Cooksy is on the App store!

As a Product Manager for the last 6 years, my favorite part of my job was hands-down working with developers. I had zero technical knowledge when I started, but poked around and looked over the shoulders of enough developers over the years that I started to pick up all sorts of different parts of the process.

I even started committing some (very minor) code to Production.

I have always worked for startups, so I was fortunate to have the flexibility to learn and reach far beyond my role as a PM.

Coosky started as a side project — while I took time off work at 7 months pregnant — that was meant to help me further develop my practical development skills. I wishfully (and naïvely) thought it could get me into a Junior SE role without dedicated schooling.

It was a product I knew at least I would use in my daily life solving a small but annoying problem I had with following recipes I found online.

I never would have dreamed of actually getting it on the App Store, but my goal post kept moving until I decided I wanted to get it published just to say I did it.

Many hours spent with ChatGPT later, Cooksy is a fully functioning (& totally free) app on the App Store, and I'm excited to keep adding features.

Right now my favorite is the "Smart Steps" focused cooking feature that uses OpenAI to simplify and enhance every recipe's steps (eg. Smart Steps include ingredient measurements next to each ingredient right in the step.)