Recipe Collection Portability After Yummly Data Loss Crisis
When Yummly shut down, users could only export recipes one at a time. Thousands lost years of saved collections overnight. There is no standard format for recipe data and no tool that imports from one platform and exports to another. Every recipe app is a data silo. Users want a personal recipe vault they own, with importers for every major platform.
The JSON-LD Recipe schema (schema.org/Recipe) already exists as a web standard. Build an app that stores recipes in this format locally, with importers that scrape from Paprika's export, Plan to Eat's format, and any URL with schema.org markup. The moat is the importer library. Every time a recipe app dies or raises prices, you get a wave of new users.
landscape (4 existing solutions)
Every recipe app is a data silo. Tandoor proves self-hosted portability works but demands technical setup. The Yummly crisis proved that cloud recipe collections can vanish overnight. Nobody has built a consumer-friendly recipe vault with universal importers (Paprika, Mealime, AllRecipes, Samsung Food) and standard export formats (JSON-LD Recipe schema, PDF, plain text).