I’m a cook and I built a kitchen app with Fable to replace my spreadsheets
Hi everyone, I’m a cook. I had a folder full of spreadsheets for labor, costing, invoices, etc. It wasn’t bad, but I thought it could be better. Now with AI being as good as it is now, I figured I'd try to build the kitchen thing properly. The food-costing part works now. When I need to work out what a recipe costs, I paste it in the way I'd normally write it: 620 g flour 410 g water 13 g salt It picks out the ingredients and quantities, then uses the prices I’ve put in to calculate the cost (or pull from an invoice). It can also generate a Nutrition Facts label using USDA data. I can share recipes with people I work with and they can scale them, a bit like sharing Google Docs or Sheets. I'm working on the invoice part now. The idea is you match an invoice item to an ingredient once, say butter from a vendor, and it remembers that match for future invoices from that supplier. Still in progress. Right now I'd really like people to test the recipe side. If there are any chefs, bakers, food-truck operators, or other people running small food businesses here willing to run a few recipes through it, I'd really appreciate it. I'm not looking for compliments. I want to know: What was annoying? Did any of the costs or scaled quantities look wrong? It's Forkluck.com . It's open source so you can host it yourself for free too.