







A self-hosted, privacy-first kitchen companion. Manage recipes, menus, pantry ingredients, cookware, and grocery lists — all on your own hardware.
kich.io
Your Smart Kitchen Assistant Track your pantry, manage recipes, and streamline grocery shopping—all in one place. Never wonder what you can cook or what you need to buy again. https://kich.io
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Kich - Smart Kitchen Assistant
Track pantry inventory, manage recipes, and streamline grocery shopping for your household.
Kich - Smart Kitchen Assistant
Track pantry inventory, manage recipes, and streamline grocery shopping for your household.

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Someone recently announced a “restaurant listings/menus on atproto so they can own their own data”, and as someone who used to do engineering for OpenTable, let me tell you that project is not solving a problem that restaurants actually have. Owning your own data is an anti-value prop for many orgs.
dame
hard pill to swallow for atproto developers/creators: 99% of potential users either do not care about, value, understand, or want to “own their own data” i see so many apps/projects lead with this “value prop”, but it’s not an important or meaningful consideration for most people
Today we’re releasing the first version of kich.io 🎉 It’s a household app for pantry tracking, recipe management, and grocery planning. The focus is practical: less waste, less planning overhead, and knowing what you can cook at a glance.