Dinnr
A recipe book for everywhere you cook — designed and built with AI, never touching Figma.
- Role
- AI design & development · Claude Code Max
- Year
- 2026 · ~2 weeks
- App Store
- App Store
Dinnr is a recipe app for people who collect recipes the way other people collect books — from YouTube, TikTok, websites, photographs, the back of a cookbook page. Paste a link or snap a photo and it becomes a structured recipe; plan a week of meals in seconds; then a distraction-free Cooking Mode dims everything but the step you're on. Same library across Mac, iPad, and iPhone.
I built it to replace the tangle of bookmarks and screenshots I actually cook from. But Dinnr was just as much an experiment: how far can AI take a product when the designer never opens Figma?
“This app is exactly what I’ve been looking for! Easy to input recipes– I can just add in a link from YouTube or a recipe website and it will parse out the ingredients and instructions, along with helpful things like cooking times, photo of meal, etc. I also have lots of recipes in word documents– I just screenshotted those and was able to upload my own recipes through the upload image function, and similarly, it parsed out ingredients and instructions. I also love the light AI feature. This is a piece that was missing in other applications. I like asking it to plan out which meal for the day or week overall depending on what I need (quick and easy, specific cuisine, etc) and it will provide me a list that fit that criteria , which eliminates decision making fatigue. I also love that it’s free and I can view my recipe, meal plan, and the AI assistant on my phone or computer. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND this app for anyone!”
Designed with AI, no Figma
Every screen was designed directly in code with Claude Code Max — no mockups, no design tool, no handoff. I worked in the medium the product ships in, treating prompts and live preview as the design surface. It was a deliberate test of my AI design instincts: could I hold taste, hierarchy, and craft while moving at the speed of generation?
The whole thing came together in about two weeks. Production-grade from the start — Vercel, Supabase, Sentry, and PostHog behind it, and a real App Store release at the end.
