About Sawce

The hottest way to find your next favorite hot sauce.

Why Sawce Exists

The craft hot sauce world is exploding. There are thousands of small-batch makers putting out incredible stuff — fermented, fruity, smoky, face-melting, you name it. But finding the ones you'll actually love? That's still a total crapshoot. You're scrolling Reddit threads, gambling on farmers market bottles, and hoping the label art matches the flavor.

Sawce fixes that. Swipe through craft hot sauces, tell us what you're into, and we'll match you with bottles that fit your flavor profile and heat tolerance. Think of it as a dating app for your taste buds — except every match is a good one, and nobody ghosts you.

The Guy Behind the Heat

Hey, I'm Ron. Ron Fartley. Former owner and operator of the award-winning hot sauce company Fartley Farms — where we took home a Golden Chile at ZestFest, wrote over 200 blog posts about hot sauce, developed 49 original recipes, and ate the spiciest dish at pretty much every restaurant in Columbus, Ohio. If it burned, we were there.

A few years back, I sold the company to some well-trusted new owners and stepped away from the game. Took a breather. Tried to be normal. But capsaicin has a way of calling you back, and it turns out "retirement" from hot sauce isn't really a thing.

So here I am, building the app I wished existed when I was deep in the sauce game — a place where heat seekers and flavor chasers can discover their next obsession without all the guesswork. That's Sawce.

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