u/YoNoSoySantiago

Being honest up front: I'm a software developer without celiac, researching an app idea rather than living the problem. What I keep reading is that households combining celiac with other allergies (nuts, dairy, eggs) end up rotating the same few safe meals forever because no planning app handles combined restrictions well.

For those living it: what's actually the hardest part — finding recipes, verifying ingredients, the grocery list, or feeding picky kids within the restrictions? And is there an app you've tried that came close? I'd rather learn from your experience than build the same disappointment everyone else built.

I don't live with food allergies, and I won't pretend to know what that's like. I'm a solo software developer, and in researching problems that existing apps handle badly, one pattern kept appearing: meal-planning apps cope with ONE restriction fine and fall apart when a household combines several — one kid nut+egg allergic, another celiac, and suddenly it's spreadsheets and the same 8 rotating meals.

Before building anything I'd rather hear it from the people who actually deal with this:

1. How do you plan the week today, and how long does it take?

2. Has any existing app genuinely helped, or do they all "not get it"?

3. Would you trust an app that filters recipes across everyone's restrictions at once — if it always insisted you verify labels yourself and never guessed on safety?

If the answer is "this wouldn't help, here's why," that's exactly the feedback I need. (With mod permission I can share the concept page; there's a waitlist, but the input matters more.)