Is there a good app for find recipes by ingredients I have?
Heavily used and done badly — the most disruptable kind of gap.
83
Opportunity /100
88
Demand /100
7
Competition /100
84
Execution gap /100
0
Apps serving it
27
Mined complaints
What users complain about
The most common complaints behind apps that try to find recipes by ingredients I have, mined and clustered from real reviews:
| Complaint area | Type | Mentions | What a user said |
|---|---|---|---|
| cant search saved recipes by ingredients | missing-feature | 1 | if I'm searching for something I made before but just remember the ingredients, it doesn't get me there |
| cant filter recipes by ingredients | missing-feature | 1 | The filtering, or lack thereof, makes finding recipes based on ingredients poor |
| cant filter recipes by ingredients on hand | missing-feature | 1 | if there is a way to filter by ingredients that would be great |
| can no longer search recipes by ingredient | missing-feature | 1 | I used to be able to search recipes based on ingredients and I can't do that anymore |
| cant find known recipes by title | ux | 1 | i can't find recipes i know bon appétit has, even by searching for the recipe title |
| more ingredients and recipes wanted | missing-feature | 1 | maybe there could be more ingredients and recipes please |
| no search within saved recipes | missing-feature | 1 | There is no search saved recipes capability either |
| cant find recipes for products ordered | ux | 1 | it is impossible to find recipes for the products you ordered |
| recipes not searchable | bug | 1 | and not searchable |
| ingredient search returns irrelevant results | ux | 1 | search for an ingredient like strawberries and four of the top ten recipes won't contain any strawberries |
| search by ingredient inadequate | missing-feature | 1 | poor ability to search by ingredients in the app |
| search doesnt return relevant recipes | missing-feature | 1 | Search never finds what I'm looking for. Searched vegetable soup and it showed me everything but |
Should you build it?
Heavily used and done badly — the most disruptable kind of gap. Opportunity here scores 83 out of 100 — a function of demand, how crowded the field is, and how badly the existing apps perform. Use the live map to compare it against adjacent tasks.
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