My mom has a handwritten list on the fridge. Everything that’s in the freezer, written in pencil, half illegible. It works. Sort of.
I had a different problem. Things going quietly bad at the back of the fridge. No list helps with that. You don’t even know they’re there until one day you find them and wonder how long they’ve been sitting there.
That was the starting point for FreshKeeper. Not a market analysis. Not a pitch deck. A messy fridge and a mom who wanted to keep track of her freezer.
The honest version of “building with AI”
FreshKeeper 2.0 is now in App Store Review. I built it. But I didn’t build it alone.
Claude and ChatGPT were part of this build from day one, not as tools that spit out code I copy-pasted, but as genuine collaborators. We discussed architecture, worked through bugs together, argued about UX decisions, and wrote copy side by side. When I got stuck, we got unstuck together.
I want to be clear about that, because there’s a version of this story where someone says “I built an app” and buries the AI part in a footnote. That’s not this.
At the same time: the decisions were mine. The product direction was mine. The mistakes were mine. AI made me faster and better, it didn’t make the app for me.
What we actually built
FreshKeeper tracks what you have at home. You log your groceries, the app keeps track of expiry dates, and it reminds you before things go bad. The home screen shows what needs to be used soon. The shopping list connects to your inventory and suggests what you’re running low on.
It runs on a freemium model. Core features are free. An unlimited shopping list is 39 SEK/month.
Version 2.0 adds the shopping list, the most requested feature since beta. Categorized, connected to your inventory, and designed to close the loop between what you have, what you need, and what you buy.
What this looks like at scale
Here’s the thing: FreshKeeper is a consumer app, but the way it was built is a service.
If a startup came to Aerodynamic Dreams and said “we need an iOS app, a freemium model, App Store presence, and a content strategy”, this is exactly what we’d deliver. The difference is that this time the client and the agency were the same person.
AI-assisted development isn’t a shortcut. It’s a different way of working, faster iteration, tighter feedback loops, and the ability for a solo operator to move at a pace that used to require a team.
That’s what we do at Aerodynamic Dreams. And FreshKeeper is the proof of concept.
What’s next
The app is in review. Banking is being processed. A 2.1 update is already planned.
And the messy fridge that started all of this? Still messy. But at least now there’s an app for it.
