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Building MealPrep AI 📸 Snap your fridge, get a week of dinners priced at your store. Live on iOS + Android. Solo founder, building in public.

Huntington Beach, CA
Joined August 2016
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I shipped my first app this week. MealPrep AI: snap a photo of your fridge, get a week of dinners priced at your actual grocery store. Live on iOS + Android. Day 1 numbers: 0 paying users.
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Hey, I'm Kahlil 👋🏾 Full-time single dad to a teenager. Spent most of my life running service businesses, trading time for money. Always wanted a digital product of some sort. Something that can scale. AI has opened that door for me - so here I am... What are you building? Drop it below, I'll check it out (;
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Two foldables in one week. Last week: MealPrep AI on the new iPhone Duo. This week: Galaxy Z Fold. Open it and cook mode goes side by side: the step on one half, what it uses on the other. Stand it half open on the counter and the step faces you.
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Two Android lessons from the Fold: 1. Target Android 16 and your portrait lock is ignored on screens 600dp+ wide. 2. A density change restarts the Activity. In React Native that's a full reload: our onboarding jumped back to page 1. Adding density to configChanges fixed it.
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And the iPhone Duo: 1. Older SDKs letterbox your app on the big screen. The 27.1 SDK goes edge to edge. 2. Folded shut, iOS moves the tab bar to a side rail, but only a native one. Ours was JS, so we switched. Building for foldables too and/or have suggestions? Hit me up (;
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Side project for my own love of training: GymTag. Think HORSE, but for workouts. Tag a friend with a workout, they match it on video or take a letter. It syncs heart rate from your watch, so there's no lying about what you did. Think @marclou's TrustMRR, but for training (;
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MealPrep AI is still my main focus. I just really like this one. Beta's open on iPhone + Android if you want to tag me 👇🏾 playgymtag.fit If you're building something cool and/or have feedback, hit me up!
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Question for the builder crowd 👇🏾 Have any of you run UGC campaigns to push traffic to your apps? Thinking of giving it a try. Would love to hear your stories: pitfalls, lessons learned, what's working and what's not. These days it's all about the traffic... hit me up (;
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Beautiful day in Huntington Beach. Was feeling a bit stagnant, so I went out to raise my frequency. Quick run to the end of the pier. How do you reset when you feel stuck?
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Now I need to get it in front of people. These days distribution is the hard part, not the code. If you're building something cool and/or have suggestions, I always welcome feedback! Hit me up and follow along (;
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Day 1 update, with the real numbers 👇🏾
Day 1 after launch: ~10 downloads, mostly friends and family 0 paying customers Hard paywall: 3-day free trial, then $39.99/yr or $9.99/mo Why not freemium? Every scan costs me AI money. Free users would eat up the profit. The good, the bad, the ugly. I'll keep you updated (;
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Day 1 after launch: ~10 downloads, mostly friends and family 0 paying customers Hard paywall: 3-day free trial, then $39.99/yr or $9.99/mo Why not freemium? Every scan costs me AI money. Free users would eat up the profit. The good, the bad, the ugly. I'll keep you updated (;
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