Why would a weight loss app for men be different from one for women?
Typically men want to get rid of their boobs. Women don’t.
AFAIK it's impossible to target where you want your weight loss, so this should be irrelevant.
Show HN: Lyle – An AI-Powered Weight Loss App for Men
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Re: Show HN: Lyle – An AI-Powered Weight Loss App for Men
#52Congratulations on launching!
Re: Show HN: Lyle – An AI-Powered Weight Loss App for Men
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks for asking. When it comes to leading brands or apps within the weight loss space they are all heavily geared towards women. Think of the top 3 brands, weight watchers, Nutrisystem, Jenny Craig. With apps you got the same problem or you pretty much faced with just trackers. So, just from a branding play alone something needs to exist that men feel comfortable using while receiving guidance. I don't know any guy…
What app are you talking about that is geared towards women? Have you not heard of My Fitness Pal? Did it not occur to you that you’re losing out on a huge market that also needs a no-fuss way to lose weight? Women aren’t stupid. You don’t need to make things pink to sell to women. You don’t need to exclude women entirely to appeal to men.
This is not a soapbox to stand on. They made an app, it works and people like it. Leave it at that, not everything has to be politicized.
Re: Show HN: Lyle – An AI-Powered Weight Loss App for Men
#54> “How did you hear about me?” Hacker News > “I don’t understand that. I’m getting on the subway - give me an hour!” While paraphrased, the above conversation is essentially the extent of my conversation with Lyle. I would really recommend removing dialogue from the bot that makes it seem like a real person. I know your app didn’t just get on the subway.
A conversation like that would turn me off using this
Re: Show HN: Lyle – An AI-Powered Weight Loss App for Men
#55In the screenshots I see "Protein:xxg", and series of letters for the other macros. On another I see a picture of salmon and is says "A easy almon". On another I see "Eggs beaten with a dash a water".
So overall, that's pretty shocking and for me a huge red flag about the quality of this.
Re: Show HN: Lyle – An AI-Powered Weight Loss App for Men
#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hey, thanks for trying it out! yeah, we asked a few questions that require you to rate things from 1-10 so in order for Lyle to differentiate we asked that you add "glasses" at the end of your answer. but we need to work on making that flow clearer. Thanks again for trying it out.
I ran into the same issue. If you haven't, I'd check out some other popular chat bots for their UX. Ex.: Woebot https://www.facebook.com/drwoebot/ Having buttons for things like "continue", "go on" or "not right now" is something I took for granted. No need to have me type it if there's a limited set of acceptable responses.
Thanks for checking us out. We haven't come across these guys before. We played around with having buttons or going with NLP to make it more realistic. Perhaps we should have both, thanks for the feedback!
Re: Show HN: Lyle – An AI-Powered Weight Loss App for Men
#57I'd love to test your app and approach but alas I am a woman and my boyfriend is on Android. I lift weights, I do HIIT cardio, I do yoga, I will try a lot of physical activites. I've also tracked calories, something I hate doing and I just can't bring myself to do this at the moment. I will never do Jenny Craig or Weight Watchers bullshit. Love to see a different means of enabling greater fitness.
You've automatically excluded me from your accepted audience. So sucks to be you? Or does it suck to be me? Or maybe we are eating the suck because you don't get my money, and I might miss out on an effective solution for health improvement.
Oh well...
Re: Show HN: Lyle – An AI-Powered Weight Loss App for Men
#58May I ask why you chose Lyle as the name?