Will it be a stealth startup if i’ll explain what i plan to do?

So stealth, so startup, so uncompleted

I think no :)

Long story short: I’m building a platform for recipe creators and other people, related to food. I think that this is my aim.
But I’m pretty sure that idea will evolve in future.

Right now it’s a different project that i have in my head.

I plan to convert options below into modules that will become a big & complex platform, build like puzzle or Frankenstein

Dry details or what was done(completed or in-progress parts).

Let’s assume that I’ll made them online available — what you’ll be able to see and touch.

#1 Recipes App

✔️ Release #1 completed(Free Menu)

Build with: Angular, Ionic Framework v.1

Note: soon I’ll redo an app from scratch.

Note: yep, any junior can do an app with similar complexity — not a rocket science :)

Basic functionality:

• Screen with recipes list
• Recipe details
• Basic grocery list
• Login screen.

#2 Stripe subscriptions dashboard

Was created by Eddy

In a few previous projects we have a problems with recurring events, so I pick Stripe at this time in order to simplicity. I cloned an open repo and update packages, change routes, make it better by my opinion.

✔️ Release #1 completed

Basic functionality:

• Sign up process
• Pick a plan + Billing
• View profile + Billing settings
• Switch subscription plan
• Subscribe / unsubscribe Note: User sensitive data not stored on our server for security reasons

Note: in later releases, i want to enable Recurly integration — because it’s better. It’s not free. Will work only for a big clients

#3 An API for meal planning Apps(simple version)

Swagger explorer. Each section contain list of endpoints

My main goal was to create a simple tool that any can use in order to setup a recipe based website. Any person that has credentials can use our data(imported to database) or store data in our database no matter of programming language.

✔️ Release #0 completed.

✔️ Release #1 started. Partially completed by option#9

✔️ Release #3 completed. In order to have ability to test option#10

Basic functionality:

• Authentification
• Database scheme (simple version + tables related to search functionality)
• Save data into DB. Data manipulations.

Build with: Node.js Foundation, ExpressJs, Loopback Framework v.3

#4 Simple Finance Tracking tool(expense tracking)

• How much family spend per week? How to meet financial goals, etc.

✔️ Research stage completed.

#5 Meal Planning App(2nd generation of option #1)

Build with:

• React Native
• Data can be stored as JSON or call server from option#3
• For UI we will use some creative and free ui template — react based

Formed a team. Creating a long-term project management plan. Release #0 will mimic and kill option#1 (Thanks to god!)

#6 Simple admin dashboard (without options to configure).

Main feature -> add a recipe to database. Drag them into Weekly Menu. Publish, send weekly menu notifications. Maybe upload images, but i’m lazy to do it myself.

✔️ Release #1 can be completed after binding with option#3 API calls and data

I think I must use Forest. I follow this company last few years and Sandro Munda did a great job. As i lazy and can be bored by coding ‘adminca’ again — this will be my timesaver. You can read more about it here: https://medium.com/into-the-forest

#7 API Documentation

It’s not completed — i told you

In order to provide API services or give ability people to call your API we must have a good and understandable documentation. Right now this documentation is a mess, not completed, can be extended. But I change my API a lot of time, so maybe when we’ll bump some serious release — i’ll finish this it. I use Apiary and looks better than Swagger :) And it backed by Oracle. So it’s really cool.

✔️ I think that Release #0 of this documentation is completed. And it’s easy to add data related to Release #1 and Release #2 — because i have similar data generated by Loopback Framework(baked by IBM) and Swagger

#8 Project Management Plan

Yeah, bad titles, I know

For each of this projects, I have created: step-by-step plan, split tasks for milestones, and moved not finished tasks to backlog. Trying to simplify things, manage myself, interns & try to work better. Made this approach working for me. But still trying to hack it and improve.

Using Asana, GitHub, Slack, Gmail for my routine.

✔️ Stage 2: For at least 2 projects PM work was done 3 month ago

#9 Grocery list(Shopping list)

yep, todo list, junior complexity

This is ma baby:) It’s the only one project that was completed and visible online. It’s a web app only.

Basic functionality:

• Simple add / list / edit / Delete categories and items
• All code and structure are from my head or by my googling skills.
• Have simple API, can be combined with mobile app
• Facebook Auth
• Core is Loopback API
• Ultimate Grocery List template was imported for easy cloning

✔️ Release #0 completed

✔️ Release #1 completed

✔ Now I want to separate frontend and backend — cause it messy. Other 2 big goals — clean up code (Release 1.3) and extend our library of grocery list templates. Trying to use Machine Learning in order to add +100 templates

#10 Advanced search functionality

I was inspired by this code repo. It looks cool, open sourced and call an outside API.

We recreating it from scratch, using React.

✔ Research finished

✔ Release #0 in process it can be fully operational soon, because we can send an api calls and get a real result from Recipe API server

✔ Release #1 will be about design and optimization API requests

#11 Unit conversions (research stage)

I really know how it can be a huge pain for developers, db architect, rather than how to make it simple, not buggy and awesome. But i’ll convert that knowledge into a npm library

#12 Data parsing(deep research stage with previous completed functionality knowledge)

I think i find a good way to do it. I didn’t want to create it from scratch so i’ll borrow code that New York Times was open sourced.

Our Tagged Ingredients Data is Now on GitHub

#13 Marketing

I’ve made a cool video in 2 minutes. This is just words, nobody care about it usually.

Working on Startup Pitch Deck right now. I think it’s not important. But we’ll see.

Using Slidebean, Crello Image Editor, Canva Team, Biteable

If you’re interested to hear more, please notify me. Clap few times, cause you spend your time to read it 100%.

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