Inspiration
With Yelp being on every phone, it's easy to find places to eat around town. But for the home cook, finding a recipe can be difficult.
What it does
QuickChef takes in a keyword, and shows the user a recipe related to that key word. A list is then made of the necessary ingredients, which is then confirmed by the user. Finally, the user enters their information and hits order. The information from the user is not used currently, but in a full program it would create an account and deliver the ingredients for the recipe to the door of the user.
How we built it
We used a combination of JavaScript, PHP, HTML5, and an online API called Spoonacular.
Challenges we ran into
The NCR API's were either unavailable, or we just could not get them to work no matter how much time we put towards understanding them.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
The fact that the project works at all is astounding to us. For our first hackathon, I'm just proud a mostly functional product came out.
What we learned
So many things. Transferring information between web pages, how to host a server, countless strategies for formatting HTML5, and much more.
What's next for QuickChef!
We hope to expand QuickChef and complete the functionality. We would also like to leverage an API from NCR that allows collaboration with local delivery services, although that was not available to us this weekend.
NOTE NOTE: QuickChef uses the Spoonacular API, which only allows a finite number of calls before it cuts you off each day. Also, the images below were created during the mockup process, the final product may be slightly different.
Built With
- html5
- javascript
- php
- spoonacular

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