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behzodhalil

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About behzodhalil

Builder | Software Engineer

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    Comment #49119662

    Maybe the idea doesn't work. Maybe no one has executed it well enough yet.

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    Comment #49112687

    Crowded means unsolved, not worthless

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    Comment #49112640

    you're right that it's never accurate. neither are we though - people under-report their own intake by 20–40% in actual studies. the photo just has to beat "didn't log anything", a…

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    Comment #49112325

    Fair prior. That's exactly why every number is editable - I treat the model as a quick draft, not a source of truth.

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    Comment #49112288

    Fair - I hate touching the phone between sets too. Right now the app keeps it minimal: photo for meals, quick-tap for workouts. But "zero effort while exercising" is the direction.…

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    Comment #49112241

    Ha, that one's on me, not the AI - I made it in Canva myself. Apparently I vibecode by hand too.

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    Comment #49107748

    Yeah, this is exactly the part I distrusted in other apps too. So I didn't try to fake it. The model guesses the portion, then you adjust the grams with a slider and the macros res…

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    Comment #49107726

    No OCR actually - just a vision model doing the recognition, one prompt, JSON out (Qwen3.6-27B on Groq). I didn't chase some clever accuracy trick, because like you said, a photo a…

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    Comment #49106999

    Hi, HN I kept giving up on calorie tracking because trying in every meal was too much work. So I tried building something where I just take a photo and it estimates what’s on the p…

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