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Reading the title, I was sure that feminist trolls will be on a hunt. I am not disappointed ;)

Your project could be useful to others, if you want to push it further my advice would be: find a graphic designer (it's not bad, but it's a bit too much), improve the experience (in did a meal / day is not my usual habits).

Maybe you could monetize by connecting with online grocery shops or suggesting extra items (like wine).

Thanks for sharing!

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At least now I know how to phrase it if I ever make something for my partner(s) of non specified gender and sexual orientation with whom I have an equal relationship

Go with Meal Planner for Everyone!

You can't argue with the size of the target market, at least.

I feel like there's a big difference between "for my wife" versus "for wives". The former makes no assumption about the roles of other people who use it (except, presumably, that they're interested in planning meals).

Too late to edit, but I'd like to add that "for your wife" would be as bad as "for wives", outside of a context where you are talking to a specific person and you know they have a wife who would be interested.

The one downside is that many women are very proud to be housewives. Marketing to everyone in this context despecializes, considering they make up a very considerable margin of the stay-at-home parents and mealmakers worldwide.

As much as I would hate for this to be the case, in a marketing context it makes absolute sense to go after housewives.

I think the styling definitely could use some improvement, for a broader audience, as well. It's really all my wife's artsy flare (she has an architecture degree) :) She drew it up and then I just replicated in code.

Multi-meals per day sounds like the way to go for sure. I always had that in the back of my mind

Great idea for monetizing.

Thanks!

"Maybe you could monetize by connecting with online grocery shops or suggesting extra items (like wine)."

I've always wondered why grocery loyalty programs that track what I buy don't expose to me what I buy. Then I'd have some incentive to help them keep it accurate, and it could be of much benefit to both of us.

Agreed on the excessive graphical bling - it seems nice and useful otherwise.

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