Show HN: Customised meal plan to boost yourself

Re:Show HN: Customised meal plan to boost yourself by auganov on Thursday August 29, 2013 @05:22AM (#6294979)

How do you plan to compute that based on studies? If you could implement a nice way to do that based on actual study results it would be super interesting. As in not a bunch of hard-corded rules. Perhaps it could somehow be crowd-sourced. Not sure if there'll be enough people for that tho.

Also there should be a way to input what you actually it so it can self-adjust based on what you're actually doing rather than what you'd ideally be doing. As in "okay we can see that you don't really eat X so let's try Y". But I guess then you'd loose 95% of potential users cause that's a pain to do.

There was this mental health company that would suggest the right medication based on statistics. Supposedly it was much more accurate than regular diagnoses that you'd get from a doctor. I can't find it thought ;C

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Re:Show HN: Customised meal plan to boost yourself by trez on Thursday August 29, 2013 @05:59AM (#6295064)

We read scientific studies and extract a profile from them.

About adapting your profile, after now 40+ interviews it seems it would only work for really specific segment (like fitness addict) as it implies to much daily inputs.

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Re:Show HN: Customised meal plan to boost yourself by auganov on Thursday August 29, 2013 @08:10AM (#6295356)

Yep. Maybe you could try some kind of a weekly checklist kind of thing? Like your weight and a bunch of yes no questions. So it takes like 1 minute. I think you need to find a way to make it provide value on an on-going basis. Otherwise the utility of that app is pretty low. Maybe you guys could find some way to bridge what "regular people" and "maniacs" like. Basically to somehow gather input from people that are wiling to do that without scaring regulars away. The data you gather could be the most valuable thing your company has.

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Re:Show HN: Customised meal plan to boost yourself by trez on Friday August 30, 2013 @12:49AM (#6300323)

We are looking for a way to do that but we haven't found any quick but accurate enough way to do that for the moment. I am confident we would find one day :)

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