This one's personal project. I'm a hobby chef, but my wife is a pastry chef, and every kitchen timer app she tried was either too simple or too ugly.

Cooking - especially baking - is sequential. You're not managing one timer; you're moving through a series of steps, each with its own countdown. She needed something that could handle that gracefully. I've been vibe-coding for quite some time, but this was a good opportunity to actually build something native and launching on the App Store.

Platform: iOS (native SwiftUI) Tools: Figma, Claude Code, Xcode Status: Available on the App Store 👉 Rung - Chef's Kitchen Timer

Most timer apps are built around a single-timer mental model. Fine for boiling pasta. Useless for anything more complex — a custard resting while your caramel is reducing while your oven is preheating.

My wife was labelling multiple alarms in the default clock app. Every cook I've seen do this has the same workaround. There was a real gap.

I went to the Braun archive for reference — the T3 pocket radio, the KT kitchen timer. Objects with a rightness to them. That became the aesthetic direction: a rotary dial as the core interaction, signal orange as the only accent, everything else quiet.

I'm a designer, not a developer. I used Claude Code as my implementation partner — design the component in Figma, write a tight prompt, run it, evaluate, iterate. Closer to art direction than writing code.

What I learned: AI tooling amplifies your taste — or your lack of it. The Figma work still had to be right first.

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