NutrifyUMD

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Inspiration

I'm a first-year at UMD interested in health and wellness, so I thought I would create something for my friends and I to eat well at the dining halls.

What it is

NutrifyUMD is a meal planning app for UMD students. It has access to the nutrition facts data for every food item on the UMD dining hall menu for the current week. Combining this data with the users height, weight, BMI, etc. + fitness/nutrition goal, Nutrify UMD creates a personalized dining hall meal plan that hits Xg of protein, Yg of carbs, etc.

How it was built

I hand-coded the web scraper, then worked together with Claude Code to create the frontend and backend. The meal plan generation is powered by the open-source Llama 3.3 model via Groq-API.

Challenges

Scraping the data was the hardest part. I had to deal with a lot of annoying little things when cleaning the dataset, and spent hours overthinking solutions to simple problems.

Something I'm proud of

I didn't force myself to stay up the entire hackathon, and as a result was able to have more fun.

What I learned

I learned more about the higher level web dev concepts and feel more confident that the next time I make an app it will go much smoother.

What's next for NutrifyUMD

I'm going to try and see if my peers like it. If they do, I'll try and get as many people as possible at UMD to know about it as I can, so that more people can benefit from the app.

Built With

• beautiful-soup
• groq
• javascript
• llama-3.3
• python
• react
• vercel
• vite