Calorie

Private and decentralized calorie counter app

4 followers

Private and decentralized calorie counter app

4 followers

The fastest and most useful way to lose weight is to count the calories you consume. This is the basic principle are designed to help you lose weight. Calorie app helps you track your weight and the amount of calories you consume daily.

Launch tags:Health & Fitness•Productivity•Tech

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Never heard of blockstack. What's the benefit of storing this on the blockchain? As a tracker goes, this is probably too basic when you consider all the other options out there. Need to track macros at a minimum.

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6yr ago

@rossdcurrie @khoa_nguyen15 But you didn't answer, *why* for calculating calories you need blockchain?

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6yr ago

I would love to start using it, but as you know - calorie counting sucks... it takes effort and will to count everything. The more it can be automated the better. The thing that is probably dealbreaker in this space is the database of foods and their nutrition stats. Any plans to build and implement that? P.S. I think this has immense potential, as all calorie counting apps are full of ads and they sell your data...

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6yr ago

@khoa_nguyen15 Hey, a private calorie counter is my dream, honestly! However it will take me 3-4 times more time to use it then fatsecret or myfitnesspal. Losing so much time is not an option to be honest. While I'm writing, I have an idea - if you are able to import my stuff from a popular fitness tracker, I would hop in as most of the foods I track are already added.

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6yr ago

@khoa_nguyen15 Switched from Myfitnesspal to Fatsecret because the latter Privacy Policy seemed not that evil.

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6yr ago

there is one thing about calories which a lot of people miss in their weight loss battle. WHERE the calories come from (fat, protein or carbs) is equally important to the AMOUNT of calories. may I suggest to have a feature where you can mark the source of calories and see the daily breakdown for example? (The acceptable macronutrient distribution ranges (AMDR) are 45–65% of your daily calories from carbs, 20–35% from fats and 10–35% from protein.)

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6yr ago

As other has pointed out: Except for the tech, this does not offer any competitive advantages. Sure, you might win the odd privacy minded user, but you won't win the masses. Is there other UX benefits of using blockstack (I have no idea, just thinking out loud)? And why don't you kickstart an (much needed) autofilling option by scraping one or more competitors? :P

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6yr ago

@khangtd, congrats on the launch 💯 How is this different from the existing calorie counter apps?

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6yr ago

@khangtd @basheerak What other app is as simple and straightfoward, without any clutter. This is the app I'd build if I were to build a calorie counter app. It's perfect.

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6yr ago