Hi all,
App is available only on Android for now as a MVP:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.blacksmith.fridgescanner.release
While traveling around the Europe for 10 month last year I came across an issue where I had to cook a food, but wanted to use specific ingredients to do so when I felt too lazy to go to a shop. Sometimes I had eaten potatoes 3 days in a row and wanted to have something different. I found a few apps that allow me to do that, but every single one of them was missing few core functions that I thought were crucial.
I wanted:- easy step-by-step instructions- different recipes- simple and clean UI- advanced filter for diets, meal types etc.
Besides these features, I thought that it would be really cool if user could use real-time camera feed to recognize different kinds of veggies. Add them to the basket and then search based on what you really have. Now, this is one of the features that I have not seen any other similar apps do and I feel really proud of. Huge room for improvement though.
The AI model is not yet as good as I want it to be, but I plan to focus on making it a lot better if there’s going to be people that find this valuable. It does detect veggies quite well, but sometimes makes a mistake here and there - which can be corrected by user manual input. Plan is to train the model to be a lot faster and a lot more precise so this does not happen in the future.
From idea to actually developing the app it took me around 6 months. Went through quite a lot of sleepless nights, not gonna lie, haha.
App is completely free and I’d highly value any recommendations or ideas that you would love to see in the app (or any bugs, this is the first release and I’ve not had resources to test it properly on different devices). I’ll not “beg” for 5 star review, but if you leave one - much love to you, I highly appreciate it.
