Projects & Work in Progress

What it is

A web app for solo owners and small teams who are tired of spreadsheets. It tracks recipes, inventory, menu pricing, sales, and expenses so it's easier to see where the money is actually going.

The goal is to make "real" restaurant back office tools available to people who are just getting started – food trucks, cottage bakers, ghost kitchens, and small shops.

Current status

• Core data model in place (recipes, inventory, sales, costs).
• Basic dashboards and reports working with real data.
• Auth, multi-tenant setup, and demo mode wired up.

Next steps

• Polish onboarding flow and demo experience.
• Add more "explain like a human" tooltips & helpers.
• Start a small private beta with a few real kitchens.

What I'm testing

• Simple daily journals and planners.
• Bible-quote notebooks and prayer journals.
• Different interior layouts and cover styles.

The main goal here is less about "the perfect book" and more about learning what types of products actually move and how to design interiors that feel nice to use.

Where it's going

• Iterating on a few designs that sell consistently.
• Cleaning up older interiors and retiring weak ideas.
• Possibly connecting KDP data into Kiori-style analytics later.

Examples

• Amazon → Google Sheets → Pinterest flow for affiliate posts.
• Image pipelines for resizing / optimizing food and anime art.
• Personal finance "mini-dashboard" ideas using bank exports and scripts.

Why it matters

Most of these aren't standalone products – they're support systems. The goal is to take repetitive admin work (uploading, tagging, logging) and hand it off to automations so I can spend more time on design, code, and cooking.