ReciPin - Your Smart Kitchen Companion.

Inspiration

ReciPin started from a very real frustration: I already had great recipes saved everywhere—but never where I needed them. Instagram saves, TikTok likes, bookmarks, screenshots, notes… when it was time to cook, everything was scattered and hard to find.

I wanted one place that truly respects how people discover recipes today and turns that chaos into something useful.

What it does

ReciPin is a smart recipe companion that lets users:

Import recipes from any website or social media platform

Save everything in one searchable, organized place

Snap a photo of available ingredients and get AI-suggested recipes

Automatically generate smart grocery lists and meal prep plans

The goal is simple: make cooking feel effortless instead of overwhelming.

How we built it

ReciPin is built as a modern mobile app with a strong focus on performance, UX, and scalability.

Key technical choices:

Flutter for a fast, cross-platform experience

Supabase for authentication, database, and edge functions

AI-powered extraction to turn links, photos, and text into structured recipes

RevenueCat to handle subscriptions, paywalls, and entitlement logic cleanly

RevenueCat allowed me to focus on building the product instead of reinventing subscription infrastructure, especially during rapid iteration.

Challenges & Learnings

The biggest challenge was handling messy, real-world data:

Recipes come in different formats, languages, and structures

Social media content is not designed to be “parsed”

Solving this pushed me to design flexible AI pipelines and resilient data models. Another key learning was when to monetize—Shipyard helped reinforce building value first, then layering monetization thoughtfully.