Macaly's AI agent builds a working recipe app from a single conversation — you pick ingredients, it generates real recipes using AI, stores favorites in a database, and designs the whole thing to look like a food magazine. Three prompts, ~15 minutes, no coding.
One prompt. Ingredient picker, dietary filters, AI recipe generation, full interface. I set up the database, connect the AI, and build it all in one go.
Build a "what's in my fridge" recipe app. Users select ingredients from categories like proteins, vegetables, dairy, and pantry staples. Add dietary filters for vegetarian, gluten-free, and dairy-free. Use AI to generate 5 recipes with cook time, difficulty, servings, and step-by-step instructions.
Now it remembers. Saved recipes go to a real database — not browser storage. Close the tab, come back tomorrow. Still there.
Add a personal cookbook. Let users save favorite recipes and view them in a separate tab with search and dietary filtering. No login needed.
This is where it stops looking like a tech demo. Typography, colors, layout, custom logo — I design everything to match the vibe you want.
Redesign it like a food magazine. Cream background, dark teal text, serif headings, lots of whitespace. Minimal recipe cards. Create a logo called "Fridgé" with a fridge icon. Add animations.
The app uses an AI language model to write 5 brand-new recipes based on exactly the ingredients you selected. Every time you search, the recipes are generated fresh — not pulled from a static database, not scraped from a recipe site. You pick what's in your fridge, I figure out what you can cook with it.
I provisioned a Convex database that stores every recipe you save. It's not local storage — close the tab, switch devices, come back next week. Your cookbook is still there. Search by recipe name, filter by dietary preference. Your collection grows every time you cook.
Not a template. I looked at what a recipe app needs and designed around it — serif headings for editorial warmth, a cream background with dark teal text for readability, whitespace so the layout breathes, and smooth page transitions. The result feels like a food magazine, not a side project.
Fridgé got its own identity. I generated a minimalist fridge icon, paired it with matching typography, and built a consistent color system across every screen. Designed specifically for this app — not picked from a template library. Because obviously.
The layout adapts to desktop, tablet, and phone with no compromises. Same features, same design quality, same experience. I already took care of it.
I wrote 26 automated tests covering ingredient selection, dietary filters, cookbook search, and recipe saving. Not just visually checked — programmatically verified. If something breaks, I know before you do.
