FridgeMe | Devpost

1) App Home page
2) Camera
3) Items added via Google Vision API
4) Recipes generated based on available ingredients
5) Chosen recipe with detailed instructions
6) Continued from (5)

Inspiration

Have you ever stared upon your lowly little fridge and thought to yourself, how could you make anything at all with all the crap you keep in your fridge? Fret no more! Being a college student ourselves, we tend to be lazy to cook food, and every time we do want to make something, we would not know what to do with all the food ingredients we have in the fridge, and those things will end up long in the fridge before you realize they have become bad. That's wasteful. That's bad. It's time for a change.

What it does

It's a mobile app that lets you take a picture of your groceries and the food items in your fridge and the app will intelligently tell you what you can make (i.e. food recipes) based on what you have in your fridge. It also inventories the food items in your fridge and give them a freshness score so you know what's in there and what's going to go bad soon.

How we built it

We used React Native for the mobile app, connected it with Google's Vision API for image recognition, and extracted recipe data from the Spoonacular API.

Challenges we ran into

This is our first time using Google Cloud's Vision API. It took us some time trying to connect the Vision API to the app. Also, we weren't familiar with React Native, so there was a lot of first-times and frustrations.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We're proud that we've been able to produce a visually compelling app. We spent a lot of time working on the UI part, and we think it shows. Also, considering that React Native is cross platform, we're proud that we're able to create a product that works on both ends of the mobile ecosystem.