Panos Tsamoudakis

@tsamoudakis
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Product Designer focused on creating captivating digital experiences at Doist.com
Experimenting with food photography & video at fooodlove.com
Bloghttps://www.tsamoudakis.com
Side Projecthttps://www.fooodlove.com

I wrote about the whole journey (from ChatGPT prompts to building the app) on my blog.

If you're into side projects or the "build your own tool" mindset, you might enjoy the read.

https://www.tsamoudakis.com/brefast-a-meal-planning-app-born-from-my-own-macro-tracking-frustrations/

Brefast: A meal planning app born from my own macro-tracking frustrations

Meet Brefast, a meal planning app that helps you organize your weekly meals and track nutrition using the foods you already buy, without telling you what to eat.

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Brefast is free during early access. I'm actively building it and would love feedback from real users.

If you already know what you want to eat and just need a better way to organize it, give it a try.

👉 www.brefast.com

The workflow is simple:

1️⃣ Add products you actually buy
2️⃣ Combine them into meals
3️⃣ Drag meals into your week

Brefast calculates your daily macros automatically based on the targets you set.

The real tipping point? When my wife started following her own macro goals.

Same kitchen. Same grocery runs. Different needs. 🛒

Brefast lets us each plan independently while sharing our weekly plans, so we know what the other person needs. No more fridge surprises.

Here's what Brefast doesn't do:

❌ Tell you what to eat
❌ Track what you already ate
❌ Offer recipes or diet plans
❌ Judge your choices

It's not a diet app. It's an organizational tool for people who've already figured out their nutrition.

That's why I built Brefast. 👨‍💻

You add your products once. You build your meals from those products. Then you drag them into a weekly plan and see your macros at a glance.

No more starting from scratch. ✨

The issue wasn't ChatGPT. It was the lack of memory. 😶‍🌫️

I buy the same products every week. I eat variations of the same meals. My macro targets don't change that often.

Why was I re-explaining all of this every few days? 🤔

For months, I used ChatGPT to plan my meals. Describe my products, set my macro goals, and get a weekly plan. It worked surprisingly well.

Until I realized I was redoing the same thing every few days. From scratch. Every time.

So I built an app to fix it. 🧵

The full story is coming to my blog tomorrow. What it is, why I built it, and how you can try it. If that blurry, vague photo piqued your interest, subscribe to the newsletter, and you'll get it straight in your inbox. It's already scheduled. 📨

https://www.tsamoudakis.com/#/portal/signup

Tsamoudakis

Multidisciplinary designer focused on creating and maintaining functional web and mobile products, and exceptional digital experiences.

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The hardest part wasn't building it. It was resisting the urge to keep adding features before letting anyone else see it. 😅