SOMA

Nutrition app that brings recipes, shopping and nutritional values together for a household.

Type: Venture with Dr. med. Hani Al-Mohamed
Our role: Co-founding, Product, Development, Operations
Period: since July 2026
Status: Testing by invitation, a company of its own in preparation
View: soma.recipes (external link)

Screenshot of SOMA — SOMA app, in testing

The task

Anyone trying to eat consciously juggles recipe apps, shopping lists and nutrition tables. Dr. med. Hani Al-Mohamed of the Berlin longevity clinic YEARS wanted an app that brings all of this together. We founded and built it together.

What we built

An app with a daily view, weekly plan, shopping list and pantry.
A food database of our own with around 49,000 recipes and more than 2.2 million branded products, linked to nutritional values.
An area for doctors, coaches and producers.
Weather and location services on our own servers, so that locations do not end up with anyone else.

What it achieved

SOMA is in testing with its first households, with access by invitation. A company of its own is in preparation.

Tech

Apps: Angular (three apps, own design system), PWA, d3, MapLibre
Website: Astro, GSAP
Backend: Python, FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, Alembic, Pydantic
Database & cache: PostgreSQL with pgvector, Valkey
Data pipeline: own crawlers, trafilatura, full-text and vector search
Geo services (self-hosted): Nominatim, Valhalla, Open-Meteo
Login: Keycloak
AI: Ollama, local (still switched off during testing)
Email: SMTP
Infrastructure: Docker, Docker Compose, Caddy, Hetzner
Security: Content Security Policy, Rate limiting, encrypted backups (restic, age)
CI/CD: GitLab CI with rollback
Tests: pytest, Vitest, Playwright, ruff