Pantrybridge

This is a submission for Weekend Challenge: Generosity Edition I wanted to build something for this challenge that didn't just talk about generosity but actually meant something, and felt beneficial. This tool can make it easier to go from "I have food to donate" to "I'm donating food". You take a picture of your pantry shelf, Gemini figures out what's actually in it, and the app turns that into a recipe for whoever receives it, a handwritten-style note of kindness, a real way to find a food bank near you, and a printable manifest to hand over at drop-off. What I Built PantryBridge is a small AI-powered toolkit for food donation. The flow is: 1. Scan your pantry. Upload a photo (or pick one of three one-click sample hauls if you don't have a pantry photo handy). Gemini does multimodal image analysis and returns a structured inventory: item names, categories, estimated quantities, dietary tags, urgency, and packaging condition. ( Sorry, GIPHY messed up my gif ) 2. Review the inventory. Everything shows up in a clean table with donation-readiness stats and a volunteer tip generated specifically for that haul. (If you need to, you can delete or add items!) 3. Find a real drop-off location. Enter your zip code and the app confirms your city/state (via a real geocoding lookup) and links you straight to Feeding America's actual food bank locator, so you're finding a real place to donate, not a mock one. 4. Get a recipe and a kindness note. Gemini writes a short recipe using mostly what you're donating, plus a genuinely warm, non-patronizing note to include with the box. 5. Print a donation manifest. A little printable card with the itemized contents and a mock barcode/QR for quick intake logging, with confetti when you pledge or print. Demo Try the Live App If you'd rather run it yourself: git clone https://github.com/780s/pantrybridge.git cd pantrybridge npm install npm run dev Drop a GEMINI_API_KEY into .env.local to hit the real Gemini API. Without one, every route qui