The Eatery: Massive Health Experiment #01

https://eatery.massivehealth.com/

by jcsalterego • 15 years ago

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Fliko• 15 years ago

This is cool, I want it on Android though! Is it just friends that give you an opinion on your food, or can people just randomly (and anonymously) rate food, kind've like hot or not?

threejay• 15 years ago

From what I can tell the rating is random & anonymous. I took a picture of breakfast, don't have any friends using the app, and had 48 votes within a few hours. The app is really slick...

tzs• 15 years ago

They could be using Amazon's Mechanical Turk. That's what previous apps in the "give me information from a photo of my food" space have done.

TruthElixirX• 15 years ago

What nutritional guide lines are they following though? FDA recommended?

pamelafox• 15 years ago

Interesting; I'm working on (and using myself) a similar approach to tracking eating habits: http://www.everyday.io/tour

Like theirs, there's no calorie counting in my app. Instead, you set goals like "no sugar", "no dairy" and use colored sliders at the end of the day to say how well you did with that goal. You can also snap photos of your food using the mobile app (Phonegap), but you don't have to - many people just write a list.

You can use my app alone, but you can also have buddies to share your updates with (and I highly encourage that, it makes it a lot more fun and makes you more accountable). When you're doing well (e.g. no sugar for 3 days), you can high five eachother, and if you haven't logged in a while, you can nudge.

It's cool to see more apps taking a new approach to improving eating habits... it's a good thing for the world. :-)

thesash• 15 years ago

The interface on the app is really really beautiful, I'm between meals so haven't tried out the snapping feature, but just wasted like 30 min rating other people's dishes. The fit or fat interaction design is gorgeous.

The Eatery: Massive Health Experiment #01

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