Rachel Abady

Manna Cooking - Recipes, customization & groceries – all in one app

Manna is about making food easier, no matter your desire, lifestyle or dietary needs. Swipe on recipes to discover your next meal. ⁠Swap out recipes ingredient to meet your needs.⁠ Shop for groceries with just one click.

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Zach Johnson
What an amazing app!
Rachel Abady
@zach_johnson thank you!
Ojelola Ojelabi
Congrats on the launch guys.
Rachel Abady
@ojelola_ojelabi thank you!
Patrick
Awesome product, I'll definitely try this out. Does Manna have collaborative functionality? My partner and I like to share recipes and cook together, and it would be useful to add things to a shared board or something, especially when it comes to ordering ingredients. Otherwise we might order the same thing twice. Second question, does Manna draw in recipes from other sources online, or just ones added directly through the app? Love this though, congrats on the launch!
Josh Abady
@frontlyapp Hey Patrick! We've discussed a lot internally what to work on in the realm of collaboration and sharing. We've had ideas like re-heats (aka retweets for recipes) and side by side videos. I love the idea of collaborative cookbooks! Great suggestion, will definitely run that by the team. To answer your second question, you can absolutely pull recipes from the web! Hit the "+" button and click add from URL then just copy and paste the recipe URL and it'll pull in. It works on 35 or so top websites, and once you pull recipes in you can customize them however you want and save your preferred version. If there's a site you like and it doesn't work let me know and we can look into adding it! Each site is custom
Rachel Abady
@frontlyapp Hi Patrick! Excited to have you try the app. We're still building out the sharing/social features (we plan to make it collaborative for exactly the reason you posted). Right now, the best thing to do is share the recipe in the open world Discover feed or share the recipe link directly with your partner. More on this soon. Secondly, we source recipes from a variety of places to make sure that we have diverse, vetted, quality recipes on the platform. Our recipes come from Manna users, top publishers, chefs and partners.
Jenny Romano
As a foodie with numerous friends with different dietary needs, I love this!
Rachel Abady
@jenny_romano thanks, Jenny!
Yenire leal
I definitely will use this! Frequently, I'm looking for food recipes and variability the same, and this can be useful. Congratulation on the launch.
Rachel Abady
@yenire_leal thanks, Yenire! excited to have you on the app.
Guy Greenstein
Hey everyone, I'm the CTO and developer of the manna app and its surrounding architecture. Floored by everyones support for everything I've been working on for the past few years! Seeing everyone enjoy using it makes all the work worthwhile! I'm happy to answer any technical questions you have about the app or the tech I used to stand this project up from scratch.
Saba Zewdie B.
This is such a great idea and product!
Rachel Abady
@saba_b thank you!
Zion
Nice app design. Congrats for launch!
Josh Abady
sunmae
so cute. love your product!
Rachel Abady
@sunmaesunmae Thank you!
Elena Plotnikova
You have touched upon an urgent problem concerning people and food. I think it will be convenient to select a recipe and get a list of products at the same time, rather than rewriting it from the recipe. How many people worked on such a project? How long did it take you to release a working version of the project?
Rachel Abady
@motion_designer Hi Elena! It's just the 3 of us full time: myself (CMO), my brother Josh (CEO) and our brilliant friend and coder, Guy (CTO) who built the entire app himself. over the last 3 years, we've been so lucky to work with freelancers and contractors to help build out the app UX/UI, too. it took us 1 year to release a prototype/alpha version for testers and we've been iterating ever since. let me know fi you have other questions!