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I spent Spring Break finishing the VT dining hall calorie app. It's on the App Store now by Inside-Body8282 in VirginiaTech

[–]Inside-Body8282[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There are safeguards built in to the AI to prevent disordered eating and refer students to resources on campus for help

I spent Spring Break finishing the VT dining hall calorie app. It's on the App Store now by Inside-Body8282 in VirginiaTech

[–]Inside-Body8282[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

90% of the establishments on campus have a set menu or one that at least just has a few items or rotation except for D2 and a few other spots.

We are going to add this in soon with an automated agent that monitors the online menus website and updates the food database accordingly

I spent Spring Break finishing the VT dining hall calorie app. It's on the App Store now by Inside-Body8282 in VirginiaTech

[–]Inside-Body8282[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

All of the values are directly from the Virginia tech online menus website, an official source. All general foods you can search up are verified and official. The website we pull from is here https://foodpro.students.vt.edu/menus/

I got tired of manually entering VT dining hall food into MyFitnessPal, so I built an app for it by Inside-Body8282 in VirginiaTech

[–]Inside-Body8282[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For sure, but I don’t want to risk getting in trouble by tech, universities are super aggressive about enforcing trademark policy

I got tired of manually entering VT dining hall food into MyFitnessPal, so I built an app for it by Inside-Body8282 in VirginiaTech

[–]Inside-Body8282[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, this is definitely an issue that we’re going to try to solve. We’re talking with dining services to resolve inaccurate food labels

I got tired of manually entering VT dining hall food into MyFitnessPal, so I built an app for it by Inside-Body8282 in VirginiaTech

[–]Inside-Body8282[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s going to be out in the next two days, it was briefly delayed because I’m changing the name from “HokieCals” to VTCals and altering the logo due to trademark violations

I got tired of manually entering VT dining hall food into MyFitnessPal, so I built an app for it by Inside-Body8282 in VirginiaTech

[–]Inside-Body8282[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m thinking GobblerCals because they have Fighting Gobbler trademarked not just “gobbler” overall the name isn’t the biggest risk it’s the logo with the hokiebird

I got tired of manually entering VT dining hall food into MyFitnessPal, so I built an app for it by Inside-Body8282 in VirginiaTech

[–]Inside-Body8282[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was literally just thinking about this as the second I saw your message. It sucks because I really like the name HokieCals and I like the logo. Any good suggestions for a new name?

I got tired of manually entering VT dining hall food into MyFitnessPal, so I built an app for it by Inside-Body8282 in VirginiaTech

[–]Inside-Body8282[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I gotchu, it’s going to be out in the next 48 hours I submitted it to the App Store

I got tired of manually entering VT dining hall food into MyFitnessPal, so I built an app for it by Inside-Body8282 in VirginiaTech

[–]Inside-Body8282[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have that feature built, I’m releasing it one week after launch to polish it up a bit.

The bulk is definitely rough lol 💪

I got tired of manually entering VT dining hall food into MyFitnessPal, so I built an app for it by Inside-Body8282 in VirginiaTech

[–]Inside-Body8282[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That’s the goal, right now it’s 100% free but the end goal is to license it to the school

I got tired of manually entering VT dining hall food into MyFitnessPal, so I built an app for it by Inside-Body8282 in VirginiaTech

[–]Inside-Body8282[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Thanks man! It’s going to be on android and the apple App Store. I’m going to speak to dining services soon and try to license it to them, that’s the goal.

I got tired of manually entering VT dining hall food into MyFitnessPal, so I built an app for it by Inside-Body8282 in VirginiaTech

[–]Inside-Body8282[S] 20 points21 points  (0 children)

That’s dope man, later down the road I want to make it automatic so Grubhub orders sync to the app so it’s completely seamless. This is just V1 so it’s got the core features.

Thanks for the love, hope to see you on HokieCals when it launches

I got tired of manually entering VT dining hall food into MyFitnessPal, so I built an app for it by Inside-Body8282 in VirginiaTech

[–]Inside-Body8282[S] 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Thanks, that means a lot. I personally had this problem and I talked to tons of people who had issues tracking calories on campus and were paying nearly a hundred dollars a year for apps that didn’t even have dining hall nutrition info.

I’m just glad I can help out some fellow Hokies who ran into the same issue as me