FeedMe

Inspiration

As busy college students, we wanted to help our peers to make the most out of their groceries while fostering community through food. Cooking is often seen as a chore and college is the first time that many have to cook for themselves, so we wanted to build an app that connects you with friends, helps you make the most out of your groceries, and save time and money.

What it does

FeedMe lets users scan the groceries they have, suggest recipes based on those ingredients, and includes a social feed to share meals with friends. There is also a collaboration feature that combines ingredients from multiple users to suggest recipes you can cook together.

How we built it

We used React Native for the frontend, Supabase for the inventory management in the backend, Google Vision to scan the groceries, the Meal DB recipe API to generate recipes. Features include grocery item scanning, automatic recipe generation and suggestions based upon your inventory, and a social feed with collaborative cooking suggestions.

Challenges we ran into

Integrating real-time ingredient tracking with recipe suggestions was tricky, especially when managing the computer vision component. Many features of the app are all interconnected so we had to successfully figure out the camera function to scan and store the grocery items, then connect them to the pantry, which connects to the recipe API that regenerates recipes based upon your initial ingredients.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We successfully built an app that combines our passions for food, technology, and social connection. We pushed through numerous difficulties with the computer vision aspect, database management, and frontend development, but we believe the app has a real place and can help other college students grow their cooking experience and memories with friends.

What we learned

We each learned a lot about app development as we had very little experience with it previously. We learned how to combine social features with practical tools and think like a developer, handling real-time data syncing and design for user experience. In addition, we gained experience working as a team through each of our bugs and backend and frontend challenges.

What's next for FeedMe

In the future, we hope to fully integrate the social media aspect to connect users with their friends using the recipe suggestions. Additionally, we hope to fix aspects of the frontend development to make the app fully functional and updated with our additional features.

Built With

• expo.io
• googlevision
• mealdb
• node.js
• reactnative
• supabase
• typescript