MenU
MenU: Solving Dietary Friction
The Friction
Managing weekly meal plans often involves manual overhead, scattered lists, and repetitive decision-making. I found myself spending too much time calculating dietary requirements and organizing shopping lists.
MenU is a full-stack platform designed to automate this process. It takes small, recurring dietary problems and turns them into a simple, usable system with a clean backend architecture.
The System
A centralized platform where I can generate, manage, and view menus with minimal friction. By offloading the "decision logic" to a structured system, I reclaimed time for deeper exploration.
Technical Internals
The system uses a clean architecture to ensure the core logic remains independent of external frameworks.
- Backend: Node.js/Express with a modular router structure.
- Frontend: Responsive React components focused on high interaction efficiency.
- Intelligence: Uses the Gemini API to suggest diverse meal combinations based on historical preferences.