The story behind Recimarry
Like a lot of people, I'd get to dinnertime with no idea what to cook. I work on the backend, so a mobile app was new territory for me — but once the tools were good enough, I went for it. A recipe app was the obvious pick: it was the thing I dealt with every single day.
My first attempt was the "clever" version — scan your receipts, track your pantry, get recommendations. Sounded great, except I didn't like anything it suggested, and keeping a pantry list updated was a chore. So I flipped it to what I actually wanted: a simple way to keep the recipes I already liked, instead of screenshotting them into my camera roll and never finding them again. Best call I made.
My sister, who saves recipes off Facebook constantly, became my first tester and toughest critic. We both use it every day now — I've got around 300 recipes in there. Most nights I just open the app and scroll until something looks good, or filter by whatever I'm craving, and I rate things after cooking so I remember which ones only looked good.
Honestly, I'm not trying to get rich off this — the app doesn't pay me a cent, and I'm okay with that. My goal is simple: enough subscribers to cover what it costs to keep running. Around 50 would do it. That's not a salary, that's servers. If you subscribe, that's literally what you're helping with. Either way, Recimarry is just the app I wanted for myself — and I'm still using it every day, still tinkering with it.
