
Built an AI recipe app that suggests meals based on ingredients you already have
Hey everyone,
I recently built a small project called CookVault — an AI recipe assistant that suggests recipes based on ingredients you already have in your kitchen.
You can enter ingredients like:
“tomato, onion, potato, peas”
and it generates practical recipe suggestions using NVIDIA DeepSeek AI + Spoonacular API.
Tech stack:
- Next.js
- TypeScript
- NVIDIA AI APIs
- Spoonacular API
- Tailwind CSS
Some things I learned while building it:
- AI response optimization/prompting
- handling slow inference responses
- structuring Next.js API routes properly
- improving AI output formatting for UX
Still improving the UI/UX and recipe relevance, but the core functionality is working now.
Would genuinely appreciate feedback or feature suggestions.