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Show HN: Trying to eat better? I built a nutrional assistant

17 points| dammsaturn | 7 months ago |chat.eko-bazaar.com

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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crab_galaxy|7 months ago

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

nkozyra|7 months ago

A chat interface seems like the wrong approach for something like this. This feels like an guided agent interface, the way we interact with nutrionists or personal trainers.

If you need help with these things, a blank page is a bad way to start.

bluetidepro|7 months ago

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|7 months ago

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.

add-sub-mul-div|7 months ago

Is it a cool idea, though, to turn over your health to a system that's both nondeterministic and opaque?

Tepix|7 months ago

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|7 months ago

Thanks for spotting the typo, server got overloaded but its back up now, you can try again

sometimes_all|7 months ago

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|7 months ago

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.

lnsru|7 months ago

Exactly my experience.

On other hand eating better does not need many assistants. The less processed food is simply better. No sugar, adequate portion size, enough water.

ramon156|7 months ago

Pretty sure its just Hug of Death

freilanzer|7 months ago

> "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.

rkomorn|7 months ago

That's part of the caloric intake reduction strategy... Can't eat the ingredients you can't read in the recipe.

dammsaturn|7 months ago

I really appreciate this feedback and would work on fixing this

Disposal8433|7 months ago

"Failed to generate content. Please try again." when I ask a question.

dammsaturn|7 months ago

My server got overloaded but you can try again now.

gritlin|7 months ago

Not sure how to use this. May be a video might be helpful. Thanks!

dammsaturn|7 months ago

working on putting out a demo video, would be out soon.

upheaval7276|7 months ago

AI_ERROR Failed to generate content. Please try again.

dammsaturn|7 months ago

My server got overloaded, but it's back up now. you can try again