Deciding what's for dinner every single night, forever
“We eat the same 15 meals — the problem isn't recipes, it's the nightly negotiation. Meal apps want to put me on a keto journey; I want something to just say Tuesday is tacos and put it on the list.”— Hacker News ↗
Meal-planning apps are diet-first and recipe-discovery-first — HN threads literally ask for 'rotate our own meals every 4–6 weeks and make the shopping list' and come up empty. A rotation over YOUR family's approved meals with an auto grocery list is the boring tool nobody ships.
Households tired of the daily 'what's for dinner' loop
Build a family meal rotation planner in Next.js. Users maintain a pool of their own meals (name + ingredients); a generator fills next week avoiding anything served in the last N weeks, and merges the week's ingredients into one grocery checklist. Share the week read-only via link. First 3 steps: (1) meal + ingredient data model and a pool editor, (2) the rotation generator (no repeats within N weeks, optional per-meal weight), (3) the week view + merged grocery checklist with check-off state.