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Alchemy

AI-powered meal planning that turns groceries into personalized recipes.

Role
Product Development
Type
Web Application
Stack
React, Firebase, Vertex AI

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About Alchemy

Plan your meals and build shopping lists in one place. Add recipes however you want—scan receipts, snap ingredients, paste URLs, or describe what you're craving. Alchemy creates organized shopping lists and handles the full meal planning workflow.

Smart recipe suggestions home screen

Smart Suggestions

AI surfaces recipes from what's in your kitchen and shows exactly what you're missing

Cookbook recipe library

Recipe Library

Saved and suggested recipes in one place, filterable by time, cuisine, and diet

Step-by-step cooking mode

Cooking Mode

Step-by-step instructions with ingredients highlighted inline

Multi-modal recipe capture

Multi-Modal Capture

Add recipes by pasting text, dropping a URL, or snapping a photo

Smart shopping list

Smart Shopping List

Auto-grouped by aisle and generated from the recipes you're cooking

Ask Alchemy AI kitchen assistant

AI Kitchen Assistant

Plan the week, cook from your pantry, or just ask for something to make

Key Features

  • Meal planning: Drag-and-drop calendar with nutrition tracking
  • Smart shopping lists: Auto-generated from your meal plan with Kroger and Instacart checkout
  • Flexible recipe input: Receipt scanning, ingredient photos, URLs, or text descriptions
  • Personalized recipes: Based on your preferences and dietary needs

Technology & Approach

Built with React, Firebase, and Google Vertex AI. Shipped 90+ features across 12 versions with 15+ complete user flows, from receipt scanning to meal planning to grocery checkout.