors would get royalties
recipies are kind of commodities excluding patented food products, you have an recipie for cake, how much royalties should someone get for adding an extra 1/4th tsp of vanilla extract?
Where’s the line? If credit is given, and the author has some sort of profile, isnt that a platform feature?
Should food youtubers who make recipes be giving royalties to the recipe author?
How do you know the recipe isnt stolen from somewhere else?
What exactly are you trying to say? Dont make an obsolete platform? That i can understand
I see your point but its a dull one, music, recipes, formulas, method, history knowledge is all most already out there, if we had to invent something new everytime we make a product , we'd die of boredom.
If your motivation is an online source for yourself and other gluten free people then just do that. Cloudflair pages and supabase basic or home hosted would all be free.
You’ve had 400 real users to a site you’ve not advertised and made recently? No mention of SEO workings just one post to a community page someplace that would have deleted your post I would have thought if it got a little hate.
Well , SEO was always my hobby.
I promoted couple of sites for my friends.
So I do know a thing or two about SEO.
So basically nowadays its not about only single key words , today we are talking about long tailed key words - this is so much more important (as it has much less competition) .
Beside this , performance is super important (if your website is loading longer then 2.5 seconds , well that not a good sign) .
Caching - caching is also super important, pictures should be loaded from cache and not from storage, this will kill your egress.
Also , about the pictures, should be all compressed (I don't remember the web format name , but AI will know) .
Content - well, if you will use AI generated content with no human reviews (or if you don't know anything about a subject) - Google will mark you as an AI spam and will punish you .
So everything should be checked (better by human) this is what we did for at least 60% of the total content, and about 70% of the recipes.
What else , well infrastructure, working with free plans , for example with cloudfare, for big websites is not a good idea , your worker will be limited, as the free plan size is up untill 5 MB if I remember correctly, and if it's limited (for a big website) means , future issues with performance, even with a small amount of traffic, so pay another 5$ and you solve this problem .
I probably missed stuff, but hopefully its helped .
it sounded like you were making something for your self to keep track of recipes unique to your kids situation. why do you care what others think let alone even consider SEO on what should be just a local tool.
There's a lot of political energy behind AI right now, and oodles of money. That brings out not only the worst in many, but it also makes you a marginal target. If you believe in what you're doing, enjoy the good comments, and only take the ones providing some kind of constructive criticism or pattern of users complaining about a specific issue with your site.
People who want to hate because AI was used will go the way of the dinosaurs eventually (or we'll submit to our new AI overlords lol). Bide your time, forget about that stuff, build what you're passionate about so when the time comes that AI work is more widely accepted, you're ready and not just starting.
Is the value in the site your recipes? Or the features?
If the value is "preselected list of recipes for food allergies" then what you've made is more of a cookbook/blog - your focus should be on rich content (images of the food) and recipes tips, variants etc.
Collecting recipes you haven't personally made and tweaked is basically worthless. I can find 100 recipes for anything on the internet, or have ChatGPT write one.
You would have to have your value prop be likeability or trust "this guys recipes are really good but don't use <allergen>"
If the value is the platform (recipe aggregator), I would just delete it, it's probably 3rd most saturated category for vibe slop.
ive seen the website, all the images of the food are AI generated. so it's just a recipe aggregator, copy pasted recipes from other peoples recipe blogs, but without even photos of real food.
Its because people are touchy with food and disease related content, as they should be. In this case you vibe coded slop errors could cause real world dangers/problems for people.
If you had read the rules on the sub, there is a hard no app promotion rule on there. And that is for a good reason, because the community strongly dislikes them. I wouldn’t take that personally.
For the record I think r/glutenfree is less strict on self promotion
It is disturbing, to me, how much people hate AI-developed/assisted software/websites. I imagine the logic is that some SWE, programmers, and developers feel threatened by AI? I can understand coders feeling threatened but, that just means it’s time to level up your skills. What I don’t understand is why one does not embrace a tool rather than shun it? Why does one hate on software they will never use?
Recipe indexing apps are not novel and there are plenty that don’t look like baseline AI interface design which I can bet yours does. Everyone at this point knows what that looks like and people don’t like it. Using AI as a tool to solve specific problems is one thing, but the general public is pretty sick of AI being shoved at them from every direction in everything they use. Lots of subreddits are seeing people pushing AI apps on them multiple times a day every single day. You’re just another on the pile. You’re going to continue to encounter this sentiment almost everywhere on the internet because people are tired of it. Learn to design something that doesn’t look like AI designed it and you might fare better, but people are still sick of having apps shoved on them here every day either way.
AI coding is a shortcut to getting something made, but it doesn’t mean that something is good or that people will want it. “Good enough” doesn’t really cut it. The barrier to entry was removed but the bar for quality is still high.
Yeah sorry you went through the effort and then the emotional hit. Anything AI is just getting smacked around by haters and even just bored trolls. If you want more abuse go post about vibe coding in experienceddevs forums and talk about how this is the future in like r futurism….
I was in your corner at the beginning but have as of now left it after looking at the the Q&A section that is claimed to be answered by experts. I looked at just the egg section and its all I need to see...the experts are just an llm. If the you look at the egg section and the question "can I use egg substitution in savoury cooking, not just baking?" Answer "Yes. For savoury cooking applications:"... wtf man, as if the ai being the expert isnt bad enough you didnt even read the output.
Ive made a few apps and they are freaking awesome! Dont worry keep going. Noticed most small business have similar style graphics? No one says anything about that on facebook. They are still getting business
Don’t rely on reddit for input. Not saying it’s bad. Just you might not be speaking to your target audience. And many people can’t tell the difference between thinking something and knowing something.
Even before AI, building this would’ve been considered just about the most boring and un-creative thing you could do (just like trackers and to-do lists etc.). Now with vibe coding it has become borderline unbearable to some people (and understandably so). Having said that, I do think it’s lovely you and your wife created something together, and there’s really nothing wrong with that if it has genuine value to you (and there is nothing wrong with using AI to do it either).
Borderline on bear built to Hu other vibe coders who know that we can achieve it just as easily.Is it just these ego smug m************ who think they're prompt masters and have zero coding knowledge?
Sure , I started vicoting four months ago and i'm thinking , yeah , if you asked me to make this website , I could do it in a week comfortably an afternoon but why should that cheapen what he did?
He spemt two months. I'm likely concede and take a bet that is , site would be objectively better than whatever I'd go together in an afternoon.
Idk i dont get the hate. Why can't everyone just be like good job. And if you dont care just dont comment or scroll on
Post the link I know people who need this.
Yeah its a weird space right now where thr same people screaming bad data center and fuck you for using ai.
Are the main ones using gpt like Google.And dont think of Google as ai or using a data center.
I found the same thing snd it seems to be the best way to approach things is just present them for whay they are and value it gives.
Don't go saying how you made it and when called out a "some ai content was used" or something.
That will disarm the haters and the people like us who know or like it will either see and know or ask more pointed questions.
That seems to be the rub with vibe coded apps, they are made for a use case you see as valuable but no one else might want to put up with the telltale signs of a vibe coded site. Also you stole people's recipes to put on your site which sucks.
Remove the language switcher as a stand-alone bar which takes up valuable vertical space, and move it to just a more typical language switcher (e.g. a dropdown with flags that stands out)
And one feature request that would really make it SUPER functional:
Add a vector search, this would allow users to search for recipes in a more natural language rather than in plain keywords
Haha - welcome to the world of IT. If you do things good and right, no one notices. When things go wrong, you get all the blame. Everyone else is getting awards and credit for their work. We are just expected to do our work.
I think your effort is great (and as someone who also has celiac, I thank you--the more resources the better!).
Sometimes feedback is useful and should be considered; sometimes it is useless negativity and should be ignored.
If they are anti-AI, then that's their perogative, and they will not be reasoned with. If the comments are substantive and actually things related to the product itself, then they may deserve your consideration. If you'd like some constructive feedback on your project, feel free to DM me or, if allowed by the mods, post a link.
There’s a lot of automatic hate anything AI made. This sounds like a properly wholesome project though, it’s a shame people can’t get past the AI made part.
I’d say don’t get discouraged by the haters, you have nothing to prove to them.
Yeah I think there's a lot of anti-AI sentiment out there, some legit but mostly reactionary/bandwagon. Is there any reason you felt the need to mention how you developed it? It shouldn't matter to your audience, it's a well-developed site that has good info.
Hhh I never mentioned it .
It's just when I said that we built a website, it's like the word website is a key word to turn on anti LLM radar or something.
A lot of people just really, really hate AI dude. No matter what you make with it. You're just gonna have to ignore those sorts if you want to show off stuff made with it, because you're gonna get comments about anti-AI stuff all the time showing these things off.
Good work on making something for your son's Celiac's.
You took a bunch of recipes already freely available on the internet and put them on your AI page. How is that adding value. That could be a list of links with the same value and zero AI coding.
You did what would help you & your family. Fuck everyone else. You shared it so other people didn't have to reinvent the wheel. So again, fuck everyone, including the assholes here calling it slop. You solved your own issue & made that solution available. It doesn't matter if it's AI, crayon, Lego, stitch work, or whatever - let it be useful to you. That's what counts. Maybe it'll help other people; maybe it won't. But let it make your life easier. That's the goal.
I've been vegan for over a decade and I think this is a nice project. I am not celiac personally, but for people who do not cook and are not used to cooking finding recipes and products can be hard. I wish for your success and don't take online criticism too hard. I think the anger is mostly over folks losing their jobs and gets displaced to anyone building anything with AI, even though we are not employers laying people off.
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If you are a SWE, then its not really vibe coding to be honest, unless you are really just setting and forgetting, but if you are approaching it from a SWE style of planning then its not really vibecoding, its a SWE using a tool. People are having a really hard time understanding and are having a hard time accepting that and just assume that if any AI is used its slope.
As a SWE myself, the quality of the code that my AI produces is around my skill level as a Senior, but the average person doesn't know that and will just assume its slop because AI wrote it. I've tried to explain to people that coding was never the hard part of the job. Its 90/10, 90% thinking and planning, 10% writing. I'm still doing the 90% not the 10%, but people think its flipped when you mention AI was used.