My app is live. A line cook made this.
I work 50 hours a week on the line. I wake up at 5am to code before my shift. I code on my phone during breaks. I watch tutorials while prepping mise en place.
Everybody at the restaurant thinks I'm crazy. My manager said "people like us don't do that." My mom said to focus on getting a better kitchen job.
But I saw Sarah's post about shipping her first app. She was a teacher. If a teacher can do it, a cook can do it.
Today I deployed MealPlanPro. It's a meal planning app for restaurant workers who eat like garbage because they're too tired to cook after a shift. It has 23 users already, all from my restaurant.
The look on my manager's face when I showed him was worth every 5am alarm.
The barrier that was broken
Build and deploy a full-stack app
Deploy a working app with a database, auth, and real users
Learning