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Otherwise, it's pretty rad. I like it a lot!
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How long has the service been around for, and how did you get traction? You have quite a lot of Twitter and Facebook followers/fans.
It started out as Swole.me ( http://www.swole.me ) a little over two years ago, and then I rebranded it once the algorithm was good enough to suggest things a normal, well adjusted person might eat (as opposed to a meal of 2 tbsp peanut butter + 1 chicken breast). My guess is that the idea and execution was novel enough to get it a decent amount of attention.
I found your site and it was really really awesome back then, I was impressed! I'm glad to see you're still working on it. I think you're hitting on something really valuable here.
Thank you for your work and good luck with it moving forward.
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Idk, portion size seems fairly explicit in my post. This picture sums up nicely what a french meal would look like: http://i.imgur.com/5XRulJK.png With the appetizer plate topmost, dessert in the middle, main course at the bottom of the picture. It's also common for hungry/active people to have a second serving of the main course; a third helping would be rare.
How is that a "French" meal? You can eat those types of foods anywhere... I have had many meals that look exactly like that here in the U.S., both cooked at home and out at restaurants. Don't believe what you read on Reddit, HN, and other websites that hate Americans. Not all Americans eat McDonald's burgers and fries and other crappy processed food for every meal. We are just like anyone else. Some of us (not all) a…
As far as judging American nutrition, I've lived here for almost 4 years now, so I'm not basing my remarks solely off HN/Reddit/etc. :)
So I started developing something remarkably similar about 4 years ago (in Django, too!). Wrote up a business plan with monetization, p&l, etc. I brought the plan and prototype to a few seed folks for early funding before I admittedly lost interest and moved onto something else. The hardest technical challenge I had was, knowing there would need to be a ton of recipes in the system to make it truly effective, I had t…
And I'd love to do the grocery store monetization idea, but trying to form partnerships with the grocery chains always seemed like a daunting time commitment. Maybe I'll send out some feelers this week.
I was just looking for this kind of information the other day. Is there a way to give it a budget?
I was just looking for this kind of information the other day. Is there a way to give it a budget?
This probably sounds sad but the effort and potential anxiety required in trying to pick the right foods and what I might want to eat often means I just get lazy and eat out instead. A case where having an astounding number of options often leaves one wanting to pick none of the above.
This is a great idea.
Edit: Mobile website please!
(Nothing wrong with making me enter a CC for the trial, but make it clearer upfront.)
Looks great, and seems to have improved a lot since the last time I saw it here. This has the potential to be a hugely helpful tool and is in a market that's really lacking.