👩‍🍳 Chefito – Voice-Guided Cooking for Real Life

Even if my project isn’t finished, I’m submitting it — because it’s real, it’s mine, and it’s just the beginning.

🌱 My first real project — and it was ambitious

Chefito is the very first tech project I’ve ever built.

I didn’t come from a developer background. I learned everything by myself — code, AI, UX, backend, voice integration — with one goal in mind:
Build something better than Marmiton. Something that’s helpful, modern, ethical, and made for real people.

I wanted to create a cooking assistant that talks to you, adapts recipes to your needs, and makes cooking fun instead of stressful.

🧱 What I tried to build

A full-stack app (SvelteKit + Supabase + Rust + Cloudflare R2)
An interactive cooking mode with voice navigation
Smart recipes in JSON with AI-powered variants
A clean, mobile-first interface made for busy people

I had the vision. I had the structure. I even had 500+ audio files ready.

But…

🧨 What didn’t go as planned

I ran out of time.
Some parts are there, some are still broken, some are just concepts.

The AI is not fully integrated yet
Some recipes are missing or incomplete
The voice features work in local tests, but not online
The backend is working, but not as clean as I want

Still, I pushed through. I didn’t give up. I learned a lot.

🫶 Why I submitted anyway

Because this hackathon is about progress, not perfection.

Because I built more in 3 weeks than I thought possible.
Because I want to show what a self-taught dev can do when she dares to dream big.

And maybe next time, I’ll ship it all. For real.

🧠 What it does

Chefito is a voice-guided, beginner-friendly cooking assistant that transforms any recipe into an interactive, stress-free experience — even when your fridge is empty and your brain is fried. No more Googling 45 different recipes, no more spammy websites full of pop-ups.

Chefito offers a smooth, smart, and kind experience, where each recipe feels like having a real chef guiding you step by step — adapted to your time, tools, and tastes.

🔧 How we built it

I started from scratch, alone, with a big goal: do better than Marmiton — no ads, no fluff, just clean design and quality information.

Frontend: SvelteKit (mobile-first, fast, PWA-ready)
Backend: Rust + Supabase + Cloudflare R2 (scalable, secure, fast)
AI Layer: Local NLP + ElevenLabs for voice + JSON enrichment

Each recipe is structured as a mini-app, with timers, variants, voice steps, and more.

🚧 Challenges we ran into

Structuring recipes in a multilingual, SEO-ready JSON-LD format
Making the AI helpful even offline and with poor input
Juggling between cooking vision, dev constraints, and business logic

🏆 Accomplishments that we're proud of

Built a real MVP from nothing — with recipes, voice guidance, and AI suggestions
Created a modular architecture ready for scaling (kids mode, pro chefs, cultural twists)
Designed a system that’s not just code — it’s a whole experience