It All Started With Dinner

My girlfriend had been dealing with recipe websites for years. The ads, the pop-ups, the life story before the ingredients. She never complained much about it. But when I started cooking more to help out and share the load in the kitchen, I finally experienced it myself. My hands are covered in food and an ad is blocking the recipe. I'm scrolling through someone's childhood memory just to find how much garlic I need. I looked at her and said "this is what you've been dealing with!?"

So instead of complaining about it, I built an app.

What started as a simple fix turned into a full meal planner we use every day. She adds grocery items straight from the recipe list. I add them from the weekly meal planner. I can pull recipes directly from any website using a browser bookmark tab or just paste the URL. The grocery list organizes everything by store. It even tracks prices and shows high and low values so we're more aware of what we're spending.

It's made cooking so much easier for me, and I've actually gotten pretty good. Fajitas and Italian chicken cutlets are in regular rotation now. Oh, and our two dogs Tucker, a golden retriever, and Raven, a Belgian Malinois, chase a ball across the home screen every time you open it.

That project changed everything for me. I realized I loved solving real problems with code. So I kept building.