Hey PH 👋 I'm Ayush. I've spent 20 years shipping products for others. FamilyPlate is the first thing I've built for myself. Why I built this: The conversation that happens every evening in my house: "What should we make tomorrow?" It usually ends with no clear answer and the same 15 dishes rotating on repeat. I have a family of four. I'm 43, cutting weight (1,800 kcal/day). My wife is not cutting weight but needs ~1,500 kcal. My teenager is very active in sports and needs 2000-2,500 kcal. My 5-year-old needs balanced growth nutrition. We are an Indian vegetarian household. I tried many apps. All are built for solo users. None of them has a concept of "one shared dish with per-person portion logic." So I tool upon the challenge and over a weekend using Next.js, Firebase, and Claude AI. I used Claude Sonnet for meal planning (it handles the nutritional reasoning well), Haiku for cheaper mechanical tasks like grocery deduplication, and Inngest for async background jobs so the AI calls don't timeout. The thing I didn't expect: Tweaking of AI prompts took ~3 hours. The hard part was product — how do you model "one dish, many portions" in a database schema, what does the UI feel like at 7 am half-awake, when does the grocery list generate relative to plan confirmation? What it is right now: - Daily and weekly AI meal plans for Indian vegetarian households - Per-member portions + add-ons in each recipe - Step-by-step recipes written for an Indian kitchen - Generate a grocery list for the meal plan with WhatsApp share - Invite link for your partner to see the same household plan - PWA — installs from browser, no app store needed - Free to use, sign in with Google What it isn't (yet): Built for Indian vegetarian households specifically. If you eat meat or non-Indian cuisine, the plans won't be relevant. Working on expanding this, but being honest upfront. I'm using it daily with my family. Happy to answer any questions about the architecture, the prompt design, or the Indian nutrition data problem (spoiler: no good public API exists for Indian home-cooked food nutrition — no API, just PDFs). Would love feedback — especially from anyone who's tried to solve meal planning for a family with mixed goals before.

FamilyPlate

One dish, right portions for everyone in the family.

One dish, right portions for everyone in the family.