Portfolio · MACCUS
MACCUS in numbers: the sites, the app and the audiences
From Tournai, Belgium, MACCUS publishes its own media and monetizes them. More than a million visits a month, in 24 languages.
visits a year on marcwiner.com
languages published
members on Facebook
01 · The assets
The assets
13M+visits a year
marcwiner.com
Asian cooking in 24 languages
20,000+users
HitchHive
The anti-loneliness app
FR + ENdaily news
maccus.fr
Agency and AI news outlet
1.3M+members
Two Facebook groups
Asian cooking and air fryer
200,000+visits a year
charcuteriemaison.fr
Homemade charcuterie in 7 languages
290+recipes
lacucinadilaura.com
Italian cooking, with Laura
49recipes
raphaelzagnoni.com
Pastry chef Raphaël Zagnoni’s recipes
80,000subscribers
Newsletter
One recipe a day
62,400followers
TikTok
Quick recipes, on video
65,000followers
Recipes and kitchen footage
80,000followers
Facebook page
Recipes from marcwiner.com
840+recipes
Cuisine Asiatique Maison
Recipes on iOS and Android
02 · marcwiner.com
The flagship site
marcwiner.com publishes more than 840 recipes, developed by Marc Winer and photographed step by step by professionals, in French and 23 other languages. The translations bring in more than 460,000 visits a month. Organic search drives 84% of traffic.
The site also has a daily newsletter, a member area, four ebooks and its own app. It earns its money from advertising and brand partnerships.
03 · HitchHive
Meet people in your city
HitchHive is for going out with people from your city. Anyone posts an activity on the map, others join, and every city has its own chat. The app passed 20,000 users in September 2026, in Manila, Louvain-la-Neuve and Brussels.
MACCUS builds it in-house, in eight languages, for iOS and Android, and moderates it around the clock.
04 · maccus.fr
The services and the news outlet
maccus.fr sells two services proven on the agency’s own sites: EVE, the outsourced virtual employee, and multilingual SEO. More than 30 Belgian companies and freelancers already use EVE. Every day the site publishes AI, SEO and marketing news in French and English.
Claude for Startups · member since October 2026Cyber Verification Program · verified organization since September 2026
Anthropic selected MACCUS for Claude for Startups and admitted it to its Cyber Verification Program, reserved for organizations whose security program has been verified. MACCUS uses that access for its own sites and its clients’ sites.
05 · The agency
The agency
MACCUS is based in Tournai, Belgium. Its founder, Marc Winer, graduated from IE Business School; TV Tokyo filmed him in March 2026 for his okonomiyaki. The agency produces with its own AI tools: translations, newsletters, moderation, traffic and server monitoring.
06 · Social
The social accounts
Partnerships and interviews go through the MACCUS contact page.
Figures: October 2026.