How to Share Recipes with Foodily
We break bread with our family and friends, socialize over business dinners, family potlucks, and nachos at football games, and now we can share recipes with Foodily. Finally we can include our famous recipes with our social circles. Sure there are some others out there doing similar things such as Epicurious, FoodCandy, and GroupRecipes, but Foodily has hooked up with Facebook creating their very own app that allows you to see your friends recommended recipes and whats popular among your own social circles. Foodily is wrapped up in an aesthetically pleasing interface thats easy to use and contributing recipes is a snap.
“I get most of my recipes from my friends and family,” says Andrea Cutright, CEO of Foodily, during a visit to VentureBeat HQ. “Food is one of the most social things we do. We include people in the whole process, from finding recipes to eating together.”
http://venturebeat.com/2011/08/30/social-food-index-foodily/
Share Recipes with Foodily | The Foodily Facebook App
Think about searching for recipes on Google, often times the large number of results are overwhelming and its really hit or miss, because even though you may find a popular recipe with rave reviews, whose to say that those results are a mirror of your personal tastes. However the Foodily Facebook App offers more refined results that should be your taste. When you share recipes with Foodily, all of your friends using the app will also be alerted of your new creations. Not to mention you can follow other users that have the same diets, tastes, or restrictions that you have, thus almost making recipe books obsolete.
You can share recipes with Foodily without even leaving the Facebook platform. Foodies, or users of Foodily, can invite new people to the site, and share and comment on food. With the Foodily app, you can also search for certain recipes without ingredients for that member of your family with allergies to certain food. If you have a particular interest in a category of food or style that you want to work with, Foodily also allows you to follow these topics to stay up-to-date on the latest trends.
The app works by trawling thousands of mainstream food sites as well as many independent food blogs. So everyone from Rachel Ray to your neighbor could potentially share recipes with Foodily.
If you have a bakery or are interested in selling your baked goods, it might be a good idea to share recipes with Foodily, this could draw a larger audience to your business.
Share Recipes with Foodily | The Founders
Before founding Foodily, Cutright, (right) together with co-founder and CMO Hillary Mickell (on the left), spent nearly a decade at Yahoo in roles spanning domestic and international marketing. Cutright is perfectly put together. She wears pearls and a cardigan, looking like an Anthropologie model. She can cook food that requires several unusual utensils and exotic ingredients I’ve never heard of. What’s more, these dishes probably all come out perfectly and are served beautifully. I really want to dislike her. But I can’t.
“Two-thirds of Foodily visitors were already sharing recipes on Facebook,” says Cutright. “And the average Facebook user has 40 page views per visit. We’ve been focused on the quality of engagement sine this is a social platform. Ten-percent of Foodily visitors are consuming 200 or more page views per visit.”
http://venturebeat.com/2011/08/30/social-food-index-foodily/
Share Recipes with Foodily
Its easy to share recipes with Foodily, and a truly new way to interact with our friends has emerged, through something that we can all appreciate, good food. Even though Foodily isn’t yet turning a profit, its recent merge to the Facebook platform probably will help them reap profits as food companies begin to prospect on your grandma’s oatmeal cookies.