joshdickson
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Currently building OpenNutrition.
Email: me@joshdickson.com Website: opennutrition.app Twitter/X: x.com/joshdickson40
Email: me@joshdickson.com Website: opennutrition.app Twitter/X: x.com/joshdickson40
Ah that's a good idea, should add that. Also I appreciate your phrasing of "you guys" when, as a solo developer, if someone thinks your efforts are the product of a larger team, it's always appreciated :)
Thank you for your kind words and feedback. The search should be better now, and is much better in-app with additional local caching. I can assure you that you are not overthinking it in terms of figuring that…
Almost every protein that I consume is weighed raw for ease in logging. One reason is if you are cooking a dish with e.g. bacon as an ingredient, you may not be able or want to separate it out at the end. Likewise, if I…
Thank you for your questions and feedback. > When something doesn't have a reference listed, and just says "sourced from a publicly available first-party datasource", what does that mean? It depends, and the degree to…
I've explained why OFF is not an adequate source in and of itself for a food logging app elsewhere in the thread. If it were usable in and of itself, I wouldn't have had anything to build on the database front and would…
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The licensing terms are identical to similar projects including OpenFoodFacts (which also has an app) and OpenStreetMap, see: https://wiki.openfoodfacts.org/ODBL_License You may disagree with each of those projects as…
That's what OpenNutrition does. However, in many cases, there is no publicly accessible "non-AI data" source to refer to. OpenNutrition tries to bridge the gap, using the public data when available, and providing…
There's an in-depth review of the reasoning for undertaking this project in general and this approach in particular in the Methodology/About section below, see "Current State of Nutritional Data". Millions of people use…
Pretty standard Next app on Vercel. Some pre-fetching. Food pages are cached post-generation. Custom go-based search server behind a Cloudflare cache. Any other questions?
I wrote a Go-based search engine that indexes full words and prefixes for the foods and their alternate names because I was dissatisfied with how slow OpenSearch was given the very specific needs I had. I have…
Thank you for your feedback. > If I can join the endless queue of feature requests, the ability to scale the portion size and update the nutrition facts would be great This is all supported in-app if you're in a country…
OpenNutrition uses many of the same open datasources included there, including USDA SR, CNF, AUSNUT, etc. The other datasources are licensed and not open, and I do not use those so that I can deliver a free app with a…
Your other comment is too deep in the thread for me to reply, but just wanted to say I appreciate you checking out the project and commenting, and appreciate the many years of effort you've undertaken in this space. How…
Thank you very much for your feedback. Building a great product that did not have variable usage costs that allowed for a generous free tier was my primary motivation for undertaking this project. While there is a need…
Thank you for the feedback. Have you asked one of the LLMs used to tell you about the choline content of a food, even ungrounded? They are surprisingly good at reasoning about what kinds of foods tend to contain large…
Thank you for your feedback. This would be a great dataset to include -- my next priority is the Japanese government dataset which would expand food coverage for more traditional Asian diets, but this is a great…
Would you mind posting/messaging me in some way (links in bio) what you expected it to show? It looks like for unsweetened oat milk: https://www.opennutrition.app/search/unsweetened-oat-milk-mt... ...it is leaning into…
Thank you! The images are created via Flux (Schnell, due to cost). An LLM (currently Gemini Flash) creates the prompt, Flux generates the images, a rembg lambda that I open-sourced trims the background out, and then a…
Which country would you like it available in?
Should be back up now, I didn't scale up quickly enough for the traffic. My apologies and thank you for the report.
The idea of including that requirement in the license is a good idea and I had not considered it, but I will -- frankly my motivations have been more on the citation side of things such that the need for quality…
Thank you :)
Both products show a 1 cup (41g) and 160 calorie serving size to me? OpenNutrition: https://www.opennutrition.app/search/honey-bunches-of-oats-h... Via Manufacturer:…
I envisioned many lines of inquiry from HN but the idea that a compressed TSV of nutritional data is not a "dataset" (definition: a collection of related sets of information that is composed of separate elements but can…