Joy takes the daily question of what to make off your plate. Tell it what you are in the mood for and what you have at home, and it builds your menu, finds recipes from the ingredients in your fridge, and writes the grocery list. In San Francisco it can book a real chef to come cook it for you. Built by Eat Cook Joy, which ran a personal chef service in real kitchens for years before turning it into software. Over 100,000 servings cooked and $250,000 paid out to local chefs.

Hi Product Hunt, I am Zainab, founder of Eat Cook Joy. Before this I built Facebook's first public health product, which reached over 30 million blood donors in its first year. What stuck with me is that products only work when they fit how people already behave. Joy came from something personal. I had lost over 100 pounds and was still exhausted by food. Not the cooking. The constant deciding. What to eat, is it healthy, do I have time, did I already make this on Tuesday. That invisible load never ends. So we started backwards. Instead of building an app first, we ran a real personal chef service, cooking in people's kitchens and watching how food decisions actually happen inside a household. Over 100,000 servings later, we turned what we learned into Joy. Tell Joy what you are in the mood for and what you have. It builds the menu around your schedule, budget and preferences, finds recipes from the ingredients already in your fridge, and puts together the grocery list. In San Francisco it can also book a real chef to come cook it for you. Our customers do not call it convenient. They call it relief. I would love your honest feedback, especially on where it still gets things wrong. What part of feeding yourself wears you down most: the deciding, the shopping, or the cooking?

the fact that you spent years running an actual chef service before building this gives it real credibility, you can tell the recipe-matching actually understands what people cook at home rather than just scraping the web

Joy

Your cooking copilot for home

Your cooking copilot for home