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Souva turns the ingredients you already have into recipes. Snap a photo of your fridge, scan a barcode, or type them in, and Souva helps you find recipes you can make right now, or, if your ingredients form a particularly niche combo, it invents brand new ones with AI. You can also import any recipe from a URL. Free, no account, works offline. Built for the "full fridge, no idea what to make" problem and for wasting less food instead of shopping for one more recipe.
Hey Product Hunt, my name is Ryan, and I built Souva. 👋
The idea came to me when I looked back at a problem my mom and I faced growing up: we'd open a full fridge and a full pantry looking to cook something, and have absolutely no idea what to make. Almost every recipe app out today assumes you'll go buy a list of ingredients to make recipes, but we didn't have the time or the space to buy niche things that we'd only ever use once.
Souva works with what you already have: 🥫 Add your ingredients (photo scan them, scan a barcode, or type them in) and Souva finds recipes you can make with what you have right now. 🤖 If you're like me and always have a mix of niche ingredients, SouvAI will invent new recipes for you. 🔗 You can also import any recipe from a URL to save it in a safe place.
Souva is free, doesn't require an account, and works offline. I run ads to cover hosting + AI costs, but there are no subscriptions and no paywall.
I'd appreciate any feedback you have, and I am happy to answer any questions too!
the no-account, works-offline design is the right call for something you open at 6pm hungry and annoyed. question about the flip side of no-account though: saved recipes and anything imported from a URL, are those stored only on-device, and if so is there any export or backup path if someone loses their phone or switches to a new one? seems like the tradeoff of skipping accounts is exactly that kind of loss.
How well does the AI actually handle super random ingredient combos, like the half jar of olives and leftover rotisserie chicken situation? Curious if it leans on real recipe logic or just makes something edible.
How does the AI handle recipes when the photo is a bit blurry or partly hidden behind leftovers, and is the offline mode just stored recipes or does the new-recipe generation work without internet too?
Finally something that actually helps when the fridge is full but motivation is zero. Snapped a photo of some sad vegetables and got a solid curry suggestion instead of another sad omelette.
Love that you can throw in a barcode or just type ingredients without making an account. The no-friction approach to something as daily as "what's for dinner" is exactly the kind of design choice that makes a tool actually get used.
How well does the AI handle weird leftover combos, like half a jar of olives and some random wilting herbs, and does the recipe it invents actually taste decent or just technically edible?
How does the AI actually decide when an ingredient combo is niche enough to invent something versus pulling from an existing recipe?
The barcode scan option is such a smart touch, especially for those random pantry items where you'd never think to type out the full name. Love that there's no signup friction either, just open and start cooking.
Scanned my fridge photo and it actually pulled out the half-bag of lentils and sad celery I'd forgotten about. The AI-generated recipe for my weird leftover combo was genuinely usable, not just a gimmick.
About Souva on Product Hunt
“Cook with the ingredients you already have”
Souva was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 8 upvotes and 19 comments, placing #54 on the daily leaderboard. Souva turns the ingredients you already have into recipes. Snap a photo of your fridge, scan a barcode, or type them in, and Souva helps you find recipes you can make right now, or, if your ingredients form a particularly niche combo, it invents brand new ones with AI. You can also import any recipe from a URL. Free, no account, works offline. Built for the "full fridge, no idea what to make" problem and for wasting less food instead of shopping for one more recipe.
Souva was featured in Cooking (9k followers), Artificial Intelligence (473.7k followers) and Food & Drink (2.8k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 112.1k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Souva?
Souva was hunted by Ryan Jensen. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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Ryan Jensen
Hey Product Hunt, my name is Ryan, and I built Souva. 👋
The idea came to me when I looked back at a problem my mom and I faced growing up: we'd open a full fridge and a full pantry looking to cook something, and have absolutely no idea what to make. Almost every recipe app out today assumes you'll go buy a list of ingredients to make recipes, but we didn't have the time or the space to buy niche things that we'd only ever use once.
Souva works with what you already have:
🥫 Add your ingredients (photo scan them, scan a barcode, or type them in) and Souva finds recipes you can make with what you have right now.
🤖 If you're like me and always have a mix of niche ingredients, SouvAI will invent new recipes for you.
🔗 You can also import any recipe from a URL to save it in a safe place.
Souva is free, doesn't require an account, and works offline. I run ads to cover hosting + AI costs, but there are no subscriptions and no paywall.
I'd appreciate any feedback you have, and I am happy to answer any questions too!