The story behind Rasoi AI
A problem I lived every day —
until I decided to build the answer.
I grew up watching my mother face the same quiet struggle every single day: "Aaj khane mein kya banaye?" — what do I cook today? It looked small. It wasn't. It was a decision she carried, alone, three times a day, for years.
Then I left home for college, and the struggle became mine. Through my bachelor's and master's, I cooked for myself to eat healthy — but every breakfast, lunch and dinner began with the same blank-mind stress: what do I make today? Most days, I simply couldn't decide. So like lakhs of others, I gave up and ordered food online — costly, and with no idea how clean it was, how it was made, or what it was doing to my health. When professional life began, nothing changed.
And slowly I realised something: this stress doesn't spare even those who know how to cook. We still order out — not because we can't cook, but because the daily deciding feels too heavy. It wasn't just my story. It was every student's, every working professional's, and every mother's.
I also saw two things no one talks about. We middle-class families cook and eat every day — but we have no idea how much nutrition we actually get, and for someone with sugar or BP at home, that blindness is dangerous. And every home throws out waste daily, most of it onto the street, mixed and reeking — simply because nobody ever taught us how to manage it. A little timely guidance, I believed, could keep our streets cleaner and our environment healthier.
A little about me: I did a B.Com and then an MBA in HR from Banaras Hindu University. I'm someone who loves to research, explore, travel, and chase down anything new I don't yet understand. When AI arrived, that same curiosity pulled me in: I started asking how websites and apps are actually built — and didn't stop until I could build them myself.
I come from a middle-class family, where dreaming of a business or trying something new often earns you more scolding than support. I always heard the same thing: "to do something, you need money." But I learnt a truth that changed everything — you may not have money to start, but you never need money to learn. So I never gave up. Whatever I didn't know, I chased until I knew it. Every failure, I used as a lesson, not a full stop.
A year and a half ago I didn't have the money to hire a team or pay to get an app built. So I made a decision: I would learn to build it myself. For 18 months, using AI and hundreds of hours of lectures, I taught myself full-stack web and app development from scratch — line by line, late night after late night. Today, Rasoi AI is live on Google Play — designed, built, and launched entirely solo.
But my vision is bigger than an app. I want to give every Indian home a completely tension-free kitchen — where you cook healthy meals from whatever you already have, know exactly what nutrition you're eating, eat right for your own health, and never stress about what's in stock or what to do with the waste. And for those who are busy, unwell, or simply can't cook, I want to go further — a trusted home-cooking and maid service, pre-prepared ingredients so no one stresses over even chopping vegetables, and a system that collects and manages every kitchen's daily waste — helping build a cleaner, plastic-free, pollution-free India.
Rasoi AI is only chapter one. One warm, honest app that solves the daily "what to cook," makes your nutrition visible, and turns kitchen waste into real impact — for the student, the professional, and every mother like mine. Not built to keep you scrolling. Built to give you calmer evenings, a healthier life, and a cleaner home for the country. If you've ever been told your dream is too big for your budget — this is proof that curiosity, not capital, is where it really begins.
