STOUP started with two everyday frustrations: never knowing what to cook, and throwing out food that went bad before I used it. The grocery inventory apps I tried didn’t help much, so I started building my own.

It starts with pantry tracking, but the goal is to help people make something good with what’s already in the kitchen, and waste less food doing it. The loop it’s built around: pantry → inspiration → creation → sharing.

Where it is now

Early development. Working so far:

Barcode scanning, with product lookup from Open Food Facts
Manual entry for anything without a barcode
Quantities, units and expiration dates
User accounts and authenticated workflows
A containerized FastAPI back end on PostgreSQL, with Alembic migrations, health checks, and Caddy as a reverse proxy handling TLS

I built it as a complete application rather than a script: separate API, repository, schema, auth and database layers, with production and development environments kept apart.

Where it’s going

“What can I make?” suggestions from what’s on hand, including use-it-up ideas for things about to expire
Substitutions for incomplete ingredient lists
Optional meal planning and grocery lists
Sharing what you made, celebrating improvisation over recipe perfection

Stack

App: Flutter / Dart
API: Python, FastAPI, Alembic
Data: PostgreSQL
Deploy: Docker, Caddy