Hey Product Hunt community! We're thrilled to share our latest creation with you – Belly Buddy, a new mobile app designed to transform your relationship with food and empower you to take control of your digestive health. The Idea Behind Belly Buddy At Belly Buddy, we believe that understanding the connection between what you eat and how you feel is key to a healthier, happier you. We wanted to create an app that provides a personalized experience that helps users identify the foods that might be linked to unpleasant digestive symptoms, such as bloating, gas, headaches, and skin rashes. It's also perfect for parents who need to understand what foods might be linked to digestive issues experienced by their kids. Our journey began with a simple question: Can we make an inexpensive, easy-to-use app that will help people gain insights into their diet and well-being? Our many hours of research, development, and user testing helped us to create, refine and enhance Belly Buddy, ensuring it meets the needs of people with various dietary preferences and health goals. It's also perfect for parents who need to understand what foods might be linked to digestive issues experienced by their kids. Building Belly Buddy Belly Buddy has been a fun project to build. Mike, our developer, is a seasoned programmer who has worked at a number of startups and a couple of larger companies (most notably LinkedIn). He had never worked in the health and wellness space before, and he had never written a mobile app before. He was eager to try using React Native Expo, since it was reputed to be a good way to quickly get an app up and running on both iOS and Android. This turned out to be a good idea, since it enabled him to iteratively develop the app and respond to user feedback quickly. Please Join Us, and Help Spread the Word We hope you will become a part of the Belly Buddy community. We encourage you to try out Belly Buddy, explore its features, and let us know how it affects your diet. Your feedback is invaluable as we continue to evolve and improve the app. If you have friends or family who deal with bothersome digestive symptoms, please tell them about Belly Buddy. We hope you will help us spread the word and empower more people to improve their digestive health.

I haven't heard the term, "quantified self" in a while! I love many FODMAP foods like broccoli and cauliflower but they can lead to bloating. 🫃🏼

Hello guys. Congratulations on the launch. This is a very cool app, I want to know if you plan to add different languages?

Outstanding effort, Mike! This app is a game-changer, particularly beneficial for tech enthusiasts. Are there features like a sugar intake tracker catering to individuals with diabetes as well?

In this fast-paced world of fast food, applications like these play a crucial role in preventing stomach problems. Great initiative. 🥦

Wow, this is so cool! Are you also matching the best food for people with chronic diseases? Like ulcerative colitis

Hello Mike and the Belly Buddy team, Congratulations on launching Belly Buddy on Product Hunt! It's impressive to see an app that tackles the often-overlooked connection between diet and digestion. The personalized approach sounds incredibly user-friendly, especially for those new to managing their dietary health. I'm curious, was there a personal experience that inspired the creation of Belly Buddy, or was it the observed need in the wider community that sparked the idea? Looking forward to trying it out and sharing with those I know could benefit from such insights! Good luck with the journey ahead.

Great work Mike! This a gamer changer app that is very useful for tech people. Do you also have a sugar intake tracker for diabetic people?

Hey @mike_wertheim such a great and intuitive product! In a world where so many of us have our health declining and are bombarded with fitness routines and new diets Belly Buddy feels like a breath of fresh air! Can't wait to try this out, I think it'd be really cool if we could also upload a picture of what we are eating, I don't trust myself to manually track everything I eat

Idea: A feature like the app Yuka where you can scan a barcode and then see the reporting about how likely that food or ingredient in the food would mess you up based on the data learned in the app...obviously the more use the better.

This app really deserves the top vote. With an app like this we would actually know what we about to take is healthy enough for us. I love my health and any assistance that would help me eat right is very much welcome. Very nice ✌

Wow, this is so cool! Are you also matching the best food for people with chronic diseases? Like ulcerative colitis

It was time for a specific digestive app like this, health and emotions a direct linked with what we eat. Im curious about how you related and specific issue, not it may be also a lot of external facts to take into account. By the way, congrats and thanks for diving in such an important issue.

Looks like a great product! I am looking forward to testing this out in the future!

This seems like a really good app! It has a simple way to use and an intuitive design. Also, I've never seen symptoms correlated with food before, which is so interesting. I believe it could help many people with their diets.

This is exactly what I need to help me monitor my digestive issues.

Great product! I really like the idea and realisation! Great job! Congrats on the launch! ❤️

Congrats on the launch team! I really love the concept of Belly Buddy and excited it’s finally time for you guys to launch. It goes on step further than all the other food intake apps and actually look at symptoms associated! 👏

Wow Nice Idea! In this fast-paced world of fast food, applications like these play a crucial role in preventing stomach problems. Great initiative

Terrific concept. Gut health is crucial to your wellbeing! Best of luck with your launch!