Can I vibe code Paprika?
Recipe box, meal planner, and grocery list in one app.
A recipe manager might be the single most beloved personal build there is — everyone's version fits their own kitchen. The core is a joy: most recipe sites embed schema.org/Recipe JSON-LD, so 'paste a URL, get clean ingredients and steps with no ad-choked life story' is one parser away. Add a week planner and a grocery list that merges ingredients and you've covered 90% of Paprika. What you skip is their native apps and cross-device sync — fine, yours is a PWA on your phone.
Build my personal Paprika: a recipe manager PWA. Import: paste a URL, fetch the page, parse schema.org/Recipe JSON-LD (fall back to an LLM extraction for stubborn pages) into title, image, servings, ingredients, and steps in Postgres. Views: searchable recipe box with tags, a distraction-free cook mode with big text and step check-off, a weekly planner grid I drag recipes onto, and a grocery list that merges duplicate ingredients by unit and groups by aisle, with tap-to-check on my phone. Make it installable as a PWA with offline reads. Next.js on Vercel plus hosted Postgres.
A recipe box that imports any recipe URL into clean ingredients and steps, plus a weekly meal planner and an auto-merged grocery list you check off at the store.
- Native apps on every platform with offline sync between them
- Their hardened scraper for the minority of sites without structured recipe data
- Pantry tracking, scaling tools, and timers baked into cook mode
- Effortless sharing with a partner who didn't sign up for your side project
A cheap one-time license that the whole household already syncs with beats being the on-call developer for dinner.
A prompt is the first move, not the whole game. Course 01 teaches you to take a prompt like this one to a shipped, working app — reviewing, correcting, and steering the agent the whole way.
Start Course 01 →