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Michael Seibel

Kitchenful - Meal planning and groceries, done for you

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Kitchenful is an app for personalized recommendations of recipes that also gets you the ingredients delivered from a local grocery store. They offer the same convenience as meal kits do, but with better personalization at a lower price point.

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Christian Schiller
Maker
👋 Hey PH, I’m Christian and here together with my co-founder and namesake, Christian, we are the founders of Kitchenful. ⛔️ The problem Prior to starting Kitchenful I worked at HelloFresh (popular meal kit service) for over 4 years. As a user myself, I found that the service wasn’t flexible enough to accommodate my personal preferences. It also didn’t relieve me of having to head to the grocery store, as I still required breakfast ingredients, snacks and beverages etc. However, without a meal kit, my girlfriend and I found ourselves burdened by the question of “What should we have for dinner?” nearly every day. It was annoying for both of us. To solve this, we started sketching meal plans on the weekend and then ordering groceries online for home delivery. Amazingly, this changed our whole mood and feeling throughout the week. We found ourselves eating better and feeling better in the process. Unfortunately, the meal planning and placing the related order still took me hours. ✅ The solution With a technical background, I was interested in automating the process as much as possible so that we could stick with it, and just like that; Kitchenful was born. With Kitchenful, our users receive a curated menu of recipes according to their personal preferences and dietary requirements each week. They can easily choose recipes and add additional products from their grocer’s inventory to the cart (you can also deselect ingredients which you already have at home, so you only get what you need to cook). Kitchenful then takes care of placing the order on behalf of the user, minimizing food waste (e.g. by using pantry items and providing left over ideas) and saving valuable time for the user. In a nutshell, you’ll get: 1. A weekly meal plan that offers a delicious variety of simple meals and doesn't require you to think 2. Grocery lists, with the ingredients then delivered by your local supermarket 3. Peace of mind that meals are aligned with your tastes, health goals and cooking abilities By helping people to eat better and save time and energy on meal planning and grocery shopping, we believe we can help them feel better and have more energy for family, friends, work, and hobbies. We’d love to hear about your own experiences with cooking at home throughout the week and discovering new dishes. We’ve also set up a 14-Day free trial period for anyone who’s interested in trying our service out: https://www.kitchenful.com. Any ideas/feedback/questions you might have about what we’re building are more than welcome! Thank you!
Mandi Galluch
@sch1ller Congratulations on the launch! The origin story reminds me so much of our "why" at Speechly. Calling out my own bias toward voice tech here but I would love a voice integration that would let me speak and adjust the ingredients needed hands-free as I checked my fridge and pantry.
Alyssa X
Oh this is amazing! I've been using recipe boxes for the convenience of not having to think of what meals to make and figuring out all the ingredients, but it can get pricey, it doesn't really let you customize the meals, and there really aren't that many plant-based options usually (seems like you've got a dedicated category for it though?). This sounds just perfect. It seems like it's US only though? Would love if it was available too in the UK! :)
Christian Schiller
Maker
@alyssaxuu Thanks Alyssa! Yes, we serve a lot of users who are especially interested in plant-based meals. Currently we focus on the US, but feel free to leave your contact details here so we can notify you once we’re live in the UK: https://forms.gle/YLWxpqtGbNyLhfDfA
Sri Teja
Congrats on the launch team!
Christian Schiller
Maker
@sri_teja1 Thanks Sri Teja!
Aaron Careford
Super excited! Can’t wait til it’s available outside the US
Christian Schiller
Maker
@acareford great to have you in the team!
Mehdi Djabri
Great concept and beautiful design, I will try this! Does it work in Europe? Congrats on the launch @sch1ller and @christian_hartung !
Christian Schiller
Maker
@mehdidjabri Thank you Mehdi! We are currently focussed on serving customers across the U.S. but have set up a global waiting list so we can reach out to interested people once we are live internationally. Everyone outside the U.S. feel free to leave your contact details here: https://forms.gle/YLWxpqtGbNyLhfDfA
Sara Marquart
Super cool!
Christian Schiller
Maker
@sara_marquart Thank you Sara! We are fans of QOA as well!
Florian Buguet
Cool idea, congrats on the launch! What geographical area do you cover?
Christian Schiller
Maker
@flobbgt Thanks Florian! We are currently serving customers across the US.
Anurag Meena
Congratulations!!🚀🚀 @sch1ller & @christian_hartung Super cool concept and product
Christian Schiller
Maker
@ianuragit really like the testing card approach of Neodocs! We should have a coffee chat again soon :)
Farokh Shahabi
Lots of people need sth like this, very nice! It would be cool to see diets based on calories per day as well!
Christian Schiller
Maker
@farokh_shahabi Thanks Farokh! Couldn’t agree more, the before & after feeling once you used a tool like Kitchenful for the weekly dinners is definitely eye opening. With regards to the calories per day: We like the idea of showing more nutritional details around the weekly menu and will experiment with it! In the onboarding survey we already ask for personal goals and consider them when compiling the suggestions.
Fivos Tsoukatos
This is really exciting! Great idea and product ;) Congrats on the launch team!
Christian Schiller
Maker
@fivos Thanks Fivos, it's great to have your support!
Ike Jin Park
Congratulations on the launch 🎉 Would love to see y'all expand globally!
Christian Schiller
Maker
@ike_jin_park1 Thanks Ike! You'll be the first we will reach out to when expanding đź‘Ť
Margarida Penedos
Love the meal planner + automated groceries combo. Amazing idea to save time and make sure you don't cook the same meal for 5 days in a row! Can't wait until it's available here 🌍
Christian Schiller
Maker
@aodenep getting out of the own rut was one of the biggest motivators to build Kitchenful! 🙌
Pavlos Pavlakis
Great product offering, congrats on the launch!
Christian Schiller
Maker
@pavlos_pavlakis1 Thank you Pavlos!
Phillip Daneshyar
This is the real GOAT way of sticking to a diet
Christian Schiller
Maker
@phillip_daneshyar Thanks Philip! I personally like the quote “You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.” from Atomic Habits by James Clear. Our ambition with Kitchenful is to offer a smart food assistant which by reducing the amount of decisions and time required helps people to stick to a healthy(-ish) diet.
Malte Delbrueck
Awesome product!
Christian Schiller
Maker
@delbrueckm Thank you Malte!
Fawzy Abu Seif
This looks awesome!
Christian Schiller
Maker
@fawzyabuseif Thanks Fawzy! Feel free to give it a try. Would be happy to serve you as a customer.
Rachel Levitz
Wow, awesome! I love cooking/kitchen/organization products! Kudos
Christian Hartung
Maker
@rachel_levitz thanks for the support Rachel!
Toby Urff
Looks promising, especially that ingredient-ordering bit! Congrats on the launch! Are you planning on launching his in more places? This could be powerful in all the European markets where Gorillas, Getir, Flink, et cetera are so popular now. You could select your dishes and start cooking 15 minutes later given they deliver so fast.
Christian Hartung
Maker
@tobiasurff Thank you for the feedback Toby! We are currently focussed on serving customers across the U.S. but have set up a global waiting list so we can reach out to interested people once we are live internationally. If you live outside the U.S. feel free to leave your contact details here: https://forms.gle/YLWxpqtGbNyLhfDfA
Matthew Watts
Congratulations on the launch. Super awesome!
Christian Hartung
Maker
@watts Glad you like it Matthew. Feel free to give it a try and share your feedback!
Alex Borsuk
How close I am to the problem that led you to this product. It also led me to start a service similar to Hello Fresh and Blue Apron in my home country. It's a shame it had to be shut down, of course, but it was an interesting experience. Very glad you went a step further and came up with an app like this! Your product is great and certainly deserves to be Product of the Day!
Christian Hartung
Maker
@alexander_borsuk Thanks for sharing your experience Alexander and supporting our Producthunt launch!