DesiTadka

Inspiration

Because I kept on saving and forgetting. Suddenly one day I would remember that I could try out something new I had seen on Insta, but I was never able to find it. Most of the time I had to spend time watching the reel and noting stuff down if it was not in the caption.

What it does

This is your fitness manager for the Indian lifestyle. Do you keep on saving multiple reels on Insta, thinking "I will make it, do this exercise, try this out"? Now you can, with DesiTadka. Paste the reel and we will extract the recipe or the workout for you. Change the recipe to vegetarian Indian options, as there are a lot of inaccessible Western options out there. Log your daily calories. Click a photo and see the calorific value. Add the workouts from Insta into your routine. Log it. Work out alongside the app: it will tell you where you are going wrong and give you a timer to exercise. This is personally helpful for me. I am the first user.

How we built it

I built it using Claude Code, and the Codex terminal for using ChatGPT to read reels, as that is better. Next.js, React, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, OpenAI API, Codex CLI, MediaPipe, yt-dlp, ffmpeg, Zod, Docker, Caddy, Oracle Cloud

Challenges we ran into

The hardest part was coming up with the idea and thinking about what extra I could do. I knew it would be something with fitness that is useful for me.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

What we learned

The more instructions you give, the better. The more iterations, the better.

What's next for DesiTadka

Built With

• caddy
• codex-cli
• docker
• ffmpeg
• mediapipe
• next.js
• openai-api
• oracle
• react
• tailwind-css
• typescript
• yt-dlp
• zod