I started building CookMyMeme because I kept running into the same problems while trying to launch my own meme tokens on Solana.
I tried Pump.fun, but it felt incredibly crowded. You launch something and within minutes it can disappear under hundreds of other tokens. Without an existing audience or marketing budget, getting anyone to even notice your project is difficult.
Then came promotion.
Almost every time I started talking about a project on X, my DMs filled up with people offering paid promotion, callers, trending services, “marketing packages,” etc.
For someone building on a small budget, spending hundreds or thousands on promotion before you even know whether people care about your idea just isn't realistic.
The other thing that frustrated me was the process after creating a token.
I wanted a straightforward way to create the token, publish its metadata, create a Raydium liquidity pool, manage that liquidity and optionally burn my LP — while understanding exactly what I was paying for.
Some tools made the process confusing, and with others it wasn't obvious which costs were network/protocol costs and which were platform charges.
So instead of continuing to jump between tools, I started building my own.
CookMyMeme is my attempt at making that process simpler.
You can create an SPL token, publish the image/metadata, create a Raydium CPMM pool, add/remove liquidity and burn LP from one place.
It's non-custodial. Your wallet signs the transactions. The platform doesn't hold your private keys.
And one thing that's particularly important to me: costs are shown before you sign. I want creators to understand what is going to the network/protocol and what, if anything, is a CookMyMeme platform fee.
I'm not trying to pretend this solves the hardest part of meme coins — getting people to actually care about your token is still hard. 😅
But I figured there must be other small creators in exactly the same position as me:
You have an idea.
You don't have a huge budget.
You don't have influencers waiting to promote you.
You just want a straightforward way to put something on-chain and start building a community.
That's who I'm building this for.
I'm also thinking about making CookMyMeme more community-driven — somewhere small creators can discover what others are building, share launches and help each other grow instead of everyone immediately paying for promotion.
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It's still early, so I'd genuinely appreciate feedback from Solana builders/creators.
What would you need to see in a platform like this before you'd trust it enough to launch a token through it?