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Show HN: Trying to eat better? I built a nutrional assistant
I spent 3 years building an e-commerce side project to order groceries online, which later pivoted in the last 6 months to a complete Ai nutrional assitant, that can personalize meal plans, recipes, meal suggestions, and even scrape the internet for where to purchase grocery items in your chat.
- antisthenes 1y agoThe problem with nutrition isn't the lack of a middleman feeding you (pun intended) information about what you should be eating. It's finding the willpower to keep it consistent and not cheat.
- dammsaturn 1y agoHmm, thank you for this feedback, definitely going to work on a feature to fix this.
- bluetidepro 1y agoSeems like a cool idea at a very high level, but I feel like the homepage needs a lot more context than what it has. How it works, what it does, best way to use it, etc. Also, just a heads up that the chat window is a bit broken on mobile. It has some weird scroll hijacking that breaks chats.
- add-sub-mul-div 1y agoIs it a cool idea, though, to turn over your health to a system that's both nondeterministic and opaque?
- freilanzer 1y agoI don't see a problem with a recipe generator?
- bluetidepro 1y agoDepends how it’s actually used. Again, without more context on the home page it’s hard tell. There is a chance you can use it in a way where you can feed it vague non identifying info and still get use from it.
- dammsaturn 1y agoVery True, you're not required to provide your personal info to use the software
- dammsaturn 1y agoHeyy, thanks alot you can visit https://www.eko-bazaar.com/about https://www.eko-bazaar.com/about to know more or get some inspos on how to use it, and thanks for highlighting the chat window, and scroll bug, would work on fixing that.
- m0d0nne11 1y agoThe "nutrutional" typo on the main page is only the first of several, so I'm wondering if this is some kind of spoof/joke/prank? And suggesting to us that we "Upgrage plan to enable agent shopping" is just a huge Nope, of course...
- upheaval7276 1y agoAI_ERROR Failed to generate content. Please try again.
- dammsaturn 1y agoMy server got overloaded, but it's back up now. you can try again
- Disposal8433 1y ago"Failed to generate content. Please try again." when I ask a question.
- dammsaturn 1y agoMy server got overloaded but you can try again now.
- sometimes_all 1y agoI keep seeing "Failed to generate content. Please try again.". It's a bit difficult for me to know what sort of questions I can ask this assistant. Maybe a few examples might help?
- lnsru 1y agoExactly my experience. On other hand eating better does not need many assistants. The less processed food is simply better. No sugar, adequate portion size, enough water.
- dammsaturn 1y agoI apologize for that, since it was a side project, alot of resources were basically on Free tier and it got overloaded by the number of request which i did not honestly expect.
- ramon156 1y agoPretty sure its just Hug of Death
- dammsaturn 1y agoIt works now, you can try again.
- dammsaturn 1y agoYou can have it create a meal plan for you, list out food recipes for a particular dish, and basically just test your imagination with, you can also ask it how to make a particular dish and suggest where to purchase ingredients for it, it's still in a beta phase so your feedback would be used to make improvements.
- gritlin 1y agoNot sure how to use this. May be a video might be helpful. Thanks!
- dammsaturn 1y agoworking on putting out a demo video, would be out soon.
- crab_galaxy 1y agoI’m interested based on the title but I have no idea how to use it. I think a placeholder prompt or basic instruction would go a long way, otherwise it just looks like a chatGPT clone
- nkozyra 1y agoA chat interface seems like the wrong approach for something like this. This feels like an guided agent interface, the way we interact with nutrionists or personal trainers. If you need help with these things, a blank page is a bad way to start.
- spacemadness 1y agoIt could also help to spell nutrition correctly.
- dammsaturn 1y agoThat would be limiting the products potential
- dammsaturn 1y agohttps://www.eko-bazaar.com/about https://www.eko-bazaar.com/about this page gives some insight on how you could use it
- freilanzer 1y ago> "BAZ-1, your nutrutional AI assistant" Nutritional. I created a recipe but I cannot scroll up (in Firefox) since it immediately skips back to the bottom, so I can't read all of it. Interesting idea though! I'll try it. Edit: the shopping part takes a while, then it works.
- rkomorn 1y agoThat's part of the caloric intake reduction strategy... Can't eat the ingredients you can't read in the recipe.
- dammsaturn 1y agohaha
- dammsaturn 1y agoI really appreciate this feedback and would work on fixing this
- coffeecoders 1y agoLately I have been using ChatGPT for my meal planning. There are countless [1] threads on reddit on how to tailor this to your preference. I went through a cut phase with it and it worked out great. I prefer it better than the popular one eatthismuch[2]. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPTPromptGenius/comments/1hnjbmd/the_ultimate_meal_planning_and_grocery_list/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPTPromptGenius/comments/1hnjbm... [2] eatthismuch.com
- dammsaturn 1y agoThanks for this
- Tepix 1y agoVery 1st impression: There are currently typos both on the starting page: "nutrutional" and in the title and the body of the post "nutrional". 2nd impression: I entered a request and got an error message. I guess your server is overloaded.
- dammsaturn 1y agoThanks for spotting the typo, server got overloaded but its back up now, you can try again
- puttycat 1y agoIf LLMs can't even do basic arithmetic [1,2,3], why should anyone trust them with what they put in their mouths? [1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.21272 https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.21272 [2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.02356 https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.02356 [3] https://github.com/0xnurl/gpts-cant-count https://github.com/0xnurl/gpts-cant-count
- AStonesThrow 1y ago[dead]