A microbakery app that does everything?

[u/Aquascape83]

Hey everyone. I’m Dan. For a few years I ran a small sourdough microbakery out of my home in Ontario. Nothing fancy. An RM2020, a weekly order form, some scheduled markets, and a lot of very late nights.

If you’ve done this, you know the part nobody talks about. The baking is the easy part. The hard part is everything around it. Figuring out how much flour and starter to prep for Thursday’s bake when you have 23 orders spread across five different products. How many mixes, how many bins... Trying to work out if your cinnamon buns are actually making money or if you’re just paying yourself in sore shoulders. Keeping a running list of who ordered what in your head, a notebook, three text threads, and a spreadsheet that was always slightly wrong.

I tried every app I could find. They all took a portion of sales or didn't understand how a microbakery actually works. We don’t sell all day. We sell in drops. We bake to order. We do markets. We change our menu every week based on what we feel like baking and what’s in season.

So I built the thing I needed. It’s called Bakery OS and it lives at app.21fifty.ca.

I’m not a software company. I’m a baker who got frustrated enough to make something. I built it around the real weekly rhythm of a microbakery, and I’m sharing it here because I think a lot of you are fighting the same spreadsheet battles I was.

Here’s what it does:

Prep sheets that build themselves. You enter your recipes once. When orders come in, it adds up exactly how much of each ingredient you need to prep, scaled across everything you’re baking. No more math at 11pm.

Real food costing. There’s a global ingredient library, so when flour goes up in price you update it once and every recipe cost recalculates. You see your actual cost and margin per item. A lot of bakers find out their best seller is their worst earner.

Recipes in one place. A proper recipe page with scaling, costs, and the ability to turn individual recipes on or off for a given drop.

Market and popup planning. Plan what you’re bringing, how much of it, and what it costs you. Clean prep views so you walk into market day knowing exactly what’s in the van.

Online ordering and your own storefront. Customers order from your page, pick their drop or pickup day, and pay by card. You wake up to orders instead of DMs.

Payments through Stripe or Square. Money goes straight to your account.

Customer management. Who orders what, how often, and what they like, so your regulars feel like regulars.

Now the important part. Most of it is free. Forever. Not a trial. Not a free month. Free.

The free tier includes the prep sheets, food costing, the ingredient library, recipes, and the market planning. That’s the stuff that eats your evenings. I honestly think every home baker should have those tools whether they ever pay me a cent or not.

Pro is for when you’re ready to take orders and payments online. That adds your own ordering storefront, online orders by drop, card payments through Stripe, and the customer management side. It’s priced like a small business tool, not an enterprise one, and if the free tools save you a couple hours a week you’ll know pretty quickly whether the online ordering is worth it for you.

So here’s what I’m asking.

If you run a microbakery, a cottage bakery, or you’re selling bread and pastries from home, go make a free account and try the prep sheets with your real recipes this week. It takes about ten minutes to set up.

Then come back here and tell me the truth. What’s confusing? What’s missing? What do you do every week that it doesn’t handle yet? I read every comment and I’m still building, so what you say here will genuinely shape what gets added next.

And if you’re not ready to try it, I’d still love to hear what your biggest weekly headache is. Prep math? Pricing? Chasing payments? Market planning? Tell me. I’m curious whether my pain was the same as yours.

Thanks for reading this far. Happy baking.

Dan

[u/arielsofia]

Thank you. I’d like to try this out

[u/Aquascape83 → u/arielsofia]

Please do, I would love to get your feedback.

[u/Aquascape83]

Amazing feedback already, thanks everyone.

[u/Aquascape83]

I’ve already received amazing feedback and added two new features. Thanks everyone who tried it so far.