recipe hero
the recipe you wanted is usually somewhere under a life story. this digs it out, then lets you change it.
Paste a link to a recipe and Recipe Hero pulls out the parts you cook from, the ingredients and the steps, into one clean format. From there you can ask for changes in plain language, swap an ingredient, or apply one of a few preset changes.
We built it over a weekend at uOttaHack 8. Every recipe site formats things differently, and we wanted one clean version you could cook from, and change.
I was one of three developers. We split the work across the app over the weekend, from importing the recipe to the screen where you ask for changes.
The recipe is turned into a consistent structure before the AI touches it, so the model is changing a known list of ingredients and steps, not trying to make sense of a page full of ads.