Case Study: Project Foodie achieves a scalable, interactive cooking app featuring dynamic timers and subscriptions with ClearSummit

Project Foodie - Customer Case Study

Project Foodie hired ClearSummit to evolve an MVP into a polished iOS product: an entertaining, real‑time guided cooking app with separate iPhone and iPad interfaces. The core challenges were implementing precise ingredient scaling using customary cooking units, synchronizing step‑by‑step instructions with on‑screen events and video, creating persistent dynamic timers, and supporting tiered access and in‑app purchase/subscription flows plus commerce and social integrations.

ClearSummit built the iOS app and a Django-based backend to power live updates to instructions, automatic ingredient scaling, persistent timers, account tiers, Instacart and Amazon buy links, and social sharing. The app launched to a limited audience in November 2016 and, after incorporating user data and feedback, relaunched in October 2017 with 20 meals at launch (including a 10‑serving Thanksgiving Feast); ongoing weekly content additions and the new commerce/sharing features enabled full subscription and engagement pathways for Project Foodie.

Project Foodie