Github for Recipes

🍲 Github for Recipes

Git in My Belly

Available Domain: Gitgrub.ai

The Problem: Recipes online are a mess. You’ve got endless food blogs with 17 paragraphs of backstory before you even get to the ingredients. No standardized format, no easy way to version, remix, or track tweaks. And good luck trying to collaborate or credit your grandma’s chili tweaks to a stranger’s vegan version. According to Google, 1 in 4 internet users searches for recipes every single day. Meanwhile, recipe sharing remains stuck in the static Web 1.0 era.

The Solution:

In a line: A collaborative, version-controlled platform for recipes, like GitHub, but for your favorite meals.
Product:
- 📝 Users sign up and get a personal recipe “repo” with a clean, standardized template (ingredients, steps, tags, and notes).
- 🍝 Recipes can be “forked,” allowing others to remix versions with substitutions, dietary tweaks, or regional spins.
- 👯 Social features like following chefs, pull requests (aka recipe tweaks), and collaborative cooking threads.
- 🔍 Searchable, filterable library of community-tested recipes with commit histories, comments, and cooking tips.
Business Model: Freemium model: free for casual users, paid Pro tier for creators with analytics, recipe monetization tools, and branded collabs.
End Goal: Sell to a food media company (like Food52, NYT Cooking) or a social platform expanding into cooking (Pinterest, TikTok) for a 5-10x revenue multiple.