Notes from the kitchen.
Launch updates, build stories, and the honest reality of building PantryPulse solo. Looking for kitchen how-tos? Those live over on the Tips page.
The shelf I never look at.
I spent months building an app so food would stop disappearing into the back of a cabinet. Then I went and looked in the back of my own cabinet. It was not a great look for me.
Read post →The jar of grape jelly that started household mode.
Before PantryPulse was even an idea, I came home from the store and found a second jar of grape jelly already in the fridge. Nobody's fault. That's exactly why the app tracks a household, not just a person.
Read post →The part nobody posts about.
Some days building this feels like magic. Some days it just feels heavy. This is one of the heavy ones: slow growth, no ad money, the comparison trap, and why I'm not stopping anyway.
Read post →Three conversations that proved I wasn't building this just for me.
I almost didn't build PantryPulse. I thought I was the only person who couldn't keep track of what was in his own fridge. A group project planted the seed, three conversations later sealed it, and that is how each piece of the app got there.
Read post →I got tired of throwing out food. So I built an app.
PantryPulse started in my kitchen, the same kitchen where a pint of blueberries once turned fuzzy behind a bottle of maple syrup. Here is the story of why I built it, what it does, and what is coming next.
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