Simmer

Inspiration

As college students living away from home, we know the feeling of opening the fridge and not knowing what to make, or not being able to afford a grocery run. We built Simmer for students who miss home-cooked meals, parents who want to share their recipes with the world, and anyone who believes good food shouldn't require a full pantry or a culinary degree.

What it does

Simmer is a recipe-sharing social platform that meets you where you are. Users can browse and share recipes in a short-form, visual format similar to Instagram and Substack. Additionally Simmer utilizes an AI chatbot that matches ingredients and suggests meals based on what you already have on hand. Whether you're a college student working with limited ingredients, a sous chef at home wanting to share your favorites, or a chef building an audience, Simmer brings the home-cooked experience to everyone.

How we built it

Our focus for the challenge was utilizing Figma and we utilized Figma community templates to help us choose our mobile design. Our app additionally takes inspiration from a couple of social media apps: Instagram & Substack!

Challenges we ran into

Our team is all beginners with Figma therefore, we often found it challenging to connect elements in our design to a desired destination.

We began by disconnecting all connections and starting again. When that didn’t work, one of us sought help from the WeHack mentors, one of us experimented with the prototype connections, and one of us found that the issue lay in duplicated frames that were lost within our layers.

Therefore, we intentionally organized our layers and named our frames to have specific connection uses.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

First Hackathon EVER! 🎊1️⃣ We are so proud to have made a beautiful and functional prototype from an idea that we were really excited about.

What we learned

• Making connections in Figma
• Developing a cohesive design
• Having fun building a cool solution

What's next for Simmer

A gamified dietary goals section that would include a user’s calorie, protein, and fiber intake targets. This portion would essentially make reaching these goals exciting through a gamified interface where users can collect points.

Many social media apps allow users to find content related to a specific topic through tags. Our second idea was to add tags in the menu cards, such as diet and the cuisine type.

Built With

• figma