u/DarkJaff

Hey everyone,

I run a bilingual recipe manager and meal planning app (DR 4, small but growing). I am looking to build some genuine links with other B2C sites in the productivity, home organization, food, or family space.

I would rather avoid a straight reciprocal swap (my site linking to yours, yours linking back to mine) since that tends to carry less real SEO value these days. Instead I am open to two better options:

Option 1: Triangular exchange
You link to another site in the group, that site links to a third one, and someone links back to me. Nobody links directly back to whoever linked to them. If you already have one or two other people lined up for this, even better, we can coordinate placements.

Option 2: Mention in content
Instead of a permanent footer swap, a natural mention inside a relevant article works even better, something like a "best tools for meal planning" or "useful apps for home organization" roundup. I am happy to do the same on my end, for example a footer line like "Other useful tools like [YourSite]" alongside a few tools I genuinely use, or a mention inside a relevant blog post if I have one that fits.

What I am looking for:

• A site in a related niche (home, productivity, cooking, family life, organization)
• Real traffic or active content, not a parked domain
• A natural placement, not a sitewide spam link

If you run something in this space and are interested in either option, drop a comment or DM me and we can sort out the best fit.

Thanks!

For a very long time, I wanted to build a recipe manager and meal planning app. In my family, we love to cook and we had recipes scattered everywhere: cookbooks, magazines, binders full of printed and handwritten recipes, Chrome bookmarks, Google Keep notes, saved reels on Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok.

It was a mess. I'm sure I'm not alone.

Every time I started working on that project, a voice in my head said: "Check what already exists first." I don't like reinventing the wheel, so I gave the existing options a real shot, the big names and the smaller ones (ReciMe, Paprika, etc.).

They were all decent, but none of them fully worked for me:

• Overly simplified menu generators
• English only
• Missing import options or not working at all
• No collaboration or sharing between family members
• High annual subscription costs
• Separate apps to buy for each platform
• Bloated with features I'd never use

So three months ago, I started building the tool I actually wanted, for myself and my family. Once the MVP was solid, I opened it up to extended family and friends. The app has only been publicly available for about a month, it's called Origano.

Here's how it compares to other solutions:

• Advanced menu generator with day merging, configurable week start, and more
• French and English supported (more languages coming if there's demand)
• Multiple ways to import recipe very easily
• Sharing of recipe books, weekly menus, and grocery lists
• Generous free tier with an affordable monthly/annual PRO subscription
• PWA so it works on any platform from one install; native Windows, Android, and iOS apps are in progress
• Focused with no grocery flyers, no rebate finder, no social network, no calorie counter. Just recipes and meal planning.

To be fully transparent: I currently have around 100 users and 2 paying. This type of app has a long free-to-paid conversion cycle. People need to accumulate 50+ recipes or feel the need for advanced features like sharing before upgrading. The full year is $20 USD right now, though that may change as I gather more usage data. It is very affordable and it is my goal to keep it that way.

This is a passion project I work on in my free time. Right now I'm running a very "concierge" style operation, personally responding to every message and piece of feedback. I have real conversations with real users every day, and it genuinely fills me with joy when the app delivers value to them.

Marketing isn't my strength, and growing this as a full-time developer is a challenge, but I'm learning and improving every day.

Feel free to ask me anything, or give Origano a try if it sounds useful. I'm not an AI. I'm a real person from Montreal, Canada, building this for the love of it.