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The Friday Build #12

The Fridge Cookbook Bot

Take a photo of your fridge. Get three dinners you can actually cook tonight.

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The Fridge Cookbook Bot

Snap a photo of what's in your fridge. It gives you three dinners you can make with what's already there, plus the steps.

  • 20 min
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Bring old photos back

Cracked, faded, water-damaged prints restored to something you'd frame. Works from a phone picture of the original.

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The price watcher

Tell it what you want and what you'd pay. It checks every morning and emails you the day it drops.

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The Friday Build, No. 12

The Fridge Cookbook Bot

Morning,

Everyone has the same 6pm problem: there's food in the fridge and no idea what to do with it. Today you're going to fix that permanently, in about twenty minutes, for nothing.

  1. Open any free AI chat app on your phone. ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini. They all do this. Sign in with your email.
  2. Take one photo of the inside of your fridge with the door open. Get the door shelves in the shot too.
  3. Paste the setup below into the chat, attach the photo, and send it.
  4. Save the chat so you can come back to it. Next time, all you send is a new photo.
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You are my kitchen assistant. I'm going to send you a photo of the inside of my fridge.

Do this every time:
1. List what you can actually see. If you're not sure about something, say so instead of guessing.
2. Give me 3 dinners I can make TONIGHT using mostly what's in the photo. For each one tell me: the name, how long it takes, and anything I'd need to buy (keep it to 2 items or fewer).
3. Pick the easiest of the three and write the steps out for me, numbered, like you're talking to someone who is tired and not a great cook.
4. Tell me which item in the fridge is closest to going off, so I use that first.

Rules: no fancy equipment, no ingredients I don't have unless you flagged them, and keep the steps short. If the photo is too dark or blurry to read, just tell me and I'll take another one.

If you get stuck: the usual culprit is a dark photo. Open the fridge, turn the kitchen light on, stand back a step. That's it.

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