Stick a fork in recipe sharing sites
So I’m riding BART into work this morning (coming from a work meeting deep in the East Bay), and I have this idea for a recipe sharing site, you know, one of those web 2.0, social-networking thingamajigs. Here’s how I imagined it would work.
First, I enter a few of my favorite recipes in (just like Instructables). Then I friend/invite people I know so I can easily browse the recipes just in my network (even though all recipes are www-readable). If I want, I can add their recipes to my own “recipe box.” All ingredients should become tags (just like Flickr) so I can explore recipes by ingredient. I started imagining a universal inventory of all possible ingredients with professionally designed icons for each (a la Silk). I hoped to emphasize whole-food ingredients, as opposed to processed stuff.
Anyway, it turns out this space has been done. A quick Google search for “recipe sharing” turned up more than a handful of polished, promising sites: BakeSpace, Dishbase, We Eatt, RecipeThing, Tasty Planner, WeGottaEat.com, cookskills, Recipezaar, noshninjas…
OMFG, there’s even a Recipe Sharing Protocol Specification and two markup languages, Recipe Sharing Protocol Markup Language (RSPML) and RecipeBook XML! People.
I guess I have to ask, does the world need another recipe sharing website?
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Hi – This is Babette from BakeSpace. Thanks for mentioning us in your post. While we agree that there are already a lot of sites out there, who knows you might think of something new. :) Give it a try. Perhaps this will inspire you to listen to your entrepreneurial spirit since it’s on the right track. Just read your “about” section and as I recall.. you mention that you come up with ideas and then see them blogged about. See, it’s true! Great “about” section by the way. I love the never wear shirts that expose my shoulders comment. – Babette (@bakespace)