tylertreat (u/tylertreat)

tylertreat commented on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025) · Posted by u/david927

speff · 13 hours ago

We're actually in a unique situation where the planning+buying isn't the hard part, but the deciding is. We're within walking distance of a super-cheap grocery store and I'm able to cook a wide variety of dishes - many of which I can make quickly. The hard part is my wife doesn't do well with open-ended questions like "what would you like to eat"? Seeing a discrete list of things I can make and her just picking/submitting the options would solve the problem.

Though that only holds while we have free time. If we have a kid, then I can see a great amount of value in that app.

tylertreat · 12 hours ago

I posted this in another comment but couldn't help but notice this discussion since it seemed relevant. I've been working on https://mealsyoulove.com, which is a meal planning app that also integrates with Kroger and Instacart for ordering groceries. Jow looks similar (not sure what their pricing model is?), but I'm leveraging AI to build highly tailored recipes and meal plans while allowing you to also import your own recipes to incorporate.

tylertreat commented on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025) · Posted by u/david927

tylertreat · 12 hours ago

https://mealsyoulove.com

Basically personalized meal planning and grocery integration. Since the Show HN I posted a couple months back I've been incorporating user feedback to add things like meal prepping, better ingredient reuse across meals, and cooking style preferences.

One of the biggest points of feedback has been adding more grocery stores but I'm really limited by who has APIs to actually integrate with, which is basically just Kroger and Instacart. Walmart has an API but ignored my API access request. Would love to hear if anyone has ideas on how to approach this.

tylertreat commented on Show HN: Meals You Love – AI-powered meal planning and grocery shopping mealsyoulove.com... · Posted by u/tylertreat

jimmydin7 · a month ago

llooks nice, but also way too vibecoded. maybe fix the page before launching

tylertreat · a month ago

Sorry, fix what page? I'm not sure I understand.

tylertreat commented on Show HN: Meals You Love – AI-powered meal planning and grocery shopping mealsyoulove.com... · Posted by u/tylertreat

ofrzeta · 2 months ago

What's a good LLM for this kind of task?

tylertreat · 2 months ago

Gemini 2.5 Flash works quite well for it.

tylertreat commented on Show HN: Meals You Love – AI-powered meal planning and grocery shopping mealsyoulove.com... · Posted by u/tylertreat

paulharvard · 2 months ago

Gonna try this out - I love the cook mode, the shopping list is helpful and that I can change out recipes for the days is great. I also like adding my own. Cool stuff

tylertreat · 2 months ago

Let me know what you think or if there are areas that can be improved!

tylertreat commented on Show HN: Meals You Love – AI-powered meal planning and grocery shopping mealsyoulove.com... · Posted by u/tylertreat

lm28469 · 2 months ago

AI slop enjoyers want to delegate every single aspects of their lives to AI. For them cooking is an insult to their intellect, writing a personal message to someone is a waste of time, &c.

Why bother with cookbooks when you can cook the statistical average of spaghetti carbonara ?

Why bother spending 10 minutes of brain power when you can just pay 9.99 a month for a machine to tell you what to do ?

tylertreat · 2 months ago

I get the skepticism as I shared similar thoughts on what recipe quality would be like. I'm also quite sensitive to AI slop. My wife, who really is an outstanding cook, was even more skeptical, and she has a _very_ high bar for recipes. To be clear, we don't use it to generate recipes for every meal. She has a collection of go-to favorites and then peppers in 1-2 AI recipes throughout the week, often to explore new things. She also uses it to create "Quick Bite" recipes for when we need something fast with whatever we have on hand, outside of an actual meal plan.

Honestly, I wasn't sure if the AI recipes were going to meet her standards when it comes to food, but so far she's been quite happy overall with the recipe quality. She often will request replacements or customizations, so the first pass suggestions are not always what she's looking for.

I realize it's definitely not for everyone though.

tylertreat commented on Show HN: Meals You Love – AI-powered meal planning and grocery shopping mealsyoulove.com... · Posted by u/tylertreat

ibdf · 2 months ago

I think I might have the wrong concept of meal planning. For me, it should be simple meals using fewer ingredients and most importantly reusing ingredients you already have. During the meal creation, I asked to keep it to 1 protein source, but it gave me recipes for 4 different protein types. I cannot possibly be buying salmon, chicken and 2 different cuts of meat each week. The other ingredients follow the same pattern.

tylertreat · 2 months ago

I'm sorry you hit that as it should definitely respect instructions around things like protein sources and ingredient selection. I'll take a look at that.

tylertreat commented on Show HN: Meals You Love – AI-powered meal planning and grocery shopping mealsyoulove.com... · Posted by u/tylertreat

sanex · 2 months ago

This looks great. Was just talking about how an app with these exact features would really help me out. Will give it a try.

tylertreat · 2 months ago

Please let me know what you think. I really value any and all feedback!

tylertreat commented on Show HN: Meals You Love – AI-powered meal planning and grocery shopping mealsyoulove.com... · Posted by u/tylertreat

mips_avatar · 2 months ago

Sorry it’s a bit of a nitpick.

tylertreat · 2 months ago

Not at all a nitpick, it is one of the things that is painful in the app IMO. I think the length of time for some of the operations is one of the bigger reasons for people to bounce after initial sign up. I need to think if there are some clever ways to improve the onboarding experience such as trying to pre-generate some recipes during/after the onboarding flow.