Fun+Cooker+Proposal

Fun Cooker Proposal

Matt Orlove - matt at umd dot edu Chris Carmel - chris.carmel at gmail dot com Jen Gorski - jgorski18 at gmail dot com

We are planning on making a cooking website. Users can upload their own recipes and interact with each other in many ways. Uploaded recipes can be shared, rated, and commented on between users. There will be search options as well - recipes can be found by recipe title, by user, or by ingredient(s). Expanding on that, we will allow users to enter in what they have in their fridge/pantry and, from the items they have available, possible recipes will be suggested. Additionally, we will have recipes grouped in different sections to aid users with their browsing (examples - Top Rated, Most Popular, Healthy Eats, 15 Minutes or Less, etc).

Our target users are younger adults (18-25 year olds). Cooking and recipe websites are pretty universally relevant (especially for adults) so I'm sure the website would appeal to other users but we see the ability to enter in the food you have available and having recipes returned appealing to college students and newly independent adults - basically anybody who hasn't had much experience cooking yet. In the end, however, we want to offer a simple, easy to use interface that will make sharing and finding recipes fun for anyone.