Show HN: Trying to eat better? I built a nutrional assistant

17•dammsaturn•7mo ago

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.

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bluetidepro•7mo ago

Seems 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•7mo ago

Is it a cool idea, though, to turn over your health to a system that's both nondeterministic and opaque?

freilanzer•7mo ago

I don't see a problem with a recipe generator?

bluetidepro•7mo ago

Depends 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•7mo ago

Very True, you're not required to provide your personal info to use the software

dammsaturn•7mo ago

Heyy, thanks alot you can visit 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•7mo ago

The "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•7mo ago

AI_ERROR Failed to generate content. Please try again.

dammsaturn•7mo ago

My server got overloaded, but it's back up now. you can try again

Disposal8433•7mo ago

"Failed to generate content. Please try again." when I ask a question.

dammsaturn•7mo ago

My server got overloaded but you can try again now.

sometimes_all•7mo ago

I 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•7mo ago

Exactly 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•7mo ago

I 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•7mo ago

Pretty sure its just Hug of Death

dammsaturn•7mo ago

It works now, you can try again.

dammsaturn•7mo ago

You 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•7mo ago

Not sure how to use this. May be a video might be helpful. Thanks!

dammsaturn•7mo ago

working on putting out a demo video, would be out soon.

crab_galaxy•7mo ago

I’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•7mo ago

A 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•7mo ago

It could also help to spell nutrition correctly.

dammsaturn•7mo ago

That would be limiting the products potential

dammsaturn•7mo ago

https://www.eko-bazaar.com/about this page gives some insight on how you could use it

freilanzer•7mo 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•7mo ago

That's part of the caloric intake reduction strategy... Can't eat the ingredients you can't read in the recipe.

dammsaturn•7mo ago

haha

dammsaturn•7mo ago

I really appreciate this feedback and would work on fixing this

coffeecoders•7mo ago

Lately 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/1hnjbm...

[2] eatthismuch.com

dammsaturn•7mo ago

Thanks for this

Tepix•7mo ago

Very 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•7mo ago

Thanks for spotting the typo, server got overloaded but its back up now, you can try again

puttycat•7mo ago

If 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

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.02356

[3] https://github.com/0xnurl/gpts-cant-count

antisthenes•7mo ago

The 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•7mo ago

Hmm, thank you for this feedback, definitely going to work on a feature to fix this.

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