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FoodSnap You take a photo of everything you eat. The app organizes the photos by day. The daily digest view shows you everything you ate for that day. This co

FoodSnap You take a photo of everything you eat. The app organizes the photos by day. The daily digest view shows you everything you ate for that day. This could be used for dieting (perhaps looking at everything you ate that day before going to sleep helps you realize how much you actually ate, as opposed to not thinking about it when you're munching bite by bite). This could be used for personal discovery (probably everything you eat has an effect. You can start to become more vigilant of your food patterns by keeping a visual journal). This could be used for medical purposes (need to monitor what you're eating, etc). Anyhow, probably v1 is very simple. Version A might involve image detections. Version B might just get some mechanical turks to identify what you ate to make the visual data textual. Version C might let you make quick notes after you take the photo. Brainstorm to where the app is something people pay to download or use. [edited typos]

gms7777 13y ago
It looks like a few people have had this same idea: MealLogger: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wellnessfoundry.meallogger.android&hl=en https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wellnessfo... https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/meallogger-photo-food-journal/id340837652 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/meallogger-photo-food-journa... Odish: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.odish.app&hl=en https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.odish.app&... I don't know much about those apps though, so I don't know if they're actually any good.
- jaredsohn 13y ago
  There is even an app (MealSnap: http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/05/too-lazy-to-count-calories-now-you-can-just-take-a-picture-of-your-meal/# http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/05/too-lazy-to-count-calories-...) that goes a step further and returns back calorie estimates from a photo. (But I haven't personally used it so I can't say how good that one is either.)
  - jlees 13y ago
    It's not very good. I had that idea around the same time, tried to use MealSnap, gave up and decided the problem was on the wrong side of the difficult/interesting balance for me. After looking at the photos I took for ~a week, I felt that as a human I'd be wildly inaccurate with the calorie counts, so how on earth could a machine be better? (Though, I was eating in a company cafeteria. Combining photos with geolocation for popular restaurants could be a good start to a more reliable, if sparse, approach.)
rfnslyr 13y ago
Haha I'm literally working on this, been using it to diet. I made a simple glorified calorie counter but I'm working on integrating instagram for it. Instagram your food and in the description you put #p#f#c, so if my meal is 200 grams of protein, 200 carbs, and 200 fat, I'd write 200p200f200c. End of the day my app parses all that and lays out the photos in a timeline and then calculates daily macros.
Basilius 13y ago
Yeah I can see it being useful (not being sarcastic)... but let's see what the OP says in response!

gms7777 13y ago

It looks like a few people have had this same idea: MealLogger: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wellnessfoundry.meallogger.android&hl=en https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wellnessfo... https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/meallogger-photo-food-journal/id340837652 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/meallogger-photo-food-journa... Odish: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.odish.app&hl=en https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.odish.app&... I don't know much about those apps though, so I don't know if they're actually any good.

jaredsohn 13y ago
There is even an app (MealSnap: http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/05/too-lazy-to-count-calories-now-you-can-just-take-a-picture-of-your-meal/# http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/05/too-lazy-to-count-calories-...) that goes a step further and returns back calorie estimates from a photo. (But I haven't personally used it so I can't say how good that one is either.)
- jlees 13y ago
  It's not very good. I had that idea around the same time, tried to use MealSnap, gave up and decided the problem was on the wrong side of the difficult/interesting balance for me. After looking at the photos I took for ~a week, I felt that as a human I'd be wildly inaccurate with the calorie counts, so how on earth could a machine be better? (Though, I was eating in a company cafeteria. Combining photos with geolocation for popular restaurants could be a good start to a more reliable, if sparse, approach.)

rfnslyr 13y ago

Haha I'm literally working on this, been using it to diet. I made a simple glorified calorie counter but I'm working on integrating instagram for it. Instagram your food and in the description you put #p#f#c, so if my meal is 200 grams of protein, 200 carbs, and 200 fat, I'd write 200p200f200c. End of the day my app parses all that and lays out the photos in a timeline and then calculates daily macros.

Basilius 13y ago

Yeah I can see it being useful (not being sarcastic)... but let's see what the OP says in response!