Your recipes. Your name stays on them.
On Instagram your recipe gets passed around as a screenshot, without you. On forc your kitchen has an address, every recipe has a cook mode, and whoever takes one and changes it keeps your name on it. The original stays as it was.
Your kitchen at forc.app/your-name. Free, on the web and as an app for iPhone and Android.
Like GitHub, only for recipes – and without you having to know what GitHub is.
What your kitchen can bring in.
Part of your recipes is for members who pay monthly: the series, the base recipes, what cannot be told in thirty seconds. You set the price. forc keeps ten percent plus payment fees; the rest goes to you, every month.
€417 a month for you
Calculated with ten percent for forc and the card fee of 1.5 % plus 25 cents per payment. Memberships can be cancelled monthly.Your kitchen.
All your recipes in one place, with a photo, two sentences and an address you can hand out: forc.app/your-name. Every recipe has its own, every variant shows where it came from. Private until you make it public. And you can take everything with you at any time, as readable files.
Public is your shop window. For members is the depth.
You set every recipe to public, for members or private. Public recipes are found by everyone; they get forked and carry your name into the world. Members-only recipes are seen by those who subscribe to your kitchen; everyone else sees title, photo and description, and the way to you. You know your members by name, and you take them with you wherever you go.
- A copy is not a forc: what changes nothing cannot be published by anyone.
- Your photos stay with you, even when someone adapts your recipe.
- Nobody else earns with your work: variants of your recipes cannot be sold.
Cook what the best cook. Then make it yours.
Follow kitchens, not algorithms: what the people you follow cook lands in your stream, in order, uncurated. Take one of their recipes and their name stays on it – on your variant and on every one that grows from it. Copying is not theft here, it is the point. The cook sees what becomes of her recipe and takes the best of it back.
How a recipe lives on forc.
A recipe is not saved and then forgotten. It is cooked, changed, passed on, taken back. Every version stays, every one knows its origin.
- Forc
- – take a recipe and make it yours. Your variant knows its origin, the original stays untouched.
- Version
- – every saved change to a recipe. All stay, all can be compared.
- Take back
- – pull a change from a variant into your own recipe, with credit.
- Kitchen
- – your place on forc: your recipes, your variants, what you keep for later – at your address.
Change it. The original stays.
That is the heart of forc. No feta? Dressing too sweet? You change ingredients and steps and save your variant. You see before and after, and Clara's recipe is exactly as it was – your version hangs off it, with her name as its origin.
See what others make of yours. Take the best of it back.
Your recipes get better without you doing anything. Every variant shows you what someone changed. Like an idea, take it into your recipe with one tap – as a new version, with that person's name on it. All versions stay comparable.
Cook it. And keep track of what you change.
Cooking mode shows only what is up now: checklist, timer in the step, parallel tasks side by side, the screen stays on. Afterwards you note how it went – with a photo if you like. What you cooked to the end sits in your kitchen under “Recently cooked”.
In the kitchen: the app.
The web is for writing, finding and sharing. The app is for the kitchen, with wet fingers and one hand.
- Cook mode with timers, the screen stays on
- Camera for step photos and “cooked it”
- Shopping list to tick off and “What have you got?”, the same on all your devices
- Shared addresses open straight in the app
Free, for iPhone and Android. The apps are built and on their way to the stores.
What forc is not.
These are decisions, not missing features.
- No algorithm.Your stream shows what the people you follow cook – in order. Nobody decides for you what to cook today.
- No import.forc is for people who make recipes, not collect them. What is here someone wrote themselves or took with its origin showing.
- No ads, no data trading.Your recipes and what you cook are not sold and not used to train models.
- No overwriting.Nothing gets lost. Every version stays, every variant knows its origin, and you can take everything with you at any time.
Who it is for.
For people who make recipes and pass them on, not just collect them.
- You show your cooking on Instagram and answer the same question every day: “Where is the recipe?”
- Your best recipe lives in three chat threads, a photo and a note – and every time it is a different version.
- You never cook other people's recipes as written – and it annoys you every time that your change is nowhere.
- You pass recipes on, to family, friends, your people online – and want your name to stay on them, whatever becomes of them.
- You cook for a living and want your recipes in one place – exact amounts, scalable, every change traceable.
- You want a device in the kitchen that says what is up now and otherwise keeps quiet.
What it costs.
No ads means forc is carried by the people who earn with it. For cooks and fans forc is free, on the web and in the app. Whoever earns with their kitchen gives up ten percent plus payment fees, as on Substack.
You sell memberships to your kitchen at your price. forc keeps ten percent plus payment fees; the rest goes to you.
- Unlimited recipes, variants, versions
- Your kitchen with its own address
- Cooking mode with checklist and timers, in the app and on the web
- Shopping list and “What have you got?”
- Members who pay for your recipes: ten percent plus fees to forc
Set up your kitchen. Put your first recipe in.
Your kitchen is up in a minute, with an address. Your first recipe in five. What others make of it you will see then – with your name on it.
Set up your kitchen