Your AI sous chef. From finding the recipe to dinner on the table.

PlanShopChop is the hobby project that turned into a real product. An AI sous chef for busy families. It collects all your recipes in one place, helps you build the week's plan, generates a shopping list, and stays by your side while you cook.

It started simple. I wanted to stop staring at the fridge on Sunday wondering what to cook. It became a sandbox for the AI ideas I kept wanting to try. A chef I can chat with when I need inspiration. A way to pull recipes off any website, or out of a photo of grandma's index card. A cookbook that stands in for the one on the counter when my hands are full and I just need to know if I should add the garlic now or later.

It's live at planshopchop.com. Under the hood: React on Cloudflare Pages, FastAPI on Railway, Supabase for data and auth, Stripe for billing, and a chain of LLM calls doing the heavy lifting: parsing recipes from the messy web, reading them off photographed recipe cards, and walking a cook through dinner in real time.

I keep building it because it gives me a way to practice the craft of shipping consumer AI inside a part of life I actually care about. Cooking, family meals, and the way a kitchen runs are the territory where the work feels worth doing.