Marvin
A private household cooking, cookbook, and meal-planning companion — keeping recipes, meal plans, and kitchen health notes in one place instead of scattered across bookmarks and screenshots.
Key Features & Outcomes
- Household cookbook, meal planner, and health companion in one app
- Health-check probes (/api/health/live, /api/health/ready) built in from the start rather than bolted on later
The idea
Recipes end up everywhere — a screenshot here, a bookmark there, a half-remembered version of something that worked once. Marvin is the household's single kitchen: recipes, meal plans, and a running sense of what's actually being cooked and eaten.
What's inside
Cookbook and meal-planning views sit alongside a lighter "health companion" layer for tracking how meals fit the household's wider goals — built on Next.js and Postgres, with production-readiness taken seriously from the start: dedicated liveness/readiness health endpoints and a documented operations runbook, not just a weekend script.
Why it matters to me
The smallest and most domestic of the household tools, and a good test of restraint — the temptation with a cooking app is to build a recipe-import engine, a nutrition API integration, a shopping-list optimiser. Marvin stays deliberately close to what the household actually uses day to day.