Hackathon Project
10th Place
Recipe Recommender
AI-powered app that generates personalized recipes from ingredients, dietary restrictions, or meal photos using Gemini 1.5 Pro.
React
Express.js
Clarifai
Cloudinary
Node.js
Socket.IO
AI
Cooking
Image Recognition
Duration: 1 month
Completed: 9/19/2024
Team Size: 1
Team Members:
Taiwo Ayomide
Project Overview
An AI-driven recipe assistant that generates and explains cooking recipes from ingredients, dietary preferences, or meal photos using Gemini 1.5 Pro.
Key Features
- Personalized meal generation using ingredients and dietary restrictions
- Image-based recipe recognition powered by AI
- Interactive AI chat for cooking questions and tips
- Downloadable ingredient list in text format
- Real-time response updates with Socket.IO
- Responsive UI for desktop and mobile users
- Multer-based secure image upload handling
Challenges & Solutions
- Handling AI prompt engineering for diverse recipe contexts
- Efficiently parsing meal photo metadata into structured cooking instructions
- Ensuring robust file handling and cleanup after downloads
- Streaming progress updates in real-time using Socket.IO
- Designing a clean, intuitive UI for a diverse user base