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Kosher CoShare

“Cook together. Share calmly.” A community where people post, discover and organise kosher recipes — with the social features of a network and the speed of an app.

Product, design & full-stack build Next.js · Vercel · Google sign-in Installable PWA
kosher-coshare.lamalo.studio
Kosher CoShare home page with “Cook together. Share calmly.”, New recipe and Search buttons, and recently published recipes
The live home page with real community recipes, captured from the production site.
Social layer
Post · upvote · save
Data
Database-backed
Images
Cloud uploads
Install
Works like an app

The challenge

Recipe sites are noisy: ads, life stories, endless scrolling. Kosher home cooks also need to know at a glance whether a dish is pareve, meat, nut-free or kosher for Pesach. The goal was a calm, fast place to share — which meant real social features (profiles, posting, voting, saving) without the clutter, and a data model that stays quick as the library grows.

How it works

  1. Sign inGoogle account

    One tap to join; avatars and names come from the account.

  2. PostNew recipe

    Title, cook time, dietary labels and a photo uploaded to cloud storage.

  3. StoreDatabase

    Recipes, authors, votes and saves are stored as related records.

  4. DiscoverFeed & search

    Fresh posts, “Beloved picks” ranked by upvotes, and full search.

What’s inside

  • A real social component: public author profiles, upvotes that drive a “Beloved picks” ranking, saved recipes and a personal “My recipes” collection.
  • Dietary labels — Pareve, Meat, Nut-free, Kosher for Pesach — shown on every card so people can scan, not read.
  • Image uploads straight to cloud storage, so photos load quickly without slowing the database down.
  • Search across the whole library, and a dedicated page for it.
  • Installable as a progressive web app: open it from the home screen, with basic pages working offline.

The outcome

A complete community product — accounts, user-generated content, ranking and search — that feels smooth in daily use and is live with real recipes from real cooks. It is the same foundation we use for client platforms that need members, posts and moderation-ready data.