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Show HN: Vegetarian Recipe Finder

by brunooliv on 1/2/24, 5:46 AM with 8 comments

I managed to build a basic healthy recipes app from scratch with ChatGPT4 and a new service that I learned from there in 10 min!! What a time to be alive.

I started with a list of ingredients and my prompts were along the lines of: give me a list of healthy vegan or vegetarian recipes with these ingredients. From there I decided to be very efficient and said that I needed to turn that concept into a simple search engine and host it in the simplest possible way and I actually learned about Glitch thanks to it!! Just type an ingredient and get back a list of healthy recipes containing said ingredient!

Incredibly simple and fun and it truly puts the simplicity and joy right back into building things!!

  • by rstnpce on 1/2/24, 4:22 PM

    Hey there, that's extremely cool! I like the simplicity the most. One thing to improve on would be a error message that explains why there are sometimes no results (e.g., I type in "ginger tofu" and there is no recipe even though there is a Ginger Tofu that shows up if I type in tofu alone.)

    Besides that I was also wondering what kind of tech stack did you use to create the search?

    I'm still looking for a similar solution to query data on my Wordpress website (it's currently inside an app but I want to transition to an all-in-one solution eventually).

  • by peterpost2 on 1/7/24, 1:18 AM

    Looks neet! some thoughts/bugs: -if you select the buttons using the tab functionality the search button is not bordered on all four sides. The all-recipes and favorites button are not bordered at all -It's not very apparent where the search functionality actually search in. seems like it only works for what is loaded in for the current page?

  • by whycome on 1/2/24, 6:22 AM

    Make this mobile friendly! (Quick CSS addition) Cool app!