Originally posted on LinkedIn on June 28, 2026
And the vibecoding train chugs along…
On Wednesday I helped my sister back up her cloud storage, and she mentioned that she also wanted to organize her recipes. I suspected this was exactly the kind of small personal admin project AI could handle well, so today I took a closer look.
I started with my own recipes as a test case: 233 recipes on my laptop in a chaotic mix of PDFs, Word documents, text files, photos and scans of paper recipes.
I told Claude Code, using Opus 4.8, what I wanted: a simple responsive app that would let me search my recipe collection by keyword, filter by things like ingredients, course and cuisine, and rate recipes from 1 to 5 stars, with the option to add notes.
Claude first extracted all the text from the various file types and converted everything into a clean format the app could use. That took a few hours.
Then it built the actual app in about 15 minutes.
The surprising part: it looked almost exactly like what I had envisioned. I know this because I had first made a pencil sketch to organize my own thoughts, but I hadn’t shown Claude the sketch. When the app was done, it was eerily close to what I had drawn.
After two small follow-up prompts, my online recipe library was finished.
You can check it out here, in Dutch:
https://onlinecaveman.com/rest/recepten/
The whole thing took one morning.
The speed at which you can now build useful little apps for your own life, without writing code yourself, still does not cease to amaze me.
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