

Hi from an indie developer building a cooking app
Hi everyone 👋 I’m Nihar, a software engineer and indie developer. I spend most of my time building products and experimenting with side projects. Recently I launched a small app called Mummy’s Cooking, which started from a pretty personal problem. As an international student living away from home, I wanted to cook more regularly but realized how messy meal planning can get. Recipes in...
Why is meal planning still so hard in 2026?
I’ve been thinking about this a lot while building my side project. Cooking itself isn’t that hard. But planning what to cook every week somehow feels unnecessarily complicated. Recipes are saved in random places. Grocery lists live in another app. And meal planning usually ends up being a mix of notes, screenshots, and memory. When I was an international student living away from home, this...
