The hardest part of building an AI cooking app is not the chat interface.
It is ingredients.
One recipe says “1/2 onion.” another says "1 chopped onion".
A meal plan needs quantity, category, pantry state, duplicates, substitutions, and grocery list merging.
That gap looks small.
It is basically the whole product.
Most AI cooking apps start with the wrong problem.
They try to generate more recipes.
But most people already have too many recipes.
The real problem is turning messy food intent into action:
what can I cook?
what do I need?
what step am I on?
what can I substitute?
That is the part I care about.
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This is the meal plan app we all deserve.
One click. A full week. Built by August, our little AI chef.
Not random. Every recipe is vectorized and deeply tagged, then matched to your taste. Optimize for ingredient overlap, cost, health, whatever matters to you, the plan adapts in seconds.
Here's the "manual" mode. 👇
This is how I do programmatic SEO with evolving internal linking 👇
The content pipeline checks for related content in one file, that's it. Magic happens by itself.
It also has a "sprinkle keywords" feature so new pages always pick up a few extra keywords.
Most meal planning apps treat grocery lists like math homework.
Add a recipe and you get:
“2.5 avocados”
Cool. Let me just ask the cashier for half an avocado.
@fond_kitchen is built around a simple idea:
recipes are math, groceries are real life.
You need 3 avocados.
I used @submitsaas to give Fond’s new domain an early backlink push.
I don’t expect those links to carry the whole SEO strategy, but paired with useful content, they helped us get the first bit of momentum.
Food is not an easy niche, and we haven’t launched yet, but we’re already seeing 50-100 visits/day from SEO/GEO.
I was frustrated. No app out there manages home cooking the way I wanted:
→ One-click weekly meal plans
→ Editable recipes that respect your taste and health restrictions
→ Simple, flexible, with a deep ingredients system underneath
Everyone I talk to juggles multiple apps just to plan their home cooking.
So I built @fond_kitchen.
AI-first. Contextual to any page.
"Adapt this recipe to match my calorie goal"
"Generate a meal plan focused on Italian cooking for the week — but not Friday evening, I'm out at a restaurant with friends"
And most importantly: a grocery list that doesn't duplicate ingredients.
"Lemon zest" + "Lemon slice" + "5cl of lemon juice" = 1 lemon.
Nobody has cracked that yet. And it works in any language.
I post about my pizza dough calculator on X (@fond_kitchen) → 30 views, 0 likes.
I post one photo of the actual pizza on Reddit → 20k views, 250+ upvotes, 10 comments.
As a non-American, I completely underestimated Reddit's reach. Even a new account can explode instantly in the right sub.
Recipe: https://t.co/ByCPzWEewH
There are 200+ recipe apps out there.
We're building another one — and here's why it's different.
Most recipe apps work great if you cook Western-style meals, read English, and shop at a standard supermarket. But real cooking isn't like that.
It's your grandmother's mole from Oaxaca. Your neighbor's kimchi jjigae. That late-night TikTok pasta you saved. A tagine from a Moroccan food blog written entirely in French.
These recipes don't fit neatly into existing apps. We think they should.
That's why we built Fond.
Import a recipe from anywhere — a URL, a photo, a handwritten family card, even a foreign-language blog. The AI figures it out regardless of language or format.
Plan your week in minutes. One tap for a shopping list, no duplicates.
The recipe app space is crowded. But it's crowded with apps built for the same people.
We're building for everyone who cooks.
Early access is opening soon. If you're tired of apps that don't fit how you cook, join the waitlist -> https://t.co/zEh2r9to9H
Recipe apps have a hoarding problem.
Save this. Bookmark that. Import everything.
Average user: 200+ saved recipes. Maybe 10 actually cooked.
We built Fond around a different question: What are you actually cooking this week?
The library feeds the plan. The plan builds the list. The list gets you out of the store.
Join the waitlist https://t.co/zEh2r9to9H