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Great response. My idea of the tool was quite simple. I want to remove the friction between eating and measuring. So here's what I was thinking (but please feel

• noahc 15y ago
  Not that. I lost a bunch of weight (50+ lbs) by eating the same meals over and over and over and over again. If I had to text 1cup this, 3oz that, 1/2 cup flour, blah, blah every time I ate, I'd go buy a large pizza from a chain store and get the calorie count that way. It'd be a lot easier. Your sms system is an incentive to eat processed foods. I'd look at the psychology of weight loss and also read about personal finance too. You're probably not the person to build this unless you've tried to loose weight. All the advice is worthless unless you can build a new lifestyle. In order to do that you need to introduce barriers to food consumption.
• rcavezza 15y ago
  Here's the problem: Even that's too much friction. You probably will have a nice base of users that are hardcore dieters, but I don't think you will reach the niche you are targeting. I think the problem lies in the fact that most eating is a social activity and most social places to eat (ie restaurants) aim to make their food tasty instead of healthy. I think movements to make calorie counts on every menu will help much more than to develop an app like the one you proposed.