Morsel just dropped on Product Hunt as the 'Strava for cooking'. A side project born during the holidays that's tackling the ultimate 'what's for dinner' bug.
Alright, fellow keyboard warriors, put down that instant ramen for a second. We all know developers survive on caffeine and takeout, but someone actually went and built an app to fix our terrible dietary habits. Enter Morsel, casually flexing on Product Hunt as the "Strava for cooking".
So, during the last holiday season, two devs (Jack and his buddy) were hanging with their families, probably doing kitchen duty. One of them was using Letterboxd to find a movie and thought, "Why isn't there an app to see what recipes my homies are cooking?"
Instead of just tweeting about it and forgetting it like the rest of us, they actually built it. The core idea is simple: a social feed showing what your friends are making, plus a discovery layer acting like a massive, shared cookbook. No Instagram influencer BS, just real food.
With over 200 upvotes, the tech crowd was surprisingly into it. Here is the breakdown of the comment section combat:
This is textbook indie hacking. Find a personal pain point (not knowing what to cook/eat), build a straightforward MVP, and ship it. You don't always need complex AI pipelines to make something cool.
If you have a side project gathering dust, stop over-engineering. Grab a cheap cloud vps, deploy that spaghetti code, and see if it sticks to the wall. It might even help you fund new ideas down the road.
Source: Product Hunt - Morsel
