Are you tired of navigating through generation-old-worn-down-tea-stained cook books? Or do you simply want a better place to manage your recipe collection than the notes app? Well then the MA is the place for you. Simply snap your old Mima’s cookbook pages and enjoy it being automatically scanned and formatted for easy management and recollection! Share your recipe collection with your friends! (But not the secret mac and cheese one or Nana won’t be happy). Ask our unique totallyNotChatGPT AI to make you new recipes based on your acquired taste!
MVP 🏆
User authentication
Scan user uploaded images for text
Allow user to categorize recipes into collections (perhaps by cultural aspects)
Automatically format all scanned recipes to fit a "standard" form
Allow manual user input for recipes
Share archive with friends using upload as pdf (or some other file format)
Stretch Goals ⏳
Generate a new recipe using common trends in personal taste
A blog site extension to share different cultural cuisines
Spin to Din! (Gives you a random meal to make [may need pantry content implementation to keep it plausible])
Expand to IOS user base (might not be as easy as we're hoping)
Milestones 🚀
Week
Tasks
Front-end
Back-end
1
Choose weekly meeting time/s. Choose front vs back-end teams. Learn git basics.
2
Set up tech stacks, IDE's, and watch tutorials.
Get started on wireframes
more tutorials :)
3
15% complete
Finalize wireframe and begin implementation in dart
Learn dart and firebase and create user auth
4-5
50% complete
Finish wireframe implementation and work perfecting it
Research image to text conversion and begin implementation
6
70% complete
Help the back end with any extra time
Complete OCR and optimize it for handwriting
7-8
100% - Integrate the front and back-end
Stretch goal UI and decide presentation slide deck
Stretch goal features
9
Create presentation and begin rehearsing it
10
Finalize presentation and rehearse it in front of others
Getting the database to work may take some time and effort but this is easily solvable using cooperative learning and the proper resources.
The OCR may not be entirely effective for handwritten recipes so we may need to work on optimizing it to the best of our ability (the new ready to use google ml kit comes pretrained so this depends on how well trained it is)
Feeling lost or experiencing imposter syndrome is a roadblock not a u-turn. Sometimes it is unavoidable and can lead to major unwarranted self-doubt. The best solution is your team members, pm, and anyone else in the acm projects program, so don't be afraid, whatever you're going through is nothing but a temporary roadblock.
Competition
CookBook - Can scan but not optimized for handwritten recipes. Paid service leaves much to be desired.
Paprika Recipe Manager - no scanning and only free on android
Yummly - lets you find and favorite recipes but not store your own.
