Appetite

Inspiration

Appetite was inspired by the everyday challenge of reducing food waste and making meal planning easier. We wanted to create a smart, AI-powered tool that helps users manage their pantry, discover recipes based on what they have, and streamline grocery shopping—all in one place.

What it does

Appetite is an all-in-one smart recipe and pantry management app. Users can:

• Track pantry inventory and expiration dates
• Get recipe suggestions based on available ingredients
• Add missing ingredients from recipes directly to shopping lists
• Plan meals and shopping trips efficiently
• Receive alerts for low stock and expiring items
• Use natural language input to quickly add pantry items

How we built it

We built Appetite using:

• React for the frontend UI
• Supabase for authentication, real-time database, and edge functions
• Tailwind CSS for modern, responsive styling
• AI/ML features for recipe suggestions and ingredient parsing
• Modular components and context-based state management for scalability and maintainability

Challenges we ran into

• Designing a seamless user experience for managing pantry, recipes, and shopping lists together
• Implementing real-time updates and notifications with Supabase
• Handling natural language input and ingredient parsing accurately
• Ensuring the app remains intuitive and fast as features grew

Accomplishments that we're proud of

• Built a fully functional, user-friendly app that genuinely helps reduce food waste
• Integrated AI features for smart recipe suggestions and ingredient parsing
• Achieved smooth real-time updates and cross-device sync
• Created a modular, maintainable codebase ready for future growth

What we learned

• How to leverage Supabase for real-time, scalable apps
• Best practices for building modern React apps with context and hooks
• The importance of user feedback in refining features and UX
• How to integrate AI/ML features into a practical, everyday tool

What's next for Appetite

• Mobile app version for even easier access
• More advanced AI-powered meal planning and nutrition analysis
• Community features for sharing recipes and shopping lists
• Integration with grocery delivery services
• Enhanced analytics to help users save money and reduce waste

Built With

• anthropic
• biome
• browser-localstorage
• eslint
• git
• javascript
• lodash
• lucide-react
• netlify
• openai
• perplexity
• postgresql
• react
• react-hook-form
• react-window
• sonner
• supabase
• supabase-edge-functions
• tailwind-css
• typescript
• vite
• vitest
• zod