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Show HN: I made an AI-powered weight loss challenge that pays you cash

2 points by nilni 2y ago

Hi HN, I’m Nil. Ever since I started working on startups, my weight has been hard to control. The wake-up call came when my doctor warned me about the risk of permanent high blood pressure due to obesity. This motivated me to create YesCoach AI, an AI-powered weight loss coach. After reading several research papers on virtual weight loss services, I found that financial incentives, daily weigh-ins, and regular encouragement significantly boost weight loss success. So, I combined AI and a weight loss challenge to create the current version of yescoach.ai. How YesCoach Works: Sign Up and Onboard: Join the challenge by completing the onboarding process. Daily Check-ins: Respond with your daily weight check-in every day during the challenge period (allowing 3 misses for the 3-month challenge, and 6 misses for the 6-month challenge). Achieve Your Goal: Keep your weight below the goal amount by the end of the challenge and submit your final weigh-in to win the reward! Since this is a soft launch, if you find a bug and report it to support email or my Twitter (@_nilni), you will get 1 extra miss allowed for your challenge (after verification, maximum of 3 per user). I’d love to hear your feedback and suggestions. Thanks for checking out yescoach.ai!

nilni 2y ago
Use SL30 to get 30dollar off
NetworkPerson 2y ago
So this is something that you check in with every day and get a positive statement from? Does it actually help in weight loss by looking at exercise or meal planning? Reading through the site, it sounds like I tell a robot how much I weigh each day and it encourages me to keep trying.
- nilni 2y ago
  yea, thats the basic feature and in addition, if you successfully loss 10% of your weight, I will send you 30 dollar or more if you do 6 month. I built this as an external discipline coach to encourage people to loss weight(that was the reason why my weight loss failed) On exercise or meal planning: currently you can talk to the AI about exercise or meal planning (it is gpt4o in the back), but currently I don't save exercise and meal planning detail so it won't be able to remember that many details if you want it to remember your execise detail for 3 month.... but thats a feature I can add. to the point above: let me know if you want it, I will add that as a feature if you are interested to try it out :)

2 points by nilni 2y ago

nilni 2y ago

Use SL30 to get 30dollar off

NetworkPerson 2y ago

So this is something that you check in with every day and get a positive statement from? Does it actually help in weight loss by looking at exercise or meal planning? Reading through the site, it sounds like I tell a robot how much I weigh each day and it encourages me to keep trying.

nilni 2y ago
yea, thats the basic feature and in addition, if you successfully loss 10% of your weight, I will send you 30 dollar or more if you do 6 month. I built this as an external discipline coach to encourage people to loss weight(that was the reason why my weight loss failed) On exercise or meal planning: currently you can talk to the AI about exercise or meal planning (it is gpt4o in the back), but currently I don't save exercise and meal planning detail so it won't be able to remember that many details if you want it to remember your execise detail for 3 month.... but thats a feature I can add. to the point above: let me know if you want it, I will add that as a feature if you are interested to try it out :)