elchead

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   by elchead 3y ago

   I had this database in mind too, thanks! Btw Bard has deterministic output as I learned
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   by elchead 3y ago

   Thanks for the feedback and suggestions. I can't open the images but I get the problem. Will check on that
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   by elchead 3y ago

   I see, also similar to Yuka. That can indeed work well for an established user base. I'd focus on food databases now, but reporting nutrients for items as a user is interesting for the future! I was actually surprised about the GPT cos
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   by elchead 3y ago

   I was also thinking about monetization, but was more thinking of a SaaS for consumers. Do you happen to know the grocery industry to know more about their interests for the app? I mainly see it as a way for them to place ads in the app
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   by elchead 3y ago

   That's a fair point! I can add a feature to remove items from the receipt. The option to manually add items bought earlier already exists. It's not about daily nutrition, but to understand the overall nutrition over let's say
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   by elchead 3y ago

   Sure! If you want to have a quick chat about it, shoot me an email at hi@adrianstobbe.com Happy to see how I can adjust it
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   by elchead 3y ago

   If they contain the meal name, you can do this :) Otherwise you can also manually add the meal name. I'm however not sure about the accuracy of entire meals yet
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   by elchead 3y ago

   Sorry, the traffic exceeded the API quota. You can try again now :)
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   by elchead 3y ago

   I would have thought the same until I found yuka ( https://yuka.io/en/ ) and saw that they make multi-millions per year.
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    by elchead 3y ago

    Good idea! Do you know people with this condition who would want to exchange about it?
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    by elchead 3y ago

    I was also playing with Cloud Vision API, and it was good but found the formatting not always easily usable. GPT vision API is great for general recognition
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    by elchead 3y ago

    Hey, you can reach me at hi@adrianstobbe.com :)
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    by elchead 3y ago

    Good point! What would be most valuable to you from this data? Recipe suggestions could be one thing, but I guess most people build their shopping list from recipes. Re-ordering is probably something that retailers will try to make easy.
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    Show HN: Nutrient insights through your grocery receipts(nutri.adrianstobbe.com)

    162 points by elchead 3y ago|81 comments