Our Story

The story

I'm just a dad
who got really
into pizza.

Left my corporate job. Started making pizza every day. Then a million people started watching. Then Dave Portnoy showed up.

73

Days of daily pizza to earn it

8.1

What Portnoy gave it

1M+

People watching weekly

0

Fancy ovens. Just yours.

How it started

I quit my job.
Started making
pizza.

I walked away from a career that wasn't working for me. Became a full-time dad. And somewhere between nap times and school pickups, I discovered pizza.

Not eating it. Making it. I got obsessed with turning a regular home oven into something that could produce a genuinely great pie. No culinary school. No $2,000 pizza oven.

The obsession

I tested every
variable. Every one.

Flour. Hydration. Fermentation time. Launch angle. Every pie was a data point. I documented everything publicly — no paywalls, no gatekeeping.

People started watching. Then more. Then a lot. Over a million of them. And they kept saying: "Wait, you made that in a regular oven?"

8.1

Portnoy score

"You could 100% get this at a pizzeria. You'd have no idea it came from a home oven."

Dave Portnoy · Barstool Sports · One Bite Pizza Reviews

Day 73. Sam made a pizza. Dave Portnoy ate it. Gave it an 8.1 and said what a million home cooks needed to hear — that this was actually possible. Not a trick. Not luck. Just the right technique, in a regular oven.

Why Dough Guy exists

Pizza for everyone.
Not just people
with fancy ovens.

01

Make it accessible

No pizza oven. No culinary degree. Your oven, our steel, Sam's recipe. That's the whole thing.

02

Teach everything, free

Every technique, every recipe, every mistake — documented publicly. The calculator, the guides, the videos. All free. Always.

03

Build something real

Dough Guy wasn't built by a brand team. It was built by making pizza every single day until it was actually good.

Ready to make great pizza?