{
  "id": 16512772,
  "title": "Fridge to List: Snap Your Fridge, Get a Grocery List (Gemma 3 + Ollama, All Local)",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/25/fridge-to-list-snap-your-fridge-get-a-grocery-list-gemma-3-ollama-all",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-25T19:27:32.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/ansh_raj2448/fridge-to-list-snap-your-fridge-get-a-grocery-list-gemma-3-ollama-all-local-e08"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "This submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge focuses on a tool called \"Fridge to List\" that turns photos of your fridge into a grocery list. You can upload one to four photos (shelves, door, pantry) using the app, which then generates a list of items it can see with confidence levels. Any items it can't clearly identify are placed in a \"could not tell\" list. The user's usual staples are compared to the items seen in the photos to create an editable checklist that can be copied or downloaded as a text file. The app is built using Gemma 3, an open-weight vision model served by Ollama on a MacBook Air, and is designed to be privacy-focused, cost-effective, offline, and customizable. While the model's limited capacity may lead to incomplete lists, the open-source nature allows for further improvements and customization.",
  "summary": "This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady What I Built Fridge to List turns photos of your fridge into a grocery list, so you don't have to stand there with the door open writing things down. You upload one to four photos (shelves, door, pantry). A local vision model looks at them and reports only what it can actually see, with a confidence level…",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}