MANE
MANE is a social platform built for sharing recipes. You publish your dish step by step, with its photos and its ingredients; every recipe, every like it collects and every comment turns into points. Those points are counted on four separate leaderboards, so a recipe posted today shows up on the daily board straight away. Reading recipes, boards and profiles takes no account at all — signing in is only for adding a recipe of your own.
MANE is a social platform for publishing and sharing cooking recipes. A home cook, a chef or a food blogger writes a dish down once, in a proper structure: a cover photo, step-by-step instructions, a list of ingredients, the cooking time, the number of servings and a difficulty level. From then on the recipe is a page that can be searched, filtered and sent to someone as a link.
What separates it from an ordinary recipe site comes down to one word: gamification. Points here are not decoration, they are the core of the platform. Signing up earns points on its own, the first recipes earn more than the ones that follow, and after that every like and every comment you receive raises the total. Those points then place you next to everyone else on four leaderboards — all-time, monthly, weekly and daily.
The problem is that recipe sharing usually happens on social networks, scattered and unstructured. A good recipe disappears into a story, gets buried in a group chat, scatters through the comments — and going back to find it later is close to impossible. MANE puts a recipe into an orderly format: time and its unit, servings, difficulty, category, cuisine, tags. That is what makes a recipe findable afterwards and comparable with other dishes.
For the author it is visibility and motivation. Unlike an ordinary post, a recipe does not get lost: people like it, comment on it and follow you, and each of those becomes points that show on your profile. Seeing your own place on a leaderboard is the simplest reason there is to finish writing a recipe.
Everything reads openly. The recipe list, an individual recipe page, the leaderboards and user profiles are all visible without signing in — anyone who opens a link can read the whole of the content. A Google account is needed only to add your own recipe, to like, to comment, to follow and to send a message.
A story is gone within a day; a message in a group chat is a hundred messages down by the evening. A recipe is genuinely long-lived content — the one written today is still wanted a year from now. On MANE every recipe gets its own page at its own address: you can send it as a link, come back to it later and edit it.
A recipe squeezed into a single message never separates the ingredients from the steps or says how long anything takes — you end up scrolling the phone up and down over the stove. Here each part of the recipe has a field of its own: ingredients as a separate list, the method as a numbered sequence, time and servings as figures on their own.
Among scattered posts there is no way to hunt down “a quick dinner”. Recipes on MANE are filtered by category, cuisine, difficulty, tag and author, with search on top of that — so looking for something gives you a precise answer rather than a random one.
Writing a good recipe out properly takes time, and usually nothing is left to show for it. On MANE every recipe, every like and every comment turns into points and moves your place on the leaderboard. The work has a visible result — the most reliable reason there is not to abandon a recipe halfway.
MANE is not a closed club. Nearly all of the content reads without an account — signing in only comes into it when you want to add something yourself.
So the sensible way in is as a reader first: open a few recipes, look at a leaderboard until the counting makes sense, and sign in once you are ready to add a recipe of your own.
The main rule of the recipe form is that only the title is required. Every other field is optional, so you can put a recipe up quickly and fill the rest in later, when there is time for it. That is deliberate: a half-written recipe should not go missing.
One field is compulsory — the name of the dish. The description is more than a plain text box: the text can be formatted, emphasised and laid out as a list. So the few words introducing the dish come out tidy rather than as one solid block.
A single recipe takes several photos. Their order is changed by dragging, and whichever photo sits first automatically becomes the cover — the image shown on the recipe card and at the top of the page. To change the cover you simply move another photo into first place.
The method is written as separate steps and comes out on the recipe page as a numbered sequence. Steps can be formatted as well, so even a long set of instructions is not hard to keep readable.
Ingredients go in as a list of their own. Each one can take a ready-made icon — there are 24 of them — or a picture you upload yourself. The result is an ingredient list you take in at a glance rather than a wall of text.
The cooking time is entered as a number with its unit; the number of servings and the difficulty level are picked separately. The three of them sit as short figures at the top of the recipe page and work as filters in the recipe list.
The category is picked from a ready-made list of 11. The cuisine is picked the same way and the choice is far wider: 56 cuisines. So a national dish never has to be filed under “other” — you name its cuisine exactly, and the recipe is found by it.
A YouTube video can be attached to a recipe — paste the link and the video plays on the recipe page itself. Calories have a field of their own, which keeps the recipe useful to anyone counting what they eat.
Tags mark a recipe on one more axis besides category and cuisine — by whatever you consider worth flagging about it. The recipe list filters by tag too.
While you are editing a recipe, deleted photos are not destroyed at once — they go only after you save. So if you remove a photo by accident and leave without saving, nothing is lost.
The point system is the heart of MANE, so its rules are not hidden. Points come from two sources: the recipes you add yourself, and what other people do with them. The numbers below are exactly the ones the platform runs on.
The beginning is deliberately rewarded: the first three recipes earn more than the ones after them. The reason is simple — finishing the first recipe is the hard part.
| What you do | Points |
|---|---|
| First sign-in (account created) | +1000 |
| First recipe | +1000 |
| Second recipe | +500 |
| Third recipe | +300 |
| Fourth recipe and every one after it | +100 |
The first points arrive before you have done anything: the first time you sign in with Google, 1000 points are written to your account and a congratulation window appears on screen. In other words you are on the leaderboard before your first recipe is.
Three recipes carry a value of their own — the 10th, the 100th and the 1000th. Instead of the usual 100 points, they earn the following.
| Which recipe | Points |
|---|---|
| 10th recipe | 1000 |
| 100th recipe | 2000 |
| 1000th recipe | 5000 |
The detail that matters: this award does not stack on top of the usual base one, it replaces it. The 10th recipe earns exactly 1000 points — not 100 and 1000 added together into 1100. Which is why keeping count of your recipes is worth it: stopping at the ninth would be a shame.
The second source is what other people do. The points go to the author of the recipe, not to the person who liked it or wrote the comment.
| Action | To the author |
|---|---|
| A like on a recipe | +5 |
| A comment on a recipe | +1 |
The system becomes obvious very quickly: a like is worth five times a comment, but a comment is easier to leave. A recipe people actually look at collects both, which is why one good recipe can earn more than ten written in a hurry.
Liking or commenting on your own recipe adds nothing. That closes the simplest way of playing the system and keeps the leaderboard tied to genuine interest.
If a like is taken back or a comment is deleted, the points it gave are removed too. So the total is not a counter that only ever grows — it shows the real state of things.
If a subtraction would take the total negative, it stops at zero. There is no such thing as a minus balance, so a few likes being withdrawn will not leave your account “in debt”.
Each point you earn goes into four counters at the same time: all-time, monthly, weekly and daily. The all-time counter never returns to zero, while the other three start a new period automatically when the old one ends.
The ranking is not one list but four separate tables. That is deliberate: with a single overall table, the people who have been posting for years would hold the top and a newcomer would have no hope of reaching it.
Every point collected since the account was created. This table never resets, so it shows what steady posting over a long stretch adds up to.
Only the points earned this month. When the month ends the count starts again — so everyone begins each month on level ground.
The points from this week. This is the liveliest table of the four: a few good recipes inside one week can put you near the top.
The points earned today. Post your first recipe today and you will find yourself on this table — there is no waiting months to see a result.
The table shows the handful of people at the top, but even if you are far below you never have to hunt for yourself: your position is shown on its own. To carry on down the list there is a “show more” button — the whole list is not loaded in one go.
The leaderboard is not redrawn after every single like — it is shown from a prepared snapshot that updates at short intervals. So a like you have just received turning up in the table a few minutes later is normal. The points themselves are recorded immediately; only the place in the table lags behind.
MANE is not a recipe archive — it is a place where people see each other. The social side has four parts, and each of them has a clear rule.
If you like a recipe you press like, and 5 points go to the author. A like can be taken back, and then the points go back with it. A like on your own recipe earns nothing.
Every recipe takes comments underneath it, and each one gives the author 1 point. The rights are split on purpose: whoever wrote the comment edits and deletes it, while the owner of the recipe can only delete — they can take an unwanted comment off their recipe, but they cannot rewrite it.
You can follow an author you like and unfollow at any time. Following happens through the profile — so one good recipe opens the way to everything else that author has written.
From a user’s profile you can write to them directly. The chat takes text and images alike; an image has to be 5 MB or smaller. Messages arrive without reloading the page.
Notifications work in one case for now: when somebody follows you. Likes and comments do not send one — you find those by opening your recipe or your profile. Worth knowing, because the conclusion that “nobody is liking anything” usually comes from a notification that was never going to arrive.
In the recipe list, search and several filters work together — which means a search can be narrowed down step by step.
The home page, meanwhile, starts with the latest recipes: you can look through what has just been added without searching for anything. From a recipe you liked to the author’s profile, and from there to their other recipes — that is the most natural route through MANE.
The MANE interface is in English, Uzbek and Russian. The language is picked from the list at the top and the choice is kept in your browser — next time the site opens in it straight away. Uzbek is written in the Latin alphabet.
The language the site opens in first is English, so an English reader has nothing to set up. Uzbek and Russian are one pick away in the list at the top, and once picked the choice carries over to the next visit.
You can look through the recipes, the leaderboards and the profiles without doing anything at all. It is a useful first step: seeing how other recipes are put together tells you how to write your own.
Google is the only way in. There is no password to invent, no confirmation email to wait for, and no password reset to go wrong later.
On your first sign-in, 1000 points are written to your account automatically and a congratulation window appears. Your leaderboard total starts before your first recipe does.
On the create page only one field is required — the name of the dish. So a recipe can be started in a moment and the rest filled in afterwards.
You upload several photos and drag them into order. Whichever one ends up first becomes the cover — that is the image people see on the recipe card, so put your best shot in front.
You break the method into steps, list the ingredients with an icon or a picture each, and set the time, servings and difficulty. Pick a category and a cuisine as well, and your recipe becomes findable through the filters.
Paste a YouTube link and the video plays inside the recipe page. Listing the calories makes your recipe considerably more valuable to anyone counting what they eat.
The first recipe earns 1000 points, the second 500, the third 300 — and every one after that 100. Your points are on your profile and your position is on the leaderboard.
The most interesting of the four tables are the daily and the weekly: they move fast, so a result shows up immediately. Points grow as likes and comments come in, and following an author you like or writing to them happens right there, through the profile.
There is no password login and no phone number login. That is convenient, but your account is tied to that particular Google account — so decide at the outset which one you are signing in with.
Likes and comments do not send a notification. To see them you open your own recipe or your profile. A new follower, on the other hand, is announced.
The interface is trilingual, but English is what shows first. Uzbek and Russian are one pick away in the language list at the top, and after that the choice is kept in your browser.
Points are recorded immediately, but the place in the table refreshes at short intervals. After a new like you may have to wait a few minutes and reopen the table — that is not a fault.
Those three start a new period when the old one ends, so your position in the table keeps moving. The all-time count never returns to zero — it holds every point you have earned.
The owner of a recipe can delete a comment left under it, but cannot edit it. That is deliberate: the words of a comment stay the words of the person who wrote them.
When a like is taken back or a comment is deleted, those points come off the total. The count stops at zero rather than going negative, but your place in the table can drop.
MANE is a new platform, and likes and comments are still scarce. That is a drawback on one side and an opportunity on the other: climbing the leaderboard is a good deal easier right now, because the daily and weekly tables start fresh every day and every week.
No. The home page, the recipe list, individual recipe pages, the leaderboards and user profiles all open without one — reading the whole of the content takes nothing at all. Signing in only comes into it when you add something yourself: creating a recipe, liking, commenting, following and sending a direct message.
With a Google account, and only that. There is no password to invent, no confirmation code to wait for and no phone number to leave — the Google account you already have is enough. There is no other way in, so your account is tied to that one.
Only the name of the dish. Photos, description, steps, ingredients, time, servings, difficulty, category, cuisine, video, calories and tags are all optional. So you can start a recipe quickly and come back to finish it — a half-written recipe does not go missing.
Signing in for the first time writes 1000 points to your account. For recipes: the first earns 1000, the second 500, the third 300, and every one after that 100. On top of that, what other people do earns points too — every like on your recipe brings you 5 points and every comment 1.
Three round numbers carry a value of their own: the 10th recipe earns 1000 points, the 100th 2000 and the 1000th 5000. The detail that matters is that this award does not stack on top of the usual base one — it replaces it. So the 10th recipe earns exactly 1000, not 1100.
No. Neither a like on your own recipe nor a comment you write under it earns anything. Points only come from someone else’s action, and they go to the author of the recipe rather than to the person doing it.
The points come off the total, but the total never goes negative. If a subtraction would take it below zero, the count stops at zero. So a few likes being withdrawn will not leave your account “in debt” — it only affects your place in the table.
Because a single overall table would leave a newcomer no hope of reaching the top. The all-time table keeps the whole history, while the monthly, weekly and daily ones start over when their period ends. That is why someone who joined today can already be on the daily table today.
The table shows the people at the top, and your own position is shown separately — there is no scrolling down to hunt for yourself. A “show more” button carries on down the list. The table refreshes at short intervals, so points you have just earned may take a few minutes to move you.
No. Notifications work in one case for now — when somebody follows you. Likes and comments you find by opening your own recipe or your profile. Messages in a direct chat, on the other hand, arrive without reloading the page.
Yes. Paste a YouTube link and the video plays inside the recipe page — nobody has to leave for another site. That helps most with dishes where the movement of your hands matters: you write the steps out and show the tricky part on video.
Three: English, Uzbek and Russian — the sections read “Recipes”, “Leaderboard” and “Messages” in English, “Retseptlar”, “Reyting” and “Xabarlar” in Uzbek. The site opens in English first, so switching is only needed if you would rather read it in another language; pick it once from the list at the top and the choice is kept in your browser.
The easiest way to start is to open MANE, read a recipe or two, then look at a leaderboard and see how the counting works. After that, sign in with your Google account and the first 1000 points land straight away — leaving you only the name of the dish to write, because the rest of the fields can wait. The daily table starts fresh every day, so a recipe added today shows up today.