GatorBites is a social media platform enhancing culinary skills and fostering social connections among college students. It integrates recipe sharing, social networking, and cooking contests.

• Personalized recipe suggestions
• Weekly culinary challenges
• Social media interactions

• Frontend: React
• Backend: Golang, Flask
• Hosting: AWS
• Gator-Chef (LLM): Flask-based language model for recipe generation

Gator-Chef uses a Flask app with a language model to generate recipes. It includes CORS for cross-origin requests, CSRF protection, and uses LangChain for language model integration. The LLM, LlamaCpp, is configured for optimized performance.

Guided by Professor Benjamin Lok, ByteSize Chefs developed GatorBites with user experience design principles, focusing on healthier eating habits and social interaction among students.

Inspired by studies on college students' dietary habits and social relationships, GatorBites promotes healthier dietary practices and fosters social connections.

The team gained insights into user-centered design, cloud computing, and web development, integrating social networking, cooking competitions, and recipe sharing.

Thanks to Professor Benjamin Lok and user research participants.

This project is licensed under the MIT License.