Cooksy

Cooksy is an AI-powered smart recipe manager and assistant built to clear away the clutter from traditional food blogs. Import a recipe via a URL and it will help you focus only on what you need while in the kitchen. As a Product Manager for the last 6 years, my favorite part of my job was hands-down working with developers. I had zero technical knowledge when I started, but poked around and looked over the shoulders of enough developers over the years that I started to pick up all sorts of different parts of the process. I even started committing some (very minor) code to Production. I have always worked for startups, so I was fortunate to have the flexibility to learn and reach far beyond my role as a PM. Coosky started as a side project that was meant to help me further develop my practical development skills. I wishfully (and naïvely) thought it could get me into a Junior SE role without dedicated schooling. It was a product I knew at least I would use in my daily life solving a small but annoying problem I had with following recipes I found online. I never would have dreamed of actually getting it on the App Store, but my goal post kept moving until I decided I wanted to get it published just to say I did it. Many hours spent with ChatGPT later, Cooksy is a fully functioning (& totally free) app on the App Store, and I'm excited to keep adding features. Right now my favorite is the "Smart Steps" focused cooking feature that uses OpenAI to simplify and enhance every recipe's steps (eg. Smart Steps include ingredient measurements next to each ingredient right in the step.)

This is amazing! So clean and simple, and solves that super annoying "spam recipe" problem. I was able to download the app and import a recipe from one of the linked blogs, that's a huge feature! A few "wish list" items: 1. Full screen iPad app 2. Search across all blogs. For example if I search "chicken soup", it would search for that recipe across "Taste better from scratch", "feel good foodie", etc, and let the user choose one or more results to add to cooksy 3. Leaderboard of popular recipes that have already been imported. This would be even easier to add a recipe than browsing the blogs. 4. Add another recipe source: BBC Food Recipes 5. Connect recipes with the OpenAI Realtime API. When you're cooking, sometimes your hands are a mess and you don't even want to get your ipad screen dirty. It would be great to be able to just talk to your recipe like "OK, I'm done chopping the potatoes, whats next?" 6. Shopping list checklist: be able to select a few recipes and generate a shopping list checklist, where you could easily check off items you already have before shopping, and then check off items as you shop. 7. Show macros of recipes. Some sources (like the BBC Food Recipes) already have macronutrient stats, but for other blogs maybe they could be auto-generated via AI. Good luck and I'm really excited to start using this app regularly!