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WATDA Daily Special Generator
Turn a daily special into a ready-to-post card and caption in 30 seconds.
PROBLEM
A restaurant's daily special only drives foot traffic if people see it, and the bottleneck is the posting. Opening a design app, laying out a card, writing a caption, every single day, is the part that quietly doesn't happen on a busy service. WATDA's gap isn't the food or the price, it's awareness, and awareness dies in the friction of making the post.
WHAT I BUILT
A single-page tool. Type the special, the price, a one-liner, pick a tag line, drop in a photo. It outputs a ready-to-post 1080x1080 card on WATDA's real brand (the palette and fonts pulled off the site) plus three caption options in plain, warm language with hashtags. Download the card, copy a caption, post it. No design skills.
HOW IT WORKS
All client-side, no backend, works offline. The card preview is live HTML, and the downloadable PNG is drawn natively on a canvas, so there's no library and nothing to host. Captions are templated from the inputs so it's reliable and free. The dumbest thing that does the job, not an API call that can fail or cost money.
WHERE IT'S AT
Built and working as a single file. Caption logic and PNG export tested. Needs one real food photo run through it to confirm the card crops and wraps nicely on a phone, then it's ready to use daily.
WHAT I LEARNED
This is the template for a recurring product, not a one-off. Your specials, posted every day, automated, is a thing every small restaurant needs and nobody wants to do by hand. Prove it on WATDA, then it's sellable.
STACK
Vanilla JavaScript · Canvas API (PNG export) · single-file HTML · WATDA brand tokens
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