Cook It Easy story
Preface
My wife and me struggled a lot of times during cooking at evenings. We tried to find a cooking receipt quickly and start cooking, but we observed websites with tons of ads or not sufficient content for recipes, while we needed only a text based receipt for quick cook.
Four days ago in evening I explained my ideas about different products and how another people build AI based products to my wife and she generated an excellent idea:
Let’s build a website where we can find cooking receipts quickly.
Main idea of a website was — take a user input, redirect it to an AI model which will find a recipe and show a result to the user.
I think a little bit and agreed with it, development started.
A web site: https://cooksiteasy.com/
Technologies
We should launch a web site as fast as possible, so I chose a Python programming language to delegate programming work to my wife. Also Python was an ideal technology due to Streamlit library which is super powerful tool for quick UI build or prototyping, I will use it in another projects too. So development stack was chosed for my wife, I in the same time focused on an infrastructure tasks.
Development
First version of an application should contains only text input where user will type a recipe of dish which he/she want to receive and send it to our back-end by pressing enter. This version was built in an one day. More time took an infrastructure things where I used AWS Elastic Container Service to deploy our application and easy adjust autoscaling. So even first version of an application will handle traffic spikes and provide high availability for us.
Release
I annonced a release of a website in my Instagram and LinkedIn. Also I’m planning to add website at ProductHunt in an one week when my account will be active.
Released version is available here.
Conclusions
This was a story about releasing a first version of https://cooksiteasy.com/
Our next steps will be:
- Add a feature to create a recipe from provided products.
- Add a feature to generate week diets for fat loose.
After next release I will explain infrastructure in this applications an processes which are important during software development cycle for a new release.
