I’m Tai, the solo founder of ShareChef AI.

A year ago, when I decided to build ShareChef AI, I was completely clueless about app development, let alone how to code.

I barely understood how to even download VS Code. I was afraid of putting a file in the wrong folder. I copied and pasted code, made mistakes, fixed one thing, broke another, and kept trying.

But I couldn’t let go of the reason I wanted to build this.

As a mother, I kept thinking about young people leaving home for the first time. College students living in dorms or apartments with roommates, opening an almost empty fridge with maybe an equally empty wallet.

What if they only had two ingredients?

Could they still make something that felt like a home cooked meal?

What if someone could simply say, “You have enough. Here’s what we can make,” and then stay with them, step by step, until dinner was ready?

I thought about working mothers too.

The mother who can’t always be home when her kids get hungry shouldn’t have to feel guilty about it. Her teenager shouldn’t automatically have to order delivery because Mom is still at work.

I imagined that teenager opening ShareChef, telling Micheli what was in the kitchen, and having a chef right there talking them through dinner.

Then I started thinking about something else.

Food is expensive. Delivery is expensive. Time is expensive.

We buy groceries, bring them home, and then on a tired night we look into the refrigerator, decide there is “nothing to eat,” and order Uber Eats or DoorDash anyway.

We’re paying twice for dinner.

And sometimes the food we already paid for ends up in the trash.

I wanted to interrupt that cycle.

Use the food you already bought. Skip the extra grocery run. Skip the delivery fee when you can. Waste less. Save time. Save money. Make a real meal.

That idea became ShareChef AI.

You tell Micheli what you have by voice or text, even if it’s only two ingredients. She figures out what you can make and then cooks with you completely out loud, one step at a time, so your hands stay on the food.

You can interrupt her. Ask a question. Change an ingredient. Tell her you’re confused. Ask why something works. She adapts and stays with you until the meal is on the table.

She remembers allergies and dietary preferences, adapts to your cooking level, speaks multiple languages, and never judges what’s left in your fridge.

I built ShareChef for students stretching a grocery budget, young people learning to feed themselves, working parents, single parents, teenagers cooking while Mom or Dad is still at work, and anyone who has ever stared into a refrigerator at 7 PM wondering what on earth they were supposed to make.

There is usually something to eat.

Sometimes we just need someone to show us what it can become.

Thinking about all of those people is why I learned how to code.

Not because I dreamed of becoming a developer.

Because I wanted this idea to exist.

There were a lot of long nights, a lot of errors, and definitely some tears. But somehow, one error message at a time, ShareChef became real.

I’m still learning. I’m probably not the most technical founder on Product Hunt.

But today someone can open ShareChef with an almost empty fridge and hear, “We can make something with that.”

That means more to me than I can explain.

ShareChef AI is free for early users and has no ads. If you try it, I genuinely want to hear everything. What confused you, what surprised you, what you loved, what didn’t work, and what you think Micheli should learn next.

Thank you for giving something I learned to build from scratch a place here.