Comments on: KitchenBug Brings the Ultimate Social Recipe Application, 1000 invitations

By: Elisa

Elisa — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 06:02:26 +0000

What a great use for a social networking site. Personally, I’m getting tired of the OpenFace/Facebook wars. ( http://www.inte...p;doc_id=137979 )

By: Ofir

Ofir — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 16:08:20 +0000

Well – it only took a very short time since we launched and received this great coverage on TechCrunch to max out our open 1,000 user invitation. We are overwhelmed with the response we’ve been having since, and are happy to welcome all of you new users to enjoy and experience KitchenBug. However, we are now closing our doors for a while, and will focus on working with our beta users for our grand opening.

We do, however, accept requests; if you wish to join, just leave your email address on our home page. We will send out invitation batches in a more controlled fashion, and we promise that every request will be answered. Here’s the link:

http://www.kitchenbug.com/

We’d like to thank all of you who have registered, and hope to see you use KitchenBug and share recipes. Also, we hope to get as much feedback as possible and use it for our next rollout.

Also, we’ll be adding more exciting features real soon, so stay tuned!

By: ahopen78

ahopen78 — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 00:08:21 +0000

Attn: duhmoment

I do not appreciate you trying to steal my peeled banana recipe.
Just because i beat you in the chili cook off in ‘89 does not mean you need to hold a grudge.

By: Ouriel Ohayon

Ouriel Ohayon — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 06:02:05 +0000

jimbo the only biais you will find on techcrunch is related to what we really want to write about and not the location of the company

By: yongfook

yongfook — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 04:45:16 +0000

There’s more and more competition in this space. I think kitchenbug looks like a nice service, but it’s frustrating to see it get such a positive review when others in this space (including me) offer basically the same functionality. Technology for technology’s sake shouldn’t be applauded either – why does an amateur or professional cook need their recipe dotted with links explaining what a tomato or bell pepper is? Yes, the regex behind that must be somewhat impressive, but is it actually necessary?

I asked myself a lot of these questions in creating OSF – you can add functionality up to the eyeballs in these niche social networks, but at the end of the day is much of it actually needed? Sometimes the basics work very nicely.

Anyway I’m off to cook some sour grapes.

By: Josh Owens

Josh Owens — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 01:38:15 +0000

You guys should check out our winning application from Rails Rumble. It is called Tasty Planner. It offers grocery shopping list integration on top of favorite recipe saving, easy recipe input methods, and recipe ratings/comments. We have a new version coming out that has a popularity ranking, better search, s3 picture integration, etc.

By: Alice

Alice — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 01:11:09 +0000

After reading all the post here I still like bakespace.com. It seems to have recipes that other sites don’t have and its easy to use. I like their news letters and how friendly everyone seems, like a community. Bakespace.com seems to know what foodies like. They have that new Tv show Pie Hole on ABC on their site and its cool that they have this hollywood connection. kitchen bug is a cute site and hope it does well but if I was to the pick the best site for recipes on the net bakespace.com would get my vote.

By: Steve Murch

Steve Murch — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 01:09:14 +0000

>> maybe it’s because there are not in SV

BigOven.com is based in Seattle

By: Steve Ballmer

Steve Ballmer — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 00:37:39 +0000

Good idea, I’m gonna have the NtN’s add it to FaceBook!
(Nasal toned Nerds)

http://fakestev...er.blogspot.com

By: duhmoment

duhmoment — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 21:49:53 +0000

http://www.kitc...643/1025359769/

I’ve added my first recipe! For years I’ve been waiting for a good distribution platform to share some recipes that have been passed down 9 generations in my family. I am hoping they will do some rev share on any ads they decide to include in the future.

By: jimbo

jimbo — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 21:22:46 +0000

There is also familyoven and many more…in general I feel TC biases Israeli companies, maybe it’s because there are not in SV.

By: Steve Murch

Steve Murch — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 20:37:39 +0000

BigOven.com (http://www.bigoven.com) also allows anyone to post their recipes online, and has its own 1,000+ custom-written ingredient dictionary that is automatically hyperlinked when users post to the archive. In this way, you can drill down and get buying tips, storage tips, history, lore, etc. for the ingredients in your recipe.

We just released BigOven video, allowing users to post their own cooking shows to the Internet. Like Kitchenbug, BigOven lets you tag recipes, rate recipes, and post photos online. With over 60,000 registered users, it also probably deserves mention in the social networking-about-food category. Thanks!

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 19:20:29 +0000

Hooray, it works in Internet Explorer, what a great site.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 19:18:51 +0000

Here’s what I get after entering my info:

“The page you requested was not found.”

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 19:17:22 +0000

Signing up didn’t work for me, anyone else?

By: Salem

Salem — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 19:10:36 +0000

Has no one ever heard of getting the cooking bug? I thought it was common. Kitchenbug seems like a great name to me.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 18:58:28 +0000

“This is a hugely saturated vertical with most all the real players being a decade old. Allrecipes, epicurious, foodnetwork (and soon even marthastewart.com) have social networks built in…”

I agree – this market is booming with content, but with nothing real that glues it all together. It is my feeling that these apps such as group-recipes and kitchen-bug are trying to fill this void somehow.

By: Lux

Lux — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 17:32:20 +0000

And then there’s us weirdos who just throw a copy of WordPress on the web and use that as a recipe dump.

By: mike

mike — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 17:21:35 +0000

I’m not saying I disagree with you. I wouldn’t have named it that.

By: mint question

mint question — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 17:16:58 +0000

”

Seems like an odd choice of names, but you never know how it’ll work out…in 3 years, we could realize that it was pure genius in naming the company KitchenBug.”

Don’t know about that one… website CONCEPTS can go from being questionable to genius, but a bad name doesn’t stop being a bad name..

By: bob w

bob w — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 16:52:33 +0000

This is a hugely saturated vertical with most all the real players being a decade old. Allrecipes, epicurious, foodnetwork (and soon even marthastewart.com) have social networks built in.

I personally frequent chowhound for good local discussion. Grouprecipes looks to be pretty good though.

At the end of the day none of these little guys stand a chance.

By: ventureblogalist

ventureblogalist — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 16:47:11 +0000

also there is chowhound and recipezaar, both were recently acquired.

By: Jarrod

Jarrod — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 16:38:26 +0000

Tristan, I hate that argument about bakespace. Every time someone brings them up, somebody comes on here and blasts them for purchasing a DIY social network kit, and not hand coding it like the blog readers say you should. You don’t like it, but I am willing to guess that you aren’t a middle-aged, stay-at-home mom, which is their target audience. If these “ready made” codesets for social networks were so shameful, then why did tech crunch devote time posting about them all :

http://www.tech...social-network/

By: mike

mike — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 16:34:36 +0000

Thanks for the eloquent compare/contrast.

By: Tristan

Tristan — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 16:26:18 +0000

Um, yeah if you think Bakespace is like Grouprecipes you need to get your head checked. Bakespace looks like it was made off one of those $99 social networks you buy on hotscripts.

Here is a comparison of all 3 food social networks:

http://siteanal....com/?metric=uv