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Ines Duarte
What we learned from 10,000 bakery apps
Small businesses want boring, reliable software. So do we.
Bakeries are the most common kind of business building on Yuzu, and not by a little. So we have read a lot of bakery prompts. A few patterns kept coming up.
Nobody asked for a feed
Almost no one wanted likes, comments or an activity stream. They wanted a list of orders, sorted by pickup time, that someone with flour on their hands can read from across the room.
Limits matter more than features
The most common rule in a bakery prompt is a cap: 60 loaves, 12 cakes, closed on Mondays. The oven is the real database. So limits became a first-class part of the plan instead of something you bolt on later.
Boring is a feature
When an app runs a business, surprises are expensive. That’s why new projects start in Stripe test mode, why every change is a version you can restore, and why we ship most weeks but rarely ship anything loud.
If you run a bakery and made it this far, the Bakery preorders template is a good place to start.