Pluck Recipes VS YieldStack

Pluck Recipes's answer

Pluck is the only recipe app that extracts recipes from video. Most recipe managers clip text from food blogs - Pluck goes further:

• Watches cooking videos on TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube, and Facebook
• Analyzes audio, on-screen text, and visuals to produce a complete recipe
• Strips food blog clutter down to just ingredients and steps
• Scans photos of cookbook pages and handwritten recipe cards

One app that handles every recipe source - not just text.

YieldStack's answer:

YieldStack combines AI-assisted lender matching with hands-on commercial mortgage brokerage. Borrowers submit once, compare financing options, and work with a team that handles structuring, negotiation, and closing coordination. Borrowers approve lender outreach, with no upfront fees and a broker fee paid only at closing.

Pluck Recipes's answer

Most recipe apps (Paprika, Mela, Pestle) only work with text-based food blogs. But that's not where people find recipes anymore:

• TikTok and Instagram - short-form video with no written recipe to clip
• YouTube - long tutorials where the recipe is spoken, not typed
• Food blogs - 2000 words of life stories before the ingredients

Pluck handles all of it. Plus:

• A free web tool at Plucks website anyone can try without downloading
• AI cooking assistant that answers questions while you cook
• Offline access to all saved recipes

YieldStack's answer:

YieldStack helps borrowers evaluate the whole financing offer: rate, leverage, fees, reserves, prepayment terms, and closing requirements. Its platform organizes the process, while its brokerage team helps borrowers find suitable lenders and move the deal forward. One submission gives borrowers a coordinated financing process without an upfront brokerage fee.

Pluck Recipes's answer

Home cooks who discover recipes on social media and food blogs. Specifically:

• People who save TikTok cooking videos but never find them again
• People who screenshot Instagram recipes that get buried in their camera roll
• People who scroll past five minutes of life stories on food blogs to reach the ingredients
• Anyone who wants their recipes organized in one place, ready to cook

YieldStack's answer:

Commercial real estate investors, developers, operators, and mortgage brokers seeking bridge, DSCR, fix-and-flip, construction, multifamily, and permanent financing across the United States.

Pluck Recipes's answer

We built Pluck because saving recipes from social media is broken.

You find an amazing pasta recipe on TikTok, but there's no written recipe - just a 60-second video. Screenshot it? You'll never find it. Bookmark it? Lost in a sea of other bookmarks.

We wanted one app that handles any recipe source - video, blogs, photos - and turns it into something you can actually cook from.

The hardest part was video extraction:

• Combining audio transcription (what they say)
• On-screen text recognition (what they show)
• Visual analysis (what they do)

...to piece together a complete recipe from a fast-paced cooking video.

YieldStack's answer:

Rommin Adl and Daniel Chesney founded YieldStack to simplify commercial real estate financing. The platform brings deal preparation, lender matching, offer comparison, and closing coordination into one workflow, combining AI-assisted analysis with human brokerage expertise.

Pluck Recipes's answer

• Mobile app - React Native with Expo
• Backend - Supabase (auth, database, edge functions)
• AI extraction - Claude AI for recipe parsing, with backup from GPT-5 and Gemini!
• Video processing - OpenAI Whisper for audio transcription
• Website - Astro, hosted on Netlify

YieldStack's answer:

AI integrations supporting the platform’s workflows.

YieldStack's answer:

The largest CRE Lenders in the USA