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Boilerplate

Speakeater is a cook-with-what-you-have cooking app for Android. The user photographs their fridge, pantry, or bar; the app extracts every ingredient and surfaces 23,743 recipes that match what's already there. The recipe catalog includes a vintage cocktail bar of 6,539 drinks, half of them pre-prohibition recipes (1860–1920) transcribed from period bartender's manuals. Speakeater is a solo project by Kyle Schulgen, launching publicly on Google Play on June 10, 2026, with iOS following in late summer 2026.

Fast facts

Product: Speakeater, cook-with-what-you-have cooking app
Headline: Open your fridge. We'll figure out dinner.
Launch: June 10, 2026 (Google Play); iOS late summer 2026
Platforms: Android first, iOS to follow
Categories: Food and Drink, Cooking, Pantry Tracking, Mobile Apps
Recipes: 30,282 total: 23,743 food + 6,539 drinks (5,036 cocktails, 1,361 mocktails, 142 modern non-alc)
Free tier: $0/forever. Unlimited recipe swipes, 5 fridge scans/month (top up $2 for 20 more), full pantry, basic cook mode, cocktail bar
Pro tier: $5/month or $45/year (cooking app only — Mystery Nights and Party Menus sold separately)
Pro features: 60 fridge scans a month, TikTok and YouTube link imports, Photo-to-Recipe, recipe submissions, shareable cookbooks
Mystery Nights: $9 per game (one-time) or $30 for the 5-mystery launch bundle
Party Menus: $5 per menu (one-time) or $15 for a 5-menu pack
Stack: Kotlin / Jetpack Compose · Cloudflare Workers + D1 + R2 · Anthropic Claude (vision OCR + recipe matching)
Founder: Kyle Schulgen, solo developer (six months full-time)
Headquarters: United States
Funding: Bootstrapped

The pitch in one paragraph

Most cooking apps assume you'll go to the store. Speakeater assumes you won't. The app starts from what's already in your kitchen, photographed, OCR'd, threaded onto a single ingredient list, and surfaces only the recipes that actually match. The wedge: stop searching recipes and start surveying what you already own. Layered on top is a vintage cocktail bar with 6,539 drinks, half of them transcribed from the great pre-Prohibition bartender's manuals (Jerry Thomas 1862, Harry Johnson 1882, William Boothby 1908, Hugo Ensslin 1917).

Founder quotes (citable)

"Most cooking apps want you to type. Speakeater wants you to point a camera. The kitchen has the answer; you just need to look at it the right way." , Kyle Schulgen, founder

"I built it because I was opening my fridge nightly, seeing real food, and ordering takeout anyway because nothing 'matched a recipe.' That decision-fatigue loop was the real product opportunity, not another recipe database." , Kyle Schulgen, founder

"The cocktail bar was meant to be a side feature. It grew into 6,539 drinks because the pre-Prohibition manuscripts were too good to leave out. Half of those recipes haven't been mixed in a real bar in a hundred years." , Kyle Schulgen, founder

Visual assets

Logos and icons

OG image (1200×630)

App screenshots

Recipe detail (Eggplant Adobo, 100% match) Allergen bar with substitutes Library / cookbooks Mixology · Gin Rickey Bootlegger · Scotch Hot 1908 Search · pizza

Higher-res versions and additional screenshots available on request.

Story angles

Angle	Hook
Solo dev / indie launch	One-person Android app shipping with a 28k-recipe catalog and full backend, six months of work.
Food waste reduction	Cook With What You Have cooking is structurally a food-waste play; Speakeater's "what's about to die" ranking surfaces ingredients before they spoil.
Cocktail history	The pre-Prohibition cocktail corpus inside Speakeater is the largest of any consumer app. Real recipes from Jerry Thomas, Boothby, Ensslin.
Computer vision in consumer apps	Anthropic Claude vision API used for pantry OCR, practical applied AI that isn't another chatbot.
Anti-AI-slop counterprogramming	Speakeater doesn't generate recipes. It curates and matches. A counter-pitch in the era of LLM recipe slop.
Cloudflare-stack indie launch	Workers + D1 + R2 reference architecture; entire backend runs on free tiers up to ~5K daily users.

Press contact

Founder available for interviews via email, phone, or video. Embargoed previews available before June 10, 2026.

Kyle Schulgen
[email protected]

Site: speakeater.com · Beta link: join the Android beta

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