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Show HN: Meals You Love – AI-powered meal planning and grocery shopping

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Re: Show HN: Meals You Love – AI-powered meal planning and grocery shopping

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I want to thank you for telling us Kroger has an API. This excites me.

Albertsons (and also Safeway) has a kind of hidden API that I use to pull all my grocery purchases into a Postgres DB in order to see what's what. https://bsky.app/profile/davidwelton.bsky.social/post/3m34al...

Is there a way to know when chuck roast is on sale?

Re: Show HN: Meals You Love – AI-powered meal planning and grocery shopping

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I photographed everything in my fridge and everything in my cupboards and uploaded it to an LLM and photographed by shopping receipts and asked it to create weight loss meal plans based on my existing shopping and food buying habits. Worked real nice. Did I make it into a business? Should everything be a SAAS? Nah.

I mean the llm you used is a saas. But the question is whether a framework for doing this has value (I think it does)

Re: Show HN: Meals You Love – AI-powered meal planning and grocery shopping

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I photographed everything in my fridge and everything in my cupboards and uploaded it to an LLM and photographed by shopping receipts and asked it to create weight loss meal plans based on my existing shopping and food buying habits. Worked real nice. Did I make it into a business? Should everything be a SAAS? Nah.

I mean the llm you used is a saas. But the question is whether a framework for doing this has value (I think it does)

I then added on an SMS message that tells me things I COULD eat at every meal time. It does not say what I must eat, only presents options - I don't like being told what I must eat, all I want to know is what's the best choices of what I have, then I can choose.

  Time for Lunch.
  Choose one of:
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  Tuna salad: 1/2 cup tuna (drained) + 3 cups salad greens + 1/2 cup beetroot + vinegar/lemon (≈850 kJ)
  ---
  Egg salad: 2 boiled eggs (chopped) + 3 cups salad veg + 1/4 cup grated cheese (≈1000 kJ)
  ---
  Chicken salad bowl: 1/2 cup cooked chicken pieces + 3 cups salad veg (≈950 kJ)
  ---
  Minestrone soup: 2 cups (≈1060 kJ)
  ---
  Creamy chicken soup: 2 cups (≈1090 kJ)

Re: Show HN: Meals You Love – AI-powered meal planning and grocery shopping

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I photographed everything in my fridge and everything in my cupboards and uploaded it to an LLM and photographed by shopping receipts and asked it to create weight loss meal plans based on my existing shopping and food buying habits. Worked real nice. Did I make it into a business? Should everything be a SAAS? Nah.

I'd pay you for that. Take my money you SaaS!

Re: Show HN: Meals You Love – AI-powered meal planning and grocery shopping

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post #35

I photographed everything in my fridge and everything in my cupboards and uploaded it to an LLM and photographed by shopping receipts and asked it to create weight loss meal plans based on my existing shopping and food buying habits. Worked real nice. Did I make it into a business? Should everything be a SAAS? Nah.

I'd pay you for that. Take my money you SaaS!

Why? Just drop the pics into CHatGPT and say "make me a weight loss meal plan based on what I have in the fridge and the cupboards"

You could make a website that does that in a couple of hours.

Re: Show HN: Meals You Love – AI-powered meal planning and grocery shopping

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Once you get some recipes back this is pretty cool, but it took like 5 minutes to generate the recipes which doesn't super work for a sign up flow.

Sorry it’s a bit of a nitpick.

Not at all a nitpick, it is one of the things that is painful in the app IMO. I think the length of time for some of the operations is one of the bigger reasons for people to bounce after initial sign up. I need to think if there are some clever ways to improve the onboarding experience such as trying to pre-generate some recipes during/after the onboarding flow.
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