I open sourced my startup
So I've spent the last 3 years attempting to teach a computer how to understand recipes. What they taste like, ingredients you'd need to make them. If they have animal products or are gluten free. If they're a dessert. This work involved a lot of natural language processing, Beyesian filtering, etc. With this, I built a very powerful recipe search engine. It allows you to find recipes using some pretty interesting queries. For example, if the user wants to make 5 recipes that will efficiently use a head of lettuce, 12 bananas, a pound of salmon, and 6 eggs, it can find the most efficient set of recipes that will use as much of those ingredients as possible, while requiring the user to have to buy as few new ingredients as possible. It's also able to normalize the ingredients across all recipes to build really accurate shopping lists. For example, if one recipe calls f
Why it failed
So I've spent the last 3 years attempting to teach a computer how to understand recipes. What they taste like, ingredients you'd need to make them. If they have animal products or are gluten free. If they're a dessert. This work involved a lot of natural language p
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- MikeChristensen
- Ended
- 2014
- Source
- hackernews