behzodhalil

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by behzodhalil 2mo ago
Maybe the idea doesn't work. Maybe no one has executed it well enough yet.
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by behzodhalil 2mo ago
Crowded means unsolved, not worthless
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by behzodhalil 2mo ago
you're right that it's never accurate. neither are we though - people under-report their own intake by 20–40% in actual studies. the photo just has to beat "didn't log anything", and it does.
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by behzodhalil 2mo ago
Fair prior. That's exactly why every number is editable - I treat the model as a quick draft, not a source of truth.
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by behzodhalil 2mo ago
Fair - I hate touching the phone between sets too. Right now the app keeps it minimal: photo for meals, quick-tap for workouts. But "zero effort while exercising" is the direction. What would work best for you - logging the whole
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by behzodhalil 2mo ago
Ha, that one's on me, not the AI - I made it in Canva myself. Apparently I vibecode by hand too.
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by behzodhalil 2mo ago
Yeah, this is exactly the part I distrusted in other apps too. So I didn't try to fake it. The model guesses the portion, then you adjust the grams with a slider and the macros rescale live - same "you can always correct it"
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by behzodhalil 2mo ago
No OCR actually - just a vision model doing the recognition, one prompt, JSON out (Qwen3.6-27B on Groq). I didn't chase some clever accuracy trick, because like you said, a photo alone can only get you so far. The design bet was differ
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by behzodhalil 2mo ago
Hi, HN I kept giving up on calorie tracking because trying in every meal was too much work. So I tried building something where I just take a photo and it estimates what’s on the plate. It’s honestly not perfect - it does well with simpl
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Show HN: An app that logs your meal's calories from a photo(btrapp.com)
11 points by behzodhalil 2mo ago|19 comments