Sear
Everything you cook, in one place
In TestFlight, preparing for App Store
Recipes scatter — food blogs, screenshots, cookbook pages, texts from family. Sear gives them one home. Point it at a photo, a screenshot, or a URL and it produces a clean, structured recipe you can organize into collections, plan a week around, shop from, and cook from at the stove.
I designed and built the whole product: the native SwiftUI app, the web backend, accounts and sign-in, push notifications, sharing with friends, and the moderation and account-deletion plumbing Apple requires before it lets a social app ship.
- URL imports parse a site's structured recipe data first and only fall back to AI when they have to — cheaper, faster, and more reliable than sending everything to a model
- Every model call is measured for cost and quality, so the choice of which model handles extraction is backed by data rather than a default
- Sign in with Apple and Google, a friends-and-sharing layer, and the trust-and-safety work most side projects skip
- Swift
- SwiftUI
- Next.js
- TypeScript
- Prisma
- PostgreSQL
- Claude API
- Vercel
