Social cooking app designed with food waste in mind
savori is a social cooking app with emphasis on reducing food waste. In your shared household you manage everything around food: recipes, meal plan and ingredients. In the social part of the app you share what you cook and see what others have been cooking.
We’ve all heard we should reduce our food waste but often times our day gets in the way. We overbuy, we forget and ultimately have to throw out food. That’s why I built savori. savori tracks what ingredients you have at home and puts them dead center. It’s like a shopping list but the other way around: it’s an un-shopping list. But it’s more than that!
Your household is shared with all members of your household. This way all members of your household are always aware what’s in your fridge - even on the go (while shopping). You share a common meal plan, that everbody contributes to and all your recipes are shared as well (bookmarked ones and custom ones).
The social part of the app is where you share what you cook to inspire others and be inspired by others. Whether it’s from an existing recipe or it’s something you improvised, sharing what you made lets you mark ingredients as used up, which keeps your pantry up to date and saves your favorite creations for later! Win-win!
Sometimes, we are stuck with an ingredient left over from some other recipe and have no idea what to do with it. For these situations, savori’s smart recipe search has got your back. Not only does it find recipes based on specific ingredients, it also takes all your other ingredients into account. Best case it finds you a recipe you’ve got all ingredients for!
savori is live in the English and German speaking app stores. I’m a solo developer/entrepreneur, however, I had some help with the branding, design and communication by the very talented Saskia Schmidt and Christian Perner from Studio TipTop and Katharina Zimmermann from Kommunikatzion.
As far as monetization goes, savori is currently completely free and ad free. I would like to keep it ad free if possible, however, I could imagine partnering with food brands and cookbook publishers at some point. As a first step, I would like to introduce voluntary subscriptions, though.
I’ve built savori with an MVP mindset, so please understand that not everything is working as it should at some point. But this is where you come in. I would love to hear from you how savori fits into your life (or doesn’t! please be honest!). The main hypotheses I am trying to validate currently are, whether users are willing to keep their pantry up to date, whether they are entering their recipes and fill their meal plan, and finally whether the social part is able to tie all that together to make it sticky. So please let me know what you think!
About savori on Product Hunt
“Social cooking app designed with food waste in mind”
savori launched on Product Hunt on May 15th, 2023 and earned 102 upvotes and 26 comments, placing #11 on the daily leaderboard. savori is a social cooking app with emphasis on reducing food waste. In your shared household you manage everything around food: recipes, meal plan and ingredients. In the social part of the app you share what you cook and see what others have been cooking.
On the analytics side, savori competes within Android, iOS, Home, User Experience, Social Network and Food & Drink — topics that collectively have 754.8k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how savori performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted savori?
savori was hunted by Tim Oberhauser. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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