Our App 'MyGusto'

Functionality

MyGusto recommends personalized Migusto recipes to you, based on what you like and what you don’t like. The app shows you new recipes and you can tell the app if you like it by swiping right or dislike it by swiping left.

Swiping

The app presents one recipe after another which can be swiped left by the user to dislike the recipe or right to like it. To get more information of a presented recipe, one can click on it to see more information. The recommended recipes will be more personalized, the more recipes the user likes or dislikes.

MyRecipes

In the panel MyRecipes the user can see his liked recipes and swpie right if he decides to cook it. He can choose more than one, if he knows he will be cooking those meals in the near future. All the needed ingredients will be added to a shopping list.

Shopping List

In the shopping list all the ingredients, which need to be bought are visible including a symbol if it is currenlty discounted in Migros.

Settings

Before swiping, the user can already set some preferences by marking the allergies and choosing the importance of sustainability and budget. The users preference profil will be updated continuously in the background by swipping recipes.

How does this all work under the hood?

We propose to use a recommender system, that utilizes the likes and dislikes from other users to recommend new recipes to you. As our app is new, we have little user data to work with. Therefore, we use a second network that initially proposes you similar recipes to the ones you already liked. This allows to slowly transition to a smarter system over time.

The options with such a system are limitless: For example if there is an overstock of Bananas in Migros’s across Zurich → Migros can make Banana Recipes more popular this week.