The Startup Different Podcast · 2026-04-28 · 27 min
Chris has a confession to make. While co-hosting a podcast about building startups, he's been quietly building one of his own - and today he's pulling back the curtain. PurePrep is a premium meal planning and recipe management app built for families who are tired of the nightly "what's for dinner?" debate. At its core, the app uses AI-powered recipe ingestion to extract structured recipe data from any URL on the web - no more copy-pasting ingredients from food blogs - then lets families plan meals on a shared calendar, manage dietary preferences for every family member, and automatically generate a consolidated, intelligently grouped shopping list for the week. In this episode, Chris walks Dave and the listeners through the full story: the family frustration that sparked the idea, the technical decisions behind building a native app, and what it's like to be a solo technical founder using the same AI coding tools they've been debating on the show for months.
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