wnorris510

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by wnorris510 1y ago
Apple requires us to say you get more as part of premium. They have silly rules that tie our hands on stuff. You have access to everything as part of the free tier. Hopefully the recent court case from Riot will help make it easier for us t
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by wnorris510 1y ago
We published in the top conference of computer vision a peer reviewed study of our accuracy. On average we are twice the accuracy of a professional nutritionist. The product is free to try. If you're not happy with the accuracy, don&#x
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by wnorris510 1y ago
Our app uses LiDAR for portion and is a lot more accurate than ChatGPT, ChatGPT doesn't have access to LiDAR and is less accurate. Our app is free to use the most accurate model, ChatGPT is paid for the most accurate model and has usag
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by wnorris510 1y ago
You have access to all of the same features without upgrading to premium. Just click the "x" on the paywall.
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by wnorris510 1y ago
^^ 100%. Accuracy, speed, weight loss efficacy. Improving on each of this is a different solution.
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by wnorris510 1y ago
I got into this space because I saw many family members struggling with weight and nutrition. One of the leading causes of death in the United States is Diabetes, largely caused by poor nutrition and lack of exercise. I've spent the la
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by wnorris510 1y ago
100%. You should not trust photo based calorie tracking and should only use it when there is no other realistic choice (e.g. eating out). You especially should not trust an app that does not do any research on the accuracy of it's algo
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by wnorris510 1y ago
We do a lot of research on preventing eating disorders. As the article mentions we did not suggest she lose weight down to being underweight like other apps did. Our app has the fruit and veg counters ABOVE the calorie meter on the dashboar
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by wnorris510 1y ago
We do! You can read about our original approach back at Google AI in our CVPR publication here: https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/CVPR2021/papers/Thames... We've since come up with a much more accura
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by wnorris510 1y ago
Founder of https://snapcalorie.com and ex-Google AI researcher here. The article actually gets our pricing wrong, it's completely free to use SnapCalorie, the $79.99 price is a donation to support our research and help us c
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by wnorris510 2y ago
Totally fair point. My guess though is most people who are getting 5-9 servings of whole fruits / vegetables per day consistently don't (or maybe shouldn't for long) have a goal of losing weight. If people are hitting that go
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by wnorris510 2y ago
Haha, you say this until Apple does a breaking change to the barcode library or Apple Health export and things stop working. Then you probably want them to change some stuff :)
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by wnorris510 2y ago
You can start a 7 day free trial and cancel immediately. There is also a freemium tier at the end if you don't end up converting. We don't normally advertise this because we've been struggling to handle the load and costs of
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by wnorris510 2y ago
We don't discourage anyone from doing this! Free trial with access to all features stays live for the full 7 days even if you cancel immediately. Hope you enjoy it.
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by wnorris510 2y ago
Modern phones have LiDAR that give you the near exact volume and dimensions of everything on a plate. That's what we do: https://www.snapcalorie.com/ We co-authored a paper on this with Google AI and showed it got abou
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by wnorris510 2y ago
Looks like we used to have it in the description on the app store along with the FAQ but a team member made the decision to remove it because of complaints about it being inconsistent with the way Apple was localizing pricing to different c
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by wnorris510 2y ago
You really don't want to pay a one-time fee, it incentives the developers to stop maintaining the app.
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by wnorris510 2y ago
This is not a dark pattern, it's just a constraint that the app stores place on the pricing disclosure that is very non-intuitive. You have to mark your app as "free" to download if you charge a recurring subscription fee.
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by wnorris510 2y ago
Yeah, dividing out a known portion size is a good hack that will probably help with accuracy. In our research most people's calories and error came from eating out where they didn't have these hints, but this is a good trick if yo
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by wnorris510 2y ago
We're an early stage startup and the models are expensive, we're trying to get the price as low as possible, but yes we need to charge to cover costs right now. Sorry about that! You might get a yearly discount offer that is less
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by wnorris510 2y ago
We've also been surprised at SnapCalorie how many researchers have approached us to use the app for more accurate diet tracking for medical study participants. The LiDAR based portion size has been a huge draw for them. If anyone wants
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by wnorris510 2y ago
Some do, some do not. We put them through a standard portion size training course regardless to be sure.
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by wnorris510 2y ago
There is definitely a lot of variation in density, moisture content, fat percentage between regions, cuts, cooking amounts and methods. IMO using an average number here is probably best because to some extent it's hopeless to account f
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by wnorris510 2y ago
If you have a known bowl and fill it to a known position every day with the same type of food, then you can probably do better than the average for that specific meal. In our research we've found a majority of calories for most people
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by wnorris510 2y ago
Depends what your goal is. My suggestion is if your goal is weight loss, don't think about calorie tracking at all. Count your servings of whole vegetables/fruit. Try to MAXIMIZE these. Yes, maximize in order to lose weight. It&#x
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by wnorris510 2y ago
I've done research in this space for many years at Google AI and now at SnapCalorie. The thing I find interesting is how confident people are in their ability to estimate portion size visually, and in truth how wrong they all are. We p
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by wnorris510 3y ago
Super cool! People interested in this should also give SnapCalorie a try. Can help with the tracking side of the equation.
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by wnorris510 4y ago
How do I upvote this multiple times? Been playing for a few days now and it's so fun.