Viewing profile — yqiang

I’m building FitBee, a fast, ad-free, no-nonsense calorie and macro tracker for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. The app is built with Swift and SwiftUI, with a Python backend. https…

I’m building FitBee, a fast, ad-free, and no-nonsense calorie and macro tracker for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fitbee-calorie-macro-counter/i... B…

I'm working on a calorie & macro tracker called FitBee [1]. Tracking my food has been tremendously helpful in terms of improving my health, but it's always been a PITA. The focus o…

I was overweight in college and started my weight loss journey using MyFitnessPal. Tracking calories not only helped me lose weight but also taught me a lot about nutrition and hel…

I'm working on an app in this area [1], and I've spent a lot of time exploring how to responsibly use AI for food tracking. My conclusion is that while AI is excellent for augmenti…

I'm working on an app in this area [1], and I've spent a lot of time exploring how to responsibly use AI for food tracking. My conclusion is that while AI is excellent for augmenti…

I'm working on a calorie & macro tracker called FitBee. Tracking my food has been tremendously helpful in terms of improving my health, but it's always been kind of a PITA. These p…

I've tried a bunch, and while I'm reluctant to recommend a Quicken product, Quicken Simplifi is actually working out really well for my family and I. The UI is similar to Mint & it…

I was overweight in college and started my weight loss journey using an app called MyFitnessPal. Tracking calories not only helped me lose weight but also taught me a lot about nut…

I'm building a better calorie/macro tracker called FitBee: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fitbee-calorie-counter/id64439... Tracking my food has helped me get into much better shape…

I was overweight in college and started my weight loss journey using an app called MyFitnessPal. Tracking calories not only helped me lose weight but also taught me a lot about nut…

Hey HN, I was overweight in college and started my weight loss journey using an app called MyFitnessPal. Tracking calories not only helped me lose weight but also taught me a lot a…

I work on an iOS app (FitBee) built primarily in SwiftUI. Xcode routinely takes about 5-6 gigs of ram. If I enable predictive code completion that’s another 2gb. Very glad I upgrad…

Hey HN, I've tracked my calories and macros off and on for years, and always felt that the existing solutions were bloated and clunky to use. Since food tracking is something you d…

+1 for GRDB. One of the best open source iOS SDKs I've used. The one downside I've run into vs. Core Data is that sharing a database between multiple processes (e.g., your main app…

https://fitbee.app I'm continuing to build the nutrition tracker I've always wanted myself [1] This month the focus is improving food data quality & search relevancy. I'm also star…

I'm building FitBee ( https://apple.co/4aGUw5X ) - a simple and user friendly alternative to MyFitnessPal. It's been really fun trying to figure out how to build the most frictionl…

Hey HN, I've tracked my calories and macros off and on for years, and always felt that the existing solutions were bloated and clunky to use. Since food tracking is something you d…

Craft - it's a nice note taking app with great sync. I use it on my Mac and iPhone daily. Fork - one of the better git GUIs. Rectangle - open source app to manage window layouts