Hey HN! I'm Rachelle - I built Recipe Shelf to solve my own problem: recipes scattered across bookmarks, screenshots, random apps, and photos of my mum's handwritten recipe cards.
I tried existing apps but couldn't find one that handled all my use cases well - especially importing from different sources reliably.
What it does:
Scrape recipes from websites (currently supports 15 sites) and TikTok
Extract recipes from photos using OCR (GPT-4 Vision)
Manual entry for family recipes
Scaling and unit conversion
Search and organise everything in one place
Tech stack:
- Frontend: React Native Web + Expo
- Backend: Kotlin + Spring Boot
- Database: PostgreSQL
- Infrastructure: AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, CloudFront)
- OCR: GPT-4 Vision API
Built this while working full-time as a software engineer, so it's been a slow burn over the past year. Web is live now, mobile apps coming soon.
Happy to answer any questions about the tech or the journey. Would love feedback!
(Posting this while literally cooking dinner for my family - seemed fitting )
I tried existing apps but couldn't find one that handled all my use cases well - especially importing from different sources reliably.
What it does:
Scrape recipes from websites (currently supports 15 sites) and TikTok
Extract recipes from photos using OCR (GPT-4 Vision)
Manual entry for family recipes
Scaling and unit conversion
Search and organise everything in one place
Tech stack:
- Frontend: React Native Web + Expo
- Backend: Kotlin + Spring Boot
- Database: PostgreSQL
- Infrastructure: AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, CloudFront)
- OCR: GPT-4 Vision API
Built this while working full-time as a software engineer, so it's been a slow burn over the past year. Web is live now, mobile apps coming soon.
Happy to answer any questions about the tech or the journey. Would love feedback!
(Posting this while literally cooking dinner for my family - seemed fitting )