Preview HN: match-making site for food

usablehealth.com is my startup that I've been working on for the past year or so. We're funded through research grants from Georgia Tech. We've also partnered with restaurants, gyms, and self-insured employers and health systems. Our first official launch is Aug 9, with our second Sept 1.

Our algorithm uses some key metrics about you (age, height, weight, activity level) to give you the optimal meals from your favorite restaurants that will help you achieve your health goals. We also allow you to choose a starting meal, and then swap that meal out for something healthier. These recommendations are something we call "Health-Based Meal Swaps". We are trying to become the Netflix or Amazon of meal recommendations.

I want to give the HN community a preview before we launch. You can do this two ways, by going to http://usablehealth.com and clicking on 'Sign up for free' with the promo code 'hackernews' or you can sign in right away with a generic profile with username 'hacker' password 'news1'. This promo code and test user will be removed at the end of this week.

We would love your feedback about anything on the site. There is a 'Feedback' tab on the right of every page after you sign in, or you can send me an email at andre at usablehealth dot com.

Thanks, and we look forward to your feedback.

The site is interesting. I like the meal swap approach -- normally I get cravings for a particular meal so I can just put that there and get a healthy substitute -- nifty.

Some things I've noticed so far:

* in signup, it would be nice to be able to specify meters vs feet. I had to google the conversion

* in signup, 'inactive' looks clicked, had to think for a sec before noticing it wasn't (and the signup form wouldn't let me sign up)

Thanks drx. We are still struggling with trying to find a catchy name for "meal swaps". Suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Would it be interesting if users could name a meal swap after them?

I think the idea is really interesting. Even without a link, this is one of the few show/tell HN submissions that had me raise an eyebrow. Good idea, good work

I was a little surprised to find a McDonalds chicken sandwich with over 50% of recommended daily salt intake (default 'hacker' settings) given a four out of five star recommendation. There's a fine line between not being too harsh about people's diet and being overly generous in ratings!

I like the basic concept and I'm sure there are plenty of ways of extending and expanding upon it.