Instameals

I saved hundreds of cooking reels and cooked almost none of them. The recipe was trapped inside a 30 second video. Meanwhile, every meal plan app kept serving me AI-generated meals I did not want. The innovation I actually craved was already on my Instagram feed; I just needed it in my own plan. And when my cook asked what to make, I wanted an answer, not a scroll.

1. 01

   Extraction, not generation. An API pulls the reel's caption and audio. The audio gets transcribed. Most recipe detail lives in one or the other, and they disagree constantly.

2. 02

   An AI layer cleans it up. The raw caption plus transcript go through an AI pass that reconciles them into one structured card: ingredients, steps, timings, macros. That layer is the app.

3. 03

   Plans from your saves, not from a model. The daily meal plan is woven from recipes you chose to save. The AI arranges; it does not invent. That is the whole difference from the meal apps I abandoned.

4. 04

   Settings as a sentence. No sliders, no macro spreadsheets. You type what you want, like the line below, and the plan bends around it.

"I want 100g of protein each day."

Build the pipeline for the disagreement case. Captions lie, audio mumbles, and some reels never show text at all. The product is only as good as the reconciliation pass, so I spent my time there and let Claude Code write the plumbing around it.