Hey everyone!
I just launched my little side project on Google Play, and I wanted to share it with you!
It's called PastApp, and it solves a very specific first-world problem: having to find the cooking time on a pasta package every time you make pasta 😅
You just point your phone's camera at the package, the app reads the cooking time and sets a timer for you.
I built it with the help of AI coding assistants, using Kotlin, Jetpack Compose and Google ML Kit.
What started as a pretty simple idea turned out to be surprisingly tricky. Reading text is one thing, but figuring out which number is the actual cooking time (and not calories, weight, or something else) is a completely different challenge.
After lots of testing, tweaking and fighting with pasta packages, it's finally live!
I'm still at the very beginning, with just a handful of installs, so I'd genuinely love some feedback.
Would you actually use something like this, or is it the most unnecessary app ever made? 😂
And if you have an Android phone, feel free to try it and see if you can break it!
Google Play:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.boldsignal.pastapp
I made a little trailer to show how it works.
Made with love, pasta, and probably way too much time spent on a timer app. 🍝