Hi HN, I'm a solo student dev. Souva started with a problem my mom and I always ran into: we'd open a full fridge and have no idea what to make, then open a full pantry and still have no idea what to make. Most recipe apps expect you to find a recipe and go out and get everything, but we didn't have the time or the space for niche ingredients we'd only ever use once. Souva works with what you already have.
You enter what you have by snapping a photo of your fridge, scanning a barcode, or typing it in, and the app finds recipes you can actually make right now. If you're like me and always have a mix of niche ingredients, SouvAI will invent brand new recipes from exactly what you have. You can also import any recipe from a URL to save it.
Build details: React Native/Expo on iOS and Android, backend on Cloudflare Workers, and recipe generation runs through Hugging Face inference providers so I can route across multiple providers instead of marrying a single API. It's free and has no accounts. I run ads to cover hosting and AI costs, so photo scans had to cost around $0.002 each behind a cap of 3 per day, and AI generations are capped at 5 (watching an ad tops either up).
I'd most want feedback on how good the AI-invented recipes actually are. Generations provide users confidence scores, but the recipes' actual taste is the thing I want to test thoroughly. Try Souva on the weirdest ingredient combos in your fridge and let me know if you'd actually cook the recipes it generates you!
Free on iOS and Android: https://souva.app
