I understand the scepticism here. For sure this app isn’t 90% accurate in any traditional sense.
One note, as someone who also built a calorie tracking app with ai as well as lost a good amount of weight with it: accuracy for calorie tracking doesn’t matter. You can honestly just detect if it’s a meal and return 600 cals. For most people the simple fact that they become aware of what they eat and think about their food in an ongoing basis will lead them to loose Weight.
Sticking to it is the hard part.
It matters a lot if you have specific macro goals. If you don’t want to lose muscle, it is important to eat high protein especially during a cut. And keeping fat and/or carbs low while doing this is quite difficult without accurate data.
> You can honestly just detect if it’s a meal and return 600 cals.
That's ridiculous. What signal would that provide to the user? Let's say someone who is eating double the portions they should be eating. How will this hypothetical app help them figure that out?
> For most people the simple fact that they become aware of what they eat and think about their food in an ongoing basis will lead them to loose Weight.
And you think people will " become aware of what they eat" by shooting a picture of their food with an app which always say "600 cal"? I don't think you thought this through.
One note, as someone who also built a calorie tracking app with ai as well as lost a good amount of weight with it: accuracy for calorie tracking doesn’t matter. You can honestly just detect if it’s a meal and return 600 cals. For most people the simple fact that they become aware of what they eat and think about their food in an ongoing basis will lead them to loose Weight. Sticking to it is the hard part.