I originally built this to help my wife with meal planning and grocery shopping. We were always struggling to decide what to make and inevitably forgot ingredients. Most meal planners felt too rigid or generic, and few handled the grocery side well (or at all). We've also used meal kits like Home Chef in the past but they end up being quite expensive and produce a comical amount of packaging waste, plus you still wind up needing to purchase groceries anyway. In all honesty, I also wanted an excuse to try building something "real" using AI and to see if it could be used in an actually useful manner.
Would love feedback from anyone interested in food, meal planning, or product design!
Tech stack:
- Cloud Run
- Firestore
- Vertex AI / Gemini
yesfitz•5h ago
I'm looking for both an example of what to expect and inspiration for how I could be eating with your service.
I'd also recommend focusing on the API integrations, and/or whatever other features separate elevate this beyond asking $LLM for a weekly meal plan and shopping list taking into account dietary preferences.
tylertreat•5h ago
Also 100% on messaging to differentiate from just using an LLM to do this yourself. This one feels a bit harder to me because I think it perhaps is not obvious until you get into the product and use it for a bit, though the integrations are a pretty good concrete example.
olliepro•3h ago