Comment by coopykins
2 years ago
I built https://getweeklio.com/ mostly for myself, it's an app to organise weekly meal plans/shopping list that you can use with multiple users. I use it with my wife, since we had a child and it has been useful, thought it was mostly an excuse to learn react native at the time.
I started to add some more features like asking chat gpt meal plans and other things I have on my mind but I haven't gotten around implementing yet.
Then I thought: I might as well make it a full fledged product and see how it goes, which was an interesting exercise in itself, although I haven't promoted it, and the monetisation strategy definitely needs some work. Not many are willing to pay monthly for such a limited set of features. Maybe a small one time payment will do better.
Currently is on an hiatus as I changed jobs recently but I'd like to work on it some more.
I've been meaning to ask for some directions about marketing it to get some feedback. There's a handful of users that have tried it, but none even bother with the first month free trial to check the full version features. Perhaps these should be fully available for a time and then put them after the paywall again.
But building a product has helped me a lot on interviews so that's another nice outcome at least.
Neat thing. I like the idea! We're having the same talk at home to optimize meal planning. Adding new meals along the way and have a greater library of meals we like to choose from. Currently I'm using Evernote with tags for different types of meal, all stored in one giant notebook. Previously I had my own server exporting this notebook and metadata to HTML and randomize a meal on-the-fly. Works OK but no weekly planning in that setup.
If I would go all in for an app like this, I would need to have the ability to export all the data. Since you are a single developer and one never knows what will happen in the future etc.