What can you use the application for?
Kitchenbug is designed to work as an online cookbook that allows its users to create and share recipes with their friends and family in a seamless manner. Kitchenbug also provides and excellent platform to share one’s cooking experience and passion with others. It allows the user to create and manage all the original recipes at one centralized place which would help him to track the whole stuff from anywhere with the help of Internet. It also facilitates its users in getting comments about the recipes managed in the list from any person who tries them. Besides this, one can also keep an eye on the recipes and activities of friends on Kitchenbug. To add different recipes on Kitchenbug’s profile, a user can directly put them from his personal computer. One can also add up a web link to the recipes. A unique thing about Kitchenbug is that it can also suggest ingredients related to the recipes. The site is presently in Beta stage and is continuously adding up great features to make it a hit. The site also has a video section where users can watch the demonstration of how to go through with cooking great dishes. The site is an effective place to keep ones old traditional heritage of unique recipes and cooking diligence safe and making sure that the invaluable legacy is passed from one generation to another.
What is the history and popularity of the application?
Kitchenbug is an Israel based company and is presently self-funded. The site was launched on the first noon of the month of November 2007 by Ofir Sahar who personally has a great amount of passion and love for cooking in him.
What are the differences to other applications?
The site is equipped with some great features which might be a differentiating factor that it claims to have and can give a potential edge to the site over its other online competitors. The automatic link detection feature to add up links to the recipes and smart suggestions generator for ingredients of recipes are some of the unique features which the site boasts of.
How does the application look and feel to use?
The visuals of the site are very attractive and have a shiny appearance. This makes one take interest in browsing through the pages of the site. The site is pretty clean as the information is properly placed on the site. The space has been appropriately utilized and the food pictures just add to the glory of the site. Many of the images placed on the site are stylishly taken and are enough to stimulate ones digestive enzymes. The logo of the site goes very well with the name. It consists of ‘Kitchenbug’ written in black and red. A similar color combination is used for the bug shown on the left side of the text. The site also has a section which displays different famous quotes on fooding and cooking on the home page itself emphasizing the importance of food in one’s life.
How does the registration process work?
The site is presently not open to public and a user cannot directly sign up to be a member. The site is in private Beta and had released only 1000 invitations for Techcrunch readers. In a short span of time the site received a great response from the Techcrunch readers and it is fully booked. But the site is accepting the requests of new users for joining the site with an assurance that the site will send an invitation to them the moment they open for the public.
What does it cost to use the application?
Kitchenbug is presently overbooked and the site has not yet worked out any pricing strategies to charge its users for availing its services. No advertisement is displayed on the site but it may look for the option in the coming future.
Who would you recommend the application to?
The website is a delightful place and encourages all those who are interested in writing and love to share their recipes with others. It is an online storage platform for the favorite, unique and traditional recipes and can be recommended to the persons who love to cook food especially the housewives and who have a number of kitchen stuff to share with the rest of the world.
