Consumer · AI creative + commerce
Heritage Recipe
Turn a handwritten family recipe into a print-ready keepsake.
- Role
- Product, design & engineering
- Type
- Consumer app + commerce
- Status
- In launch
- Live at
- heritagerecipe.ca
The friction
The handwritten recipe card in a parent’s kitchen is fading, stained, and one spill or one loss away from gone. Professional hand-illustration runs $75–130 and takes weeks; DIY templates look generic. There’s no fast, affordable way to turn a messy card — in any language — into something frame-worthy and accurate.
Where AI helps
AI does three jobs a person can’t do quickly: it reads the handwriting in any language (with optional translation), generates the designed keepsake in your chosen style, and runs a quality-control pass that scores text accuracy and auto-fixes it to 90%+ before you ever approve. The messy-input problem is exactly what AI is good at — and a human still signs off.
Who it helps — Families preserving heirloom recipes — especially gift-givers honoring a parent or grandparent. Direct-to-consumer.
What I built
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The full loop
Photo → AI extract → editable review → style → generate → QC score → approve → download, print, or share.
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Real output
8 design styles, resolution up to 4K, high-res PDF and PNG.
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Real commerce
Stripe checkout, Gelato print-on-demand fulfillment, and a shareable recipe page + public “Recipe Box.”
Proof