TotallyChefs - a social network for food lovers

In 2016 my wife asked me if I could create a small blog for her to save her favorite recipes. We created a small blog using a hacked up version of Craft CMS and after a couple years we ended up getting A LOT more search traffic than we ever dreamed possible, competing with some of the biggest recipe sites on the web. Last year, while on vacation we made the decision to take things to the next level and build out an entire social network for recipes, cooking, sharing and so forth. After returning from vacation, I got right to it, spending every off-hour and weekend building a brand new app from the ground up using NextJS & Vercel. Needless to say, building with NextJS & Vercel has been a breeze and writing code was fun again.

What is TotallyChefs? People like you sharing recipes, tips, cooking and the love of food. A place for creating your own recipes, generating creative new ai recipes, saving recipes to your recipe boxes and sharing your recipes with others around the world. Everyone is welcome!

It’s completely free to signup, we don’t allow ads, we don’t spam and we’re trying to make a go of it without those traditional avenues everyone else relies on for revenue, besides who wants ads taking over their recipe when they’re trying to cook? Instead, we just made a damn good product and we would be honored for you to check it out and reply here with thoughts, critiques, etc.

tchfs.com

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Music to our ears! Thank you for sharing :smile:

Great idea!

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The page and UI are really cool!
A note on performance: It seems like the images are using the largest option in the srcset for some reason, which is slowing down my image load time quite a bit. :confused:

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