SavedRecipe started as an idea sitting off to the side of the calculator universe.
I had a folder full of recipes, screenshots, half-organized ChatGPT notes, and a strong feeling that the current recipe-tool world was missing something important. Most cooking apps either act like static cookbooks or they ask for so much setup that normal people stop using them after a week.
What I wanted was simpler:
- help me figure out what to cook with what I already have
- help me stop wasting ingredients
- help me make food that feels more restaurant-quality and satisfying
- keep getting smarter about my preferences over time
That stopped feeling like "just another page on mitchreise.com" pretty quickly.
Why We Split It Out
This week I made a decision that had been coming for a while: SavedRecipe needed to become its own app.
That doesn't mean it left the reise-tools monorepo. It still lives inside the same larger system. But from a product point of view, it now has the cleaner shape it deserves:
mitchreise.comis the studio and launchboardsavedrecipe.comis the product marketing site and web app- the future mobile app will be another client for the same product system
That separation matters. When everything lives under one catch-all hub, the bigger ideas get buried. SavedRecipe isn't a calculator. It isn't a side note. It's a real product direction with its own audience, brand, and eventually its own app-store future.
What Actually Shipped
The last stretch of work wasn't just branding or a landing page.
SavedRecipe now has:
- a standalone web app structure
- its own production domain
- a meal-planning workbench
- household memory
- a kitchen copilot layer
- a "passport" discovery system for seeing what other people are cooking
- planner-to-passport publishing so meal plans can become community ideas
- the first social-import runway for recipe capture from links and creator notes
That combination is much closer to the actual product thesis:
Save the recipes you love. Plan with what you have. Cook better over time.
The Bigger Studio Shift
This split also clarified something for the rest of the business.
I want mitchreise.com to feel less like a drawer full of disconnected tools and more like a studio front door for the products we're building:
- ShowMath as the calculator platform
- ProJobCalc as the contractor workflow product
- Tenvur as its own lane
- SavedRecipe as the cooking product
That means the studio site needs to do a better job of showing the work publicly, routing people into the right product, and telling the real story of what is shipping.
This post is part of that cleanup.
Where SavedRecipe Goes Next
The next steps are pretty straightforward:
- stronger identity and profile persistence
- deeper recipe import from social/video sources
- a cleaner pantry-to-plan-to-shopping workflow
- mobile-first refinement
- eventual mobile app rollout
SavedRecipe is still early, but it no longer feels like a buried experiment.
It finally has the structure of a real product.