FixDinner
I was tired of the "What's for dinner?" question too...
Every evening, the same thing. A full fridge, a hungry family, and absolutely no idea what to make. Not because there wasn't food — because the decision itself was exhausting. I didn't need more recipes. I needed someone to look at what I already had and just tell me what to make.
I'm not an engineer. But after twenty years working alongside them, I knew what to ask for — just not how to build it myself. So I picked up a whole new tech stack and used AI as my co-pilot. Turns out, you can build a product that runs on AI using AI.
Six weeks. 58 TestFlight builds. One working app.
If you're a parent in your 40s, you know this feeling deeply. But honestly — anyone who's ever stared at a full fridge and drawn a blank is who this is for.
By evening, you've made a thousand small decisions and "what's for dinner?" lands like one too many. That constant hum — what to buy, what's going bad, what's quick enough — it's exhausting. It's not a failure of planning. It's just a lot.
FixDinner turns down that noise. That's literally why it's called FixDinner — just fix it, so I can move on.
If you've tried meal planning — you know how that goes. You spend Sunday mapping out the week, then by Thursday the plan is out the window.
But the groceries aren't. They're in your fridge, quietly going bad, because the right night never came.
FixDinner doesn't ask you to plan. It meets you where you are — tonight, with whatever's in your kitchen right now.
Hand the app to someone else in your house. They can fix dinner tonight. A sharing feature is on the way — so everyone's out of excuses.
You don't need specialty ingredients, expensive equipment, or two hours of free time. You need a nudge.
I don't want you dependent on an app. I want you to build confidence — to open the fridge and start to just know.
That's the whole point. But your teenagers might love it — and I'll be here when you're in a rut again.
Behind every suggestion is a carefully engineered prompt that took weeks to get right. Early on, the AI suggested a cookie recipe without sugar. It once blocked "ginger" because part of the word matched something from the adults-only shelf — the app is designed to be kid-friendly. Getting AI to be actually useful meant teaching it things no one thinks to specify.
You tap a few ingredients — whatever's about to expire, whatever you're in the mood for. You can even type "⅓ rotisserie chicken leftover." All the context ChatGPT would need three follow-up questions to figure out, built into one tap.
Founder, FixDinner · Sacramento, CA