Building SousSmart, in public
Two things live here. Dispatches from building the app — the bugs a real kitchen finds, the decisions behind what shipped. And guides on the thing the app exists to solve: getting a whole meal to finish at once. No fluff, no giving away the recipe box.
Build log · July 24, 2026
Why I'm building a cooking app that throws out your recipe's timing →
Recipe apps store recipes and timers count down numbers that were never true in your kitchen. Here's why I'm building SousSmart to re-plan dinner as you cook.
Build log · July 24, 2026The roast that trapped me in my own app →
A three-hour turkey exposed a wrong assumption in SousSmart's cooking screen: one step at a time. Here's the bug I cooked into it, and the redesign that fixed it.
Free toolThe Dinner Planner →Enter your dishes and dinner time, get exact start times.The app · the moatThe Dynamic Timeline →How SousSmart re-plans a meal in real time as reality changes.Free guideThanksgiving Dinner Timeline →Cook backward so the turkey and every side finish at once.Free guideChristmas Dinner Timeline →Time a roast dinner so nothing's cold and nothing's waiting.
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