Bitesnap

Maker

Hi, I’m one of the founders of Bitesnap, a photo food journal and I’m excited to share our app with the Product Hunt Community. In Bitesnap logging a meal only takes a photo. The app recognizes foods in the image and automatically calculates calories and nutrients for the meal. We recognize over 1,300 types food and drink items out of the box, but we also learn to recognize the specific meals you eat regularly, even if they’re complex or unusual. These meals can be added to your log with just one tap. We’ve built Bitesnap from the ground up around photos. This lets us make input faster compared to other apps by skipping the text search step and recognize entire meals at once rather than one ingredient at a time. It also allows us to provide an Instagram-style feed of your meals that increases mindfulness and provides context about what, where, and why you ate. We have more on why we built in a blog post, https://blog.getbitesnap.com/int.... We are just getting started and would love to hear your feedback and thoughts!

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8yr ago

Kevin Leneway

PromptPlays.ai

@vinayan3 This is such a smart and impactful idea. I really hope this takes off, the potential health benefits of technology like this are huge.

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8yr ago

Vinay Anantharaman

Bitesnap

Maker

@kleneway Thanks, Kevin! Please let us know if you have any feedback.

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8yr ago

Vinay Anantharaman

Bitesnap

Maker

@klenway. Opps wrong comment thread.

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8yr ago

Jose Pita

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8yr ago

Vikrant Ramteke

Flutterbud

@vinayan3 I always thought why isn't there such a product that calculates calories just by looking at the food picture. This looks awesome!

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8yr ago

Brendon Rell

Desktop Fruit

The app itself is really impressive. I'm a MFP user and the exact type of person looking for this kind of tool - unfortunately the lack of Apple Health integration on iOS is a deal breaker for me, as the data isn't very useful stuck inside any one app. In the health space integrations are huge because it always involves aggregating data from different tracking sources. I do love the design of this though, and the onboarding experience was really nice. Good luck!

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8yr ago

Vinay Anantharaman

Bitesnap

Maker

@brendonto Apple Health and Google Fit integrations are one of the things we’re working on right now. Hopefully, we’ll be able to roll them out soon. We wanted to get Bitesnap out there as soon as we could in order to get feedback, even if some features are missing. Thanks for trying it out!

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8yr ago

Brendon Rell

Desktop Fruit

@vinayan3 Totally understandable - just launching is a huge deal, and the product is really polished, which isn't always the case with new apps! I would say though, that converting people who are already serious about tracking their calories/macros (which I assume is almost 100% of your target demographic) will be really tough without those integrations. There are many people like me who will use this as their first impression of the app, use it once, note the missing Health data, and then delete it. Even if Apple Health/Google Fit integrations show up later, you've already lost me as a user and I'm unlikely to come back, even with a "Bitesnap 2.0" launch on PH. On iOS, Health integration at this point is the required starting point, not a 'nice-to-have feature', in my opinion. My advice would be to 'un-launch' as much as possible until those basic integrations are working well, as you'll only have one first impression to make with prospective users/power users. All the best!

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8yr ago

Vinay Anantharaman

Bitesnap

Maker

@brendonto Thanks for the feedback. We are planning to get the integration out in the next week. We really hope that you will give us another try.

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8yr ago

Ari Lewis

Payload

@vinayan3 @brendonto I totally disagree with this. I am pretty serious about calorie tracking and currently use pen and paper, but am switching to try your app. I wasn't a fan of MFP and tried Fitbit's calorie tracker. For many techies, Google Fit/Apple Health is important, but for the non-tech crowd who might use pen/paper or MFP, I totally see this gaining traction. I also see you attracting people who want to track calories or guess at tracking and convert them.

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8yr ago

Brendon Rell

Desktop Fruit

@amlewis4 totally fair points, I was thinking more from an early-adopter perspective. There are a ton of people who *want* to consistently track these things, but most fall off regardless of the tool. Those who might consistently use this app are likely going to want their macro data to keep being fed into Health/Fit the way it currently is with MFP, Lifesum et al. Still, I can respect the pen and paper approach!

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8yr ago

Neal Shah

Been using this app today. Its been really great at recognizing the random food I make myself (greek yogurt with honey and granola. Sandwich I had for lunch). Makes logging faster than some of the other apps I've used in the past. It would be great if I could scan barcodes as well for the packaged food I eat. Will this feature be added at some point?

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8yr ago

Vinay Anantharaman

Bitesnap

Maker

@neal_shah Yeah we are planning to add barcode support in the next few weeks. So hang in there it's coming!

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8yr ago

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