Building CaloAI taught me a lot about what developers actually need vs what I assumed they'd need. Curious if you're building a fitness or nutrition app, what's the one thing that would make integrating a food recognition API an instant yes for you?

AI models kept returning macros that didn't add up mathematically. Protein 4 + Carbs 4 + Fat 9 would never equal the reported calories. I ended up building a double-layer verification guardrail that forces every response to be internally consistent before it's served. Small detail but the kind of thing that breaks user trust silently if you ignore it.

A common problem when building nutrition apps users take photos in-app, but the image isn't publicly accessible. CaloAI accepts Base64 strings directly, so you can encode the image client-side and send it without needing a storage bucket or signed URLs at all.