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Ah that's a good idea, should add that. Also I appreciate your phrasing of "you guys" when, as a solo developer, if someone thinks your efforts are the product of a larger team, it…

Thank you for your kind words and feedback. The search should be better now, and is much better in-app with additional local caching. I can assure you that you are not overthinking…

Almost every protein that I consume is weighed raw for ease in logging. One reason is if you are cooking a dish with e.g. bacon as an ingredient, you may not be able or want to sep…

Thank you for your questions and feedback. > When something doesn't have a reference listed, and just says "sourced from a publicly available first-party datasource", what does tha…

I've explained why OFF is not an adequate source in and of itself for a food logging app elsewhere in the thread. If it were usable in and of itself, I wouldn't have had anything t…

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The licensing terms are identical to similar projects including OpenFoodFacts (which also has an app) and OpenStreetMap, see: https://wiki.openfoodfacts.org/ODBL_License You may di…

That's what OpenNutrition does. However, in many cases, there is no publicly accessible "non-AI data" source to refer to. OpenNutrition tries to bridge the gap, using the public da…

There's an in-depth review of the reasoning for undertaking this project in general and this approach in particular in the Methodology/About section below, see "Current State of Nu…

Pretty standard Next app on Vercel. Some pre-fetching. Food pages are cached post-generation. Custom go-based search server behind a Cloudflare cache. Any other questions?

I wrote a Go-based search engine that indexes full words and prefixes for the foods and their alternate names because I was dissatisfied with how slow OpenSearch was given the very…

Thank you for your feedback. > If I can join the endless queue of feature requests, the ability to scale the portion size and update the nutrition facts would be great This is all …

OpenNutrition uses many of the same open datasources included there, including USDA SR, CNF, AUSNUT, etc. The other datasources are licensed and not open, and I do not use those so…

Your other comment is too deep in the thread for me to reply, but just wanted to say I appreciate you checking out the project and commenting, and appreciate the many years of effo…

Thank you very much for your feedback. Building a great product that did not have variable usage costs that allowed for a generous free tier was my primary motivation for undertaki…

Thank you for the feedback. Have you asked one of the LLMs used to tell you about the choline content of a food, even ungrounded? They are surprisingly good at reasoning about what…

Thank you for your feedback. This would be a great dataset to include -- my next priority is the Japanese government dataset which would expand food coverage for more traditional A…

Would you mind posting/messaging me in some way (links in bio) what you expected it to show? It looks like for unsweetened oat milk: https://www.opennutrition.app/search/unsweetene…

Thank you! The images are created via Flux (Schnell, due to cost). An LLM (currently Gemini Flash) creates the prompt, Flux generates the images, a rembg lambda that I open-sourced…

Which country would you like it available in?

Should be back up now, I didn't scale up quickly enough for the traffic. My apologies and thank you for the report.

The idea of including that requirement in the license is a good idea and I had not considered it, but I will -- frankly my motivations have been more on the citation side of things…

Thank you :)

Both products show a 1 cup (41g) and 160 calorie serving size to me? OpenNutrition: https://www.opennutrition.app/search/honey-bunches-of-oats-h... Via Manufacturer: https://www.ho…

I envisioned many lines of inquiry from HN but the idea that a compressed TSV of nutritional data is not a "dataset" (definition: a collection of related sets of information that i…