You perfect recipet helper - CheatDayDontMeanCheap

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Inspiration

I want to lose weight and I do enjoy cooking,
as I scroll on ig, always saw some high protein recipe,
but when I saved them always disappear in the ig reels
and find it hard to plan a whole week's meals
myfitnesspal is great, but still not enough
so I decide made a better one, with the function I long for

What it does

save your own ingredient
search for the macro
save your own recipe
generate the most viral recipe from the internet
draft your own recipe, with macro detail
automatic cal the kcals and macro
auto turn the links into a detail recipe, of coz with kcal and macro
store my favourite recipe with the macro detail
weekly meal planner

How we built it

all on bolt new, and I challenge myself for not server need, which
means I will only use supabase for backend
with the supabase edge function and cron function
I will be able to control the rate of request and avoid put the api key on my frontend

Challenges we ran into

there is rate limit for the api from usda api,
but I do it by separate to quick search and deep search
quick search is query supabase
while deep search is query using api

Accomplishments that we're proud of

no a single server is used in the project,
only supabase, front end on netlify, and sort of saas
a seamless experience for use, straight from a single link to a recipe also with the ingredient macro

What we learned

serverless not means simple
need to design well the logic and cache
llm is powerful, but still need validation
sometimes use what you have is better than build from scratch