Understand free text
Titles, servings, ingredients and steps are detected across different formats.
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Recipe Parser
Any recipe text becomes a focused cooking mode
A mobile recipe app automatically structures free text into ingredients, quantities, steps and timers.
TONIGHT'S RECIPESpicy miso
Spicy miso
ramen.
Rich, warm and ready in under 40 minutes.
35 min2 servings
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STEP 03 / 06Build the broth
Add miso, stock and aromatics. Simmer gently.
1input field
JSONstructured handoff
mobilebuilt for the kitchen
CHbuilt in Switzerland
The starting point
The real problem.
Recipes arrive from chats, websites and notes in completely different formats. Cooking, however, needs a consistent mobile experience.
The solution
One connected system.
A model extracts only a validated data format. From there, the product behaves like a classic database app without unnecessary AI calls.
Product experience
Complex logic.
Clear interaction.
A short, deliberate product flow: paste text, review the structure, save it and cook one step at a time.
TONIGHT'S RECIPESpicy miso
Spicy miso
ramen.
Rich, warm and ready in under 40 minutes.
35 min2 servings
〰
STEP 03 / 06Build the broth
Add miso, stock and aromatics. Simmer gently.
Key capabilities
Scale servings
Structured quantities adapt reliably to more or fewer people.
Step mode
Clear single instructions and optional timers support the cooking process.
Directly editable
After extraction, every value remains normal, controllable data.
System architecture
From input to a useful outcome.
Every component has a clear responsibility, keeping data flows, failures and future extensions traceable.
01Recipe text→
02App API→
03n8n & Claude→
04Schema validation→
05Supabase→
06Mobile cooking mode
Engineering decisions
Deliberate decisions instead of invisible magic.
Good systems define not only what should happen, but also what deliberately remains outside automation.
- Never invent missing values
- AI only for one-time extraction
- Simple password-protected private app
- Editing happens on structured data