V2: Looking for Project Feedback

I feel like if you really want to get quality feedback and actual users, you should find vegans you actually know and reach out to them directly. Sit down with them and talk about what they find difficult about maintaining their vegan lifestyle - don't even show them your product, just understand what they're going through. If you're vegan, then ask yourself - what would it take for you to use this product every day? If you do use it every day, then great - ask 10 other vegans what their challenges are, then see if their problems overlap. If they do, then make a feature in your product that supports that. After that, reach back out to them and ask them to try out your app and ask for feedback. Then rinse and repeat, and ask those vegan friends to introduce you to more vegans.

Taro, as great of a community that it is, isn't your target demographic. Sure, there are a few vegans in the community, but the concentration isn't dense enough. As a result most of the community can't really offer you helpful feedback because... we're not vegan. You'd probably have better chances if you posted on the vegan subreddit than here. Not trying to discourage you but I think your efforts for getting feedback can be better spent elsewhere.

Nice improvements from v1! Targeting a specific demographic (one that is personally appealing to me) definitely makes this more appealing.

UX:

• Could you remove a click by embedding the filters at top (something like https://www.jointaro.com/networking/, but with checkboxes).
  • There's almost certainly an 80/20 rule here -- very few people want recipes for beverages or condiments, but everyone want recipes for the main course.
• The pics look much better now, more appetizing somehow. Perhaps it's because the meals are personally relevant to me now

Feedback as a user:

• The biggest blocker for is that I just don't care enough (or I'm too lazy) to try out new recipes. I just default to things I've made before, a ready-made meal, or Chipotle.
• When I do cook, it's often socially. Either with my wife, or because a friend told me about a dish. I'll rarely go to a website and choose a random recipe.

One random idea for growth in the food area: can you create detail pages for each recipe and put them on Pinterest? I have no idea if this will work, but simply having a good pic and clean way for people to get the recipe is probably valuable.