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Show HN: Trying to eat better? I built a nutrional assistant (chat.eko-bazaar.com)

17 points by dammsaturn ↗ HN
I spent 3 years building an e-commerce side project to order groceries online, which later pivoted in the last 6 months to a complete Ai nutrional assitant, that can personalize meal plans, recipes, meal suggestions, and even scrape the internet for where to purchase grocery items in your chat.

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bluetidepro
Seems like a cool idea at a very high level, but I feel like the homepage needs a lot more context than what it has. How it works, what it does, best way to use it, etc.

Also, just a heads up that the chat window is a bit broken on mobile. It has some weird scroll hijacking that breaks chats.

dammsaturn
Heyy, thanks alot you can visit https://www.eko-bazaar.com/about to know more or get some inspos on how to use it, and thanks for highlighting the chat window, and scroll bug, would work on fixing that.
upheaval7276
AI_ERROR Failed to generate content. Please try again.
dammsaturn
My server got overloaded, but it's back up now. you can try again
Disposal8433
"Failed to generate content. Please try again." when I ask a question.
dammsaturn
My server got overloaded but you can try again now.
sometimes_all
I keep seeing "Failed to generate content. Please try again.".

It's a bit difficult for me to know what sort of questions I can ask this assistant. Maybe a few examples might help?

dammsaturn
You can have it create a meal plan for you, list out food recipes for a particular dish, and basically just test your imagination with, you can also ask it how to make a particular dish and suggest where to purchase ingredients for it, it's still in a beta phase so your feedback would be used to make improvements.
gritlin
Not sure how to use this. May be a video might be helpful. Thanks!
dammsaturn
working on putting out a demo video, would be out soon.
crab_galaxy
I’m interested based on the title but I have no idea how to use it. I think a placeholder prompt or basic instruction would go a long way, otherwise it just looks like a chatGPT clone
freilanzer
> "BAZ-1, your nutrutional AI assistant"

Nutritional. I created a recipe but I cannot scroll up (in Firefox) since it immediately skips back to the bottom, so I can't read all of it.

Interesting idea though! I'll try it.

Edit: the shopping part takes a while, then it works.

dammsaturn
I really appreciate this feedback and would work on fixing this
Tepix
Very 1st impression: There are currently typos both on the starting page: "nutrutional" and in the title and the body of the post "nutrional".

2nd impression: I entered a request and got an error message. I guess your server is overloaded.

dammsaturn
Thanks for spotting the typo, server got overloaded but its back up now, you can try again
antisthenes
The problem with nutrition isn't the lack of a middleman feeding you (pun intended) information about what you should be eating.

It's finding the willpower to keep it consistent and not cheat.