Many meal planning apps are slow, over-complicated, or heavily gated behind subscriptions. I wanted a fast, flexible platform focused on usability and performance.
I wanted to build a real, production-ready web application that solves a practical problem and gives me full control over performance, architecture, and future expansion.
Sole developer - product design, backend architecture, frontend implementation, database design, and deployment.
Sole Developer
PHP / JS / MySQL
Live Product
User accounts and authentication
Weekly meal planning
Recipe saving and browsing
Responsive layout for desktop and mobile
Designing a flexible data model for meals and recipes
I built small, reusable internal tools instead of relying on large frameworks.
Keeping image-heavy pages fast
Built an image resizer so that only relevant sized images are used on the page.
Handling direct access to private users/meals
Built a check for profile data to ensure correct permissions are set before displaying content