SPECS

Functionalities

• Pass in ingredients, time, cooking technologies available: get recipes that meet your criteria
• Increase your selection by adding new recipes
• Add photos of finished food
• Like recipes that you enjoyed
• Invite friends over

Extensions

• Without exact ingredients, how can you customize (could use AI)
• Recommend recipes based on what your family and friends like, and occasional entirely new recipe (discovery)
• Add music you like listening to while cooking. Over time create a playlist (Communicates with APIs like Spotify, Apple Music etc)

Other Ideas

• Vector Embeddings and Nearest Neighbor Search
• Similarity Comparison: Cosine, Jacard
• Caching most popular searches (extension)
  • Exact vs partial matches (e.g in terms of ingredients or cooking tech)
  • Filtering: could filter out recipes that require unavailable ingredients or cooking tech or time

Simplifications

• Initially account for 20 ingredients, further ingredients may require more substantial change in schema

Design

recipe/
├── manage.py
├── recipe/
│ ├── __init__.py
│ ├── settings.py
│ ├── urls.py
│ └── wsgi.py
├── apps/
│ ├── accounts/ # User management
│ ├── recipes/ # Recipe CRUD, search
│ ├── social/ # Invites, likes, friends
│ └── recommendations/ # Vector embeddings, ML
├── static/
├── templates/
└── requirements.txt

Tasks Remaining

1. Finish setting up the database
2. Implement user authentication
3. Intermediate testing (difficult but find a way to do it)
4. User Interface design
5. Handling Images
6. Incorporate approximate/fuzzy searching