Frequently Asked Questions

Spicy Sweet Sour is a social platform built for food lovers, creators, and home cooks. It's a place to share recipes, preserve food stories, build a cooking portfolio, and explore dishes from around the world.

Anyone who loves food — whether you're a beginner, a home cook, a professional chef, or a creator looking to build a portfolio.

Yes. Spicy Sweet Sour is designed for creators. You can publish your recipes, add photos or videos, and build a beautiful profile that reflects your cooking style.

This isn't just a recipe site. It's a community-driven space where creativity, culture, and technology come together. You can share your food story, explore recipes based on mood or ingredients, and soon — use AI tools to plan meals, discover dishes, and personalize your cooking journey.

Your portfolio is your personal cooking identity — a collection of your recipes, creations, and food stories. It's designed to be clean, aesthetic, and shareable.

Yes. AI will help users discover what to cook based on mood, cravings, ingredients, cuisine, or dietary needs. It will also support nutrition planning, recipe suggestions, and personalized cooking guidance.

Absolutely. One of our core values is cultural preservation. You can document family dishes, add stories, and keep them safe for future generations.

Yes. The core experience — browsing, sharing, and discovering recipes — is free. Additional creator tools may be introduced later.

Once you join, you can add your name, bio, cooking style, and upload your recipes. Your profile becomes your personal food space — clean, aesthetic, and portfolio-ready.

We're building AI-powered recipe discovery, mood-based cooking suggestions, nutrition and meal planning tools, creator analytics, community interactions, and saved collections.

Spicy Sweet Sour is created and developed by Kanupriya T. — a food creator, and the first user of the platform. The vision is to build a warm, intentional, global home for food lovers everywhere.

Spicy Sweet Sour is built with a strong search foundation, which means your recipes can naturally reach more people through our internal discovery system. Creators can also promote their recipes or pages for additional visibility across the platform. If you're interested in promotional placement, you can reach out to us for a personalized quotation. As the platform grows, we're building an SEO-driven ecosystem designed to support creators. In the future, recipes and pages that attract significant traffic may become eligible for revenue-sharing based on ad performance. Metrics and payout structures aren't finalized yet — it's still early — but the long-term vision is clear: when your content brings value to the platform, you should share in the success.