Марія Бровінська Startup 15 April 2026, 11:15

"I'm tired of thinking about what to cook." Ukrainian designer created an app that generates a menu and shopping list based on your preferences

Product Designer Dmytro Kobets created a meal planning app after experimenting with Codex and Claude.

The idea arose from a household problem — the daily question «what to cook today» was simply boring. As a result, the Lopu Plus application appeared, which works as a personal «sous-chef». It automatically generates a menu taking into account the user’s parameters: preferences, restrictions, family composition and even the time available for cooking. According to Dmytro, he spent «no more than 300 hours on the development.

The user simply selects a meal — breakfast, lunch, or dinner — and within seconds receives a list of meal options. You can also specify ingredients that you already have at home, and the app will select recipes based on the available products.

Separately, the developer added the ability to save recipes from social networks. If you add such a recipe to the plan, the system automatically generates a shopping list.

Additional features include reminders with dinner ideas, saving favorite recipes, and basic personalization for your family, including allergies or children’s preferences.

In fact, the application combines several scenarios at once: menu planning, recipe management, and shopping preparation.

The author himself calls the project «fresh» for him — it’s a pet project that grew out of testing the capabilities of modern AI tools in product development.

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