Pancake

💡 Inspiration

Recovering from health issues often starts with one thing: improving what we eat. But staying consistent with a diet is hard — you need variety, reminders, and food that still tastes good. I wanted to create a tool that doesn’t just give random recipes, but truly adapts to your health goals and medical needs. Pancake was built from my own journey: facing health problems ( allergies), I realized food can be the first step to recovery — if you can plan, track, and enjoy it.

⚡ What it does

• Scans your grocery receipts and builds recipes from what you already have.
• Lets you plan meals for a week, a month, or a custom time frame (up to 40 days).
• Adjusts meals based on your health conditions and dietary goals (weight loss, muscle gain, recovery, breastfeeding, elderly nutrition, etc.).
• Generates an ingredients list for what you want to cook.
• Tracks nutritional values (calories, proteins, fats, sodium, vitamins) and adapts over time.
• Sends reminders on when to cook or prepare meals, helping you stay on track.
• Acts like a personal dietician + chef, making sure your food is both healthy and enjoyable.

🛠️ How we built it

• Frontend: FlutterFlow
• Backend: Supabase (auth, database, user preferences).
• OCR: ocr.space to scan and process receipts.
• Recipes & Nutrition: Spoonacular for real meals, images, and full nutrition breakdown.
• Notifications: Push reminders for cooking schedules

🚧 Challenges we ran into

• Designing a diet system that adapts to different health goals without being overwhelming.
• Linking OCR-scanned ingredients to real recipes accurately.
• Ensuring no repeated recipes while keeping the meal plan real based on the receipt.
• Getting nutrition tracking right (valid data, not estimates). *Actually * adjucting meals to the user health.
• Balancing speed (AI-generated builds) with real security and persistence.

🏆 Accomplishments that we’re proud of

• Built a diet-first recipe system, not just a recipe generator.
• Connected real receipts → ingredients → meal plan → nutrition tracking.
• Created reminders + planning tools that help users stick to their health goals.
• Personalized the entire cooking experience to health recovery and long-term wellness.

📚 What we learned

• Food is deeply personal — users want a system that’s not only smart but also empathetic to their health struggles.
• Building with AI tools (like Flutterflow) can accelerate innovation, but careful testing is key for trust.
• Nutrition accuracy and recipe diversity are crucial for real-world impact.
• Hackathons are less about “perfect code” and more about solving a meaningful problem fast.

🚀 What’s next for Pancake

• Add integrations with Apple Health, Fitbit, and Samsung Health for automated nutrition + activity syncing.
• Introduce doctor/dietitian collaboration features, where professionals can set dietary plans inside the app.
• Build a community recipe-sharing feature, filtered by diet type and health conditions.

-* 🍽️Pancake = Better life 🥞 *

Built With

• flutterflow
• spoonacular
• typescript