About
What’s For Dinner Tonight is built by Don Bonaddio, a one-person developer working out of his kitchen — which, conveniently, is where most of the testing happens.
WFD started in 2025 as a list of weeknight meals stored in a Notes file shared with my wife. The Notes file kept growing, kept getting harder to search, kept losing whatever cooking instructions we’d written down the last time. Every Sunday turned into “what should we make this week?” followed by 20 minutes of scrolling and one of us getting frustrated.
So I started writing an iPhone app. By the time I’d built the meal library, the family Queue, the household sync, the voice assistant, the shopping list, and the cooking instruction generator, I realized this had become its own thing.
WFD is for households who eat dinner together and want to spend less mental energy on the “what” so they have more attention for the “who.” It’s family software in the literal sense — built around real households, not single users.
Built with my family
The testers are my wife, our kids, my parents, and a small circle of friends. Every feature has to survive a weeknight where someone’s tired and someone else is hungry. The features that don’t survive get cut.
What I don’t do
I don’t sell ads. I don’t sell your data. I don’t have a venture capital roadmap that forces me to add a social feed. WFD’s revenue is the small Plus subscription and that’s deliberately enough.
If you have a question, a bug, or just want to suggest a meal type, email me at don@whatsfordinnertonight.org. I read every message.