* I echo that free-trial-rollover-to-paid is off-putting
* I can't seem to find information about the people who are putting together your recipes. Who are they? Where are they from? Where have they cooked?
* I also can't seem to find UI information about your app. Particularly, how easy is it to regenerate meals? Is nutritional information shown?
* What guarantees are there that if I save a recipe, that it will continue to be saved? (i.e. for your 2nd party recipes, what if a C&D comes in or you lose the license?)
* What import/export features are there in the App? Can I load in my own recipes that will be included in your rotation? Can I export your recipes into 3rd party utilities or into a markdown format?
Any one of these is mild, but taken together it walked me away from signing up for the free trial. I'm actively looking for products in this space and I'm 100% willing to pay $10/mo to remove the dinner frustrations from my life.
The featuresets I'm looking for:
* Recipes by high-trust sites and chefs (NYT, seriouseats, etc.)
* Easy meal generation (echo all of your points above and in this thread!)
* Easy meal re-generation
* Individual recommendation controls (thumbsup/thumbsdown individual recipes)
* Avoiding vendor lock-in (easy recipe import/export in a sane data format)
* Cross-platform (mobile ios/android, mac, linux, web)
* (Bonus) open-source
One technical question, how are you handling meal collation? I'd love to see your high-level technical stack there. Any ML? Individual recipe linking? Very curious :)