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Just read the Google Play reviews, the app still has a long way to go to be usable. But it's still a great idea. Also, they should calculate both the calories
by imp0cat 2y ago
Just read the Google Play reviews, the app still has a long way to go to be usable.
But it's still a great idea.
Also, they should calculate both the calories and power requirements for each meal analyzed. What I mean is, it should says something like: this burger has 800 kcal and the analysis consumed 1kw of datacenter power. ;)
- Incipient 2y ago>But it's still a great idea. Define "great". It has $2m revenue, so it's clearly a great idea (at this stage?) financially and 'people love it' (30% retention) Technically it's a garbage idea, and I'd say they could get class-actioned without good T&Cs. It's literally impossible to determine the sugar and fat content of a meal. I'd never make it for the latter reason, however you clearly need to believe in the former to make it big haha.
- spzb 2y ago30% retention means that 70% of people who have paid for it didn't consider it valuable enough to pay for. The $2m figure is unverified but, even if it was, turnover is meaningless without knowing their expenses. If they're burning through £2.1m in LLM compute and marketing then they're losing money. Plus, the guy seems like a dick so I'm taking his story with an enormous pinch of salt.
- imgabe 2y agokw is an instantaneous measurement. Energy usage would be kWh (kilowatt-hours). Considering it would take a tiny fraction of a server’s compute for less than a second this would be very small.
- imp0cat 2y agoRight, speed vs distance. Still, I'd love to know the numbers.
- rsynnott 2y ago> But it's still a great idea. No, it isn't, because it can never work. It is, in general, impossible to determine the calorie content of food by looking at a picture of it.