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maxunvsvanilla-cookbook

Two self-hosted projects, compared on the numbers selfhost.directory tracks live: score, popularity, release cadence and setup effort.

maxunvanilla-cookbook
Score74/10046/100
Rank in category#4 of 16 in Web Scraping#13 of 18 in Recipe Management
GitHub stars18 079158
Stars, last 30 days+518+0
Stable releases, 12 months1713
Latest releasev0.1.0 · 25 Oct 2026v1.6.1 · 28 Oct 2026
SetupModerateEasy
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseAGPL-3.0GPL-3.0
Main languageTypescriptJavaScript

Which one should you pick?

maxun scores 74/100 against 46/100 for vanilla-cookbook, so it is the safer default.

maxun ships more often: 17 stable releases in the past year, against 13 for vanilla-cookbook.

If you want the quickest setup, vanilla-cookbook is easier to run; maxun needs more configuration.

maxun is growing faster right now (+518 stars in 30 days).

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