Build your own ReciMe with Claude Code

A recipe saver from social media: save recipes from links and videos, extract ingredients and steps with AI, meal planner and more.

WeekendA working first version in a day or two

The Claude Code prompt

Build my own take on ReciMe: a recipe saver from social media. Give it an original name, logo, colours and copy, and do not use ReciMe's name, branding or assets.

Version one should have:
- Save recipes from links and videos
- Extract ingredients and steps with AI
- Meal planner
- Shopping list
- Collections

The hard part: Extracting recipes from video captions and pages. Use Claude on the page text.

How to build it:
1. Read this folder first. If it is empty, set up Next.js (App Router, TypeScript, Tailwind) with Postgres through Prisma or Supabase, and Supabase Auth or Auth.js for sign-in. Write a short PLAN.md with the data model, screens, third-party services and what you are leaving out of version one.
2. Build the core loop end to end before anything else: save recipes from links and videos, working with real data saved to the database.
3. Add the rest of the features one at a time, and seed realistic demo data so every screen looks alive.
4. Keep API keys in environment variables, and put any paid service behind a small interface with a local stub, so the app runs on a fresh machine without accounts.
5. Run it, click through every screen on desktop and mobile widths, fix what breaks, and finish with a summary of what works, what is stubbed and how to deploy it.

Paste it into Claude Code in an empty folder. It plans first, so read PLAN.md and steer before it starts building.

Version one

  • Save recipes from links and videos
  • Extract ingredients and steps with AI
  • Meal planner
  • Shopping list
  • Collections

The hard part

Extracting recipes from video captions and pages. Use Claude on the page text.

Make it yours: a niche ReciMe ignores, an original name and brand, and one feature it does badly done well.

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