🍛 Chicken and Vegetable Curry with Basmati Rice
Nutritional values per serv.
Protein🍖68 g
Carbs🍞64 g
Calories⚡765 kcal
Fat🧈20 g
Main questMy product
Delicious meals
in seconds
My own AI cooking app. Snap your fridge, say what you have or type it in, and YouCook hands you the perfect recipe. Then it plans your week and writes the shopping list. I designed, built, published and marketed it myself.
- Live on iOS
- Live on Android
- 2024 – 2025
Photo, voice or text in A recipe in seconds Step-by-step cook mode AI chef chat Weekly meal plans Automatic shopping lists Cook reminders
The problem
“What can I cook with what I have?”
It’s a daily question, and recipe sites answer it badly.
Tired of spending hours searching for the perfect recipe online, just to find out you’re missing one of the ingredients? That’s the moment I built YouCook for.
You no longer have to
- Spend hours looking for recipes online
- Figure out you’re missing ingredients
- Get frustrated and quit
YouCook generates the perfect recipe for you
- Uses ingredients you have at home
- Fits your diet and preferences
- Tastes amazing every time
How it works
Zero decisions.
Just dinner.
You tap. YouCook handles the ingredients, the steps, the timing and the substitutions.
- 1 Add your ingredientsSnap your fridge, say them out loud or type them in.
- 2 Choose your preferencesMeal, flavour, cuisine. Or just say what you fancy.
- 3 Get your perfect recipeSteps, timings and nutrition, ready in seconds.
Cook mode
Follow along.
Don’t think.
Clear steps, precise timing, no guesswork. Just execute.
- 👣One step at a time, with every amount spelled out
- ⏱️Timers built into the steps that need them
- ✨The AI chef one tap away if you get stuck
AI chef chat
Out of eggs?
We’ve got you.
Substitutions, adjustments and answers on demand. The recipe adapts to you.
Every recipe comes with its own chef to talk to. Ask what sauté means, swap the butter or ask for a tip, without leaving the step you’re on.
Meal plans
Your week, planned in seconds
Full meal plans generated on demand, built around your diet and your schedule. No searching, no comparing, no thinking.
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Mon · Breakfast Greek Yogurt Berry Smoothie Bowl -
Mon · Lunch Mediterranean Quinoa Salad -
Mon · Dinner One-Skillet Lemon Herb Chicken -
Tue · Breakfast Avocado Toast with Poached Eggs -
Tue · Lunch Asian Chicken Lettuce Wraps -
Tue · Dinner Sheet-Pan Sweet Potato & Salmon -
Wed · Breakfast Overnight Oats with Banana -
Wed · Dinner Beef Stir-Fry with Broccoli -
Thu · Breakfast Spinach & Feta Omelette -
Thu · Lunch Thai Peanut Noodle Bowl
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Thu · Dinner Grilled Shrimp Tacos -
Fri · Breakfast Banana Pancakes with Maple Syrup -
Fri · Lunch Greek Chicken Pita Wrap -
Fri · Dinner Creamy Tuscan Pasta -
Sat · Breakfast Eggs Benedict with Hollandaise -
Sat · Lunch Vietnamese Banh Mi Sandwich -
Sat · Dinner Herb-Crusted Rack of Lamb -
Sun · Breakfast French Toast with Berries -
Sun · Lunch Caesar Salad with Grilled Chicken -
Sun · Dinner Sunday Roast Chicken
Shopping lists
One tap.
Shopping list.
Every meal plan writes its own list, grouped and measured. Tick things off as you shop.
Shopping List
Shopping · Tuesday
- 🌾Steel-Cut Oats40g✓
- 🥛Plant Milk320ml✓
- 🫘Chickpeas1 cup cooked✓
- 🍚Brown Rice1 cup cooked✓
- 🍌Banana1 medium✓
- 🎃Pumpkin Seeds30g✓
Add ingredient
Cook reminders
Your meals
run themselves.
A nudge at the time you choose, and tonight’s recipe is waiting when you open the app.
Shipped and marketed
I didn’t stop at the code.
I published YouCook on the App Store and Google Play, designed the store screenshots below, built youcookapp.com in Next.js and ran the Meta ads myself.
- Product design
- Flutter app
- Backend + AI
- Store listings
- Website
- Meta ads
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A Meta ad I made
Under the hood
The recipe behind
the recipes
I made every call: what to build, which AI handles which job, how to charge for it and how to sell it.
RecipeYouCook - Serves
- iOS + Android
- Chef
- Me, start to finish
- Cooked
- 2024 – 2025
Ingredients
- 1 Flutter codebase for iOS and Android
- Firebase for sign-in, data and storage
- Cloud Functions so every AI call runs on the server
- OpenAI vision to read the photo of your fridge
- Whisper to turn a voice note into a list
- Groq + OpenAI models to write recipes, steps and lists
- An image model to picture each new dish
- RevenueCat for subscriptions, a pinch
- Next.js for youcookapp.com
Method
- 1 Make input effortless. A photo, a voice note or a few typed words. Nobody wants to type out their whole fridge.
- 2 One model per job. Each task goes to the model that does it fast and cheap, instead of one big model for everything.
- 3 Watch the costs. Every AI call runs in a Cloud Function that checks who’s asking and logs the tokens it used, so I could see what each recipe cost.
- 4 One codebase, two stores. Flutter let me ship to the App Store and Google Play from the same code.
- 5 Sell it myself. The website, the store screenshots and the Meta ads were mine too.
What I learned
Downloads are cheap.
Paying is the real test.
I’d rather learn this on my own product than on a client’s budget.
Getting downloads was cheap: about £0.60 each on Meta ads.
Getting people to pay was much harder.
Validate the moment someone pays before building everything around it.
That lesson shapes how I scope every client product now.
— Yanis
Want something like this built? I decide, AI types. You own the code. Fixed price.