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Many of my friends use calorie trackers like Lose it! or MyFitnessPal. And I've heard many complaints about them locking basic functionality behind a subscription. The straw that broke the camel's back was not allowing barcode scanning without a sub. I've been looking for a meaty, pun intended, side project to pick up and decided to try to do some good while saving some people money!

  • Built using Tauri in order to use Angular for the GUI and get mobile platform support.

  • Data is stored on-device using SQLite.

  • Initially I'm only targeting Android, I'd love to target iOS too but I don't own any Apple devices to dev+test on.

  • I'd say it's a "late alpha" as of right now. It has most but not all functionality, but has only been tested by me so there are likely small bugs that need to be found.

  • My wife really likes manatees, hence the name.

  • I've commissioned an artist for a logo so that should be coming by February.

Would love to hear people's thoughts! Currently you'd have to build the app yourself, though I do have an item on my to-do list to generate signed APKs via a github action. Mostly I'm just looking to start spreading the word now and hopefully get some good feature requests or bug reports. If you've read this far, thanks for your time!

Edit: I figured out how to generate signed APKs via GitHub so I have a v0.2.0 Pre-Release up. It's already led me to finding out there are some bugs on Samsung phones that don't happen on my Pixel so please submit any issues you encounter! Thank you!

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[-] jet@hackertalks.com 7 points 4 days ago

Just looking at the github here are my immediate ideas:

  • Be able to favorite specific meal combinations (i.e. you eat the same breakfast all the time) for recording
  • The meal display uses kcals as the subline, it would be useful if this could be set to protein, or carbs for people trying to hit different non calorie targets.
  • Ability to set alerts/reminders if falling behind a target (like 60g of protein every 4 hours, etc)
  • allow for food diary photos, i.e. take a snapshot now and fill it in later, or just so a buddy can see what you ate.
  • Since so much data is already being tracked, allow for weighins, ketones, gluecose measurements to be tracked as well, or integrate with the android health-connect api
  • allow for api access to user data, for those tinkerers / automators
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