I'm not an AI researcher. I'm a backend developer with 16 years of Laravel and PHP experience who...
Developer shipped Simple Plate (recipe AI, GPT-4o-mini) on App Store and Google Play in ~one month. OpenAI integration was trivial (one day); 80% of real work is prompt engineering; actual complexity is non-AI (App Store rejections, timezone handling, subscription management).
I'm not an AI researcher. I'm a backend developer with 16 years of Laravel and PHP experience who wanted to build something with AI.
So I did what made sense — I built a real app.
The idea
Simple Plate is an AI recipe generator. Tell it what ingredients you have, your dietary preferences and cuisine mood, and it generates three recipe ideas for you. Simple problem. Simple solution.
What I didn't expect was how much I'd learn about working with AI APIs by actually shipping something real.
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