RecipElf
Transforming Your Grocery List and Expiration Dates into Delicious Recipes. Unleash Your Creativity, Embrace Sustainability!
Created on 9th July 2023
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RecipElf
Transforming Your Grocery List and Expiration Dates into Delicious Recipes. Unleash Your Creativity, Embrace Sustainability!
The problem RecipElf solves
- Effortless Meal Planning: RecipElf simplifies the process of meal planning by generating recipes based on your available ingredients and their expiration dates. No more tedious brainstorming or searching for recipes that match your ingredients.
- Reduce Food Waste: By suggesting recipes that prioritize ingredients nearing their expiration dates, RecipElf ensures that you utilize them before they go bad.
- Explore New Culinary Horizons: It inspires you to experiment with different flavors and techniques, introducing you to new and exciting dishes you might not have considered before.
- Budget-Friendly Cooking: RecipElf helps you make the most of your grocery budget by utilizing ingredients you already have.
- Safe and Reliable Recommendations: Rest assured that the recipes generated by RecipElf are reliable and safe to follow.
- Personalized and Tailored Experience: RecipElf provides personalized recipe suggestions that match your preferences and dietary requirements.
Future Functionalities:
- Incorporate E-commerce Ordering for Out-of-Stock Ingredients: Seamlessly integrate with e-commerce platforms to automatically identify and order any missing ingredients. Save time by eliminating the need to manually type in ingredients, and ensure you have everything you need for the recipes.
- Generate Pictures of Each Recipe using DALL-E: Enhance the recipe browsing experience with visually appealing images of each dish. Utilize cutting-edge AI models like DALL-E to generate unique and realistic food images that accompany the recipe suggestions.
- Calculate Nutritional Information: Gain insights into the nutritional content of the recipes generated by RecipElf. Get detailed information on calories, macronutrients, vitamins.
- Support Recipe Generation Based on Cooking Time: Specify the desired cooking time, and RecipElf will generate recipes that match your schedule, quick weekday meals or leisurely weekend adventure.
Challenges we ran into
Technical Challenges:
- Designing the GPT prompt correctly
- Managing global state in React
- Handling runtime secrets
- Calling the OpenAPI Image API
- Calling Python logic from the Express server
- Handling authentication and authorization
Non-technical Challenges:
- Got kicked out of the building at 9:30 last night
- Mingjun, our backend developer, had back pain, which made it hard to come in person
- Lack of familiarity with the same technologies among team members
- Dealing with loud noises during the recording of our video
- Balancing the scope of development as one frontend developer wanted to build too many things
Tracks Applied (3)
Community Partner
Sponsor Award (Hat-rick Capital)
Future AI Finalist
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