Plan my family's meals for my weight-loss challenge

A dad of two under two steered the AI to build Forkcast, a weekly meal-planning and calorie-tracking web app, because existing apps plan only a day at a time. It generates his grocery list from the week's plan and imports recipes from photos and labels for his 90-day weight-loss challenge.

How it works

Direct the AI to build the planner
Plan the family's week and calories
App generates the grocery list from the plan
Import recipes from photos and food labels with his own API key

Why it’s worth knowing

Instead of subscribing to another meal app, he had the agent build the exact planner his family needed and open-sourced it.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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