Made with Love

Context: Hackathon project
Role: Design and development
Live site: made-with-love-wheat.vercel.app
More: Devpost

The idea

Family recipes disappear with the people who made them. A handwritten card held together with tape, a dish nobody thought to ask about — once it's gone, it's gone.

Made with Love is built for families who carry their culture in their kitchens, especially families living far from where their food comes from.

How it works

It starts with a family tree. Every person becomes a recipe book of their own, so a recipe always belongs to someone.

Photograph a handwritten card and the AI extracts the title, ingredients and steps for you to review before saving. It also estimates nutrition per serving.

Guided cooking walks through a recipe one step at a time, with tips and a simple illustration for each step. Stories and memories can be attached to every dish.

Families choose what stays private and what they share. Discover gathers shared recipes, food traditions and public family trees.

The design

The interface borrows from the objects it preserves: worn book covers, handwritten pages, warm paper tones and a classic serif. Family members appear as book spines on the tree.

Inside the app, things stay quiet: a light sidebar, soft cards, and one clear button for what to do next.

A walkthrough: the family tree, a recipe, guided cooking, discovery and adding a recipe from a photo.

Illustrated open recipe book with handwritten Vietnamese recipes and family photos — The tone is set by a real-feeling family cookbook.

Family tree with grandparents, parents and the user shown as recipe books — The family tree: every person is a recipe book.

Recipe page for Bun Cha with a photo of the handwritten card and its ingredients — A recipe keeps the original handwriting next to the clean version.

Guided cooking step with an illustration and a tip — Guided cooking, one step at a time.

Add recipe screen uploading a photo of a handwritten recipe for AI extraction — From a photo of a recipe card to a structured recipe.

Discover page with shared recipes, food traditions and public family trees — Discover: what other families chose to share.

Made with Love home page on a phone — On a phone.

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