What is Crumb?
Crumb is your AI kitchen sidekick 🥖. Scan your pantry & fridge, track what’s about to expire, and get instant recipe ideas. Save money, cut food waste, and finally stop wondering “what’s for dinner?” with what you already have.
Problem
Users struggle to track expiring ingredients and generate recipe ideas based on pantry inventory, leading to food waste, meal planning frustration, and unnecessary grocery spending
Solution
AI kitchen management tool that lets users scan ingredients via mobile app, track expiry dates, and get instant AI-generated recipes using available items (e.g: input 'chicken+spinage+garlic' → suggests 5 recipes)
Customers
Busy professionals, home cooks, and parents managing households; Demographics: 25-45yo urban dwellers; Behaviors: frequent grocery shoppers, meal planners, tech-savvy foodies
Unique Features
Combines real-time pantry scanning with expiration tracking and contextual recipe generation, using ingredient combinations rather than manual input
User Comments
Saves 3+ hours weekly on meal planning
Reduced grocery bills by 20% via ingredient optimization
Waste 50% fewer expired ingredients
Weekly dinner dilemma solved
Intuitive expiry reminders
Traction
25,000+ users, $15k MRR, $100k pre-seed funding, 4.8/5 Product Hunt rating with 1,200+ upvotes, founder has 2,800 followers on X
Market Size
Global food waste management market valued at $342 billion in 2023 (Allied Market Research), with meal kit sector reaching $19.6 billion in 2024 (Statista)
