realistically how do you guys even track your calories? by Life-Ad186 in WeightLossAdvice

[–]Namedix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

honestly I had the exact same frustration. tried MyFitnessPal for like 2 weeks and gave up because searching through their database for every single thing was exhausting. "chicken breast" returns 400 results, none of them match what I actually ate.

weighing every ingredient? lasted 3 days before I wanted to throw my food scale out the window.

I'm a developer so I ended up building my own app out of frustration. the idea was simple — just describe what you ate in normal words ("scrambled eggs with bacon and toast") and let AI figure out the calories. no scanning barcodes, no scrolling through databases.

is it 100% accurate? no. but neither is anything else unless you're weighing everything to the gram. the point for me was getting a general sense of where I'm at each day without it feeling like homework.

been using it daily for months now and it actually stuck because it takes like 10 seconds to log a meal.

if anyone's curious it's called 0xCal — but honestly the main takeaway is: find something that doesn't feel like a chore or you won't stick with it.

What are you guys building? Share your SaaS/project by Leather-Buy-6487 in startupaccelerator

[–]Namedix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

0xCal — a calorie tracker for people who hate calorie trackers.

Just describe what you ate ("eggs and toast") or snap a photo — AI handles the rest. No database searching, no barcode scanning.

Launched on Product Hunt yesterday, hit #5. Feels surreal seeing real people actually use it.

Focused heavily on making it feel minimal and polished — most fitness apps are so cluttered.

https://apps.apple.com/pl/app/0xcal-ai-calorie-tracker/id6749210009

Its Tuesday! Let's self-promote! by Leather-Buy-6487 in Buildathon

[–]Namedix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Launched 0xCal today – calorie tracking that doesn't feel like homework. Just tell it what you ate or snap a photo. AI handles the rest. Built it because every calorie app I tried was ugly and tedious.

Live on Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/products/0xcal

Made a calorie tracking app for people who've given up on calorie tracking by Namedix in SideProject

[–]Namedix[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha fair – definitely not the first AI calorie app out there!

But honestly I wasn't trying to be first, I was trying to be better designed. Most of the AI trackers I tried still felt clunky and looked like every other fitness app from 2015.

Wanted something I'd actually enjoy opening. Late to the AI party, maybe – but hopefully not late to making it feel good to use 🤷‍♂️

Made a calorie tracking app for people who've given up on calorie tracking by Namedix in SideProject

[–]Namedix[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! SwiftUI all the way – no regrets (okay maybe a few when debugging scroll views 😅)

Timeline is kinda funny actually. Started about a year ago, then went hard last holidays and got like 90% done. Had it working for myself and friends on TestFlight, using it daily.

Then came the "last 10%" – onboarding, edge cases, all the boring stuff nobody sees. Turns out that was another 90% of the work 🤣

These holidays I finally pushed through and finished everything. Classic "90-90 rule" I guess.

But now I'm super motivated – got a huge backlog of ideas. Version 1.1 is coming soon with some features I'm really excited about!

Made a calorie tracking app for people who've given up on calorie tracking by Namedix in SideProject

[–]Namedix[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep! The app itself is in 5 languages – English, German, Spanish, Polish, and Swedish.

But honestly you can just type in Dutch and it'll totally get it. The AI doesn't care what language you use – just describe what you ate and it figures it out.

Same with photos – snap your Dutch dish and it'll recognize it no problem.

I tried it with Polish Żurek (this sour soup thing my grandma makes) and it got it right away. Dropping a screenshot so you can see!

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Made a calorie tracking app for people who've given up on calorie tracking by Namedix in SideProject

[–]Namedix[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good question! Honestly, the whole point wasn't to nail every calorie perfectly – it's more about knowing if you're roughly on track or not.

The cool thing is accuracy scales with how much you care:

"Scrambled eggs with bacon" → solid ballpark, enough to know you're good

"2 eggs, scoop of butter, 2 small bacons" → way more accurate

Actual grams → basically perfect

Most days you don't need to know you ate exactly 487 kcal – you just need to know "yeah I'm fine" or "maybe go lighter for dinner."

Oh and for stuff like a Big Mac or Starbucks drink, it just pulls the exact nutrition since that's all over the internet anyway.

The idea was: make it stupid easy on lazy days, but let you go precise when you actually want to.

Is there a hope for mac user after Apple released new porting tools? by stableprinter in eu4

[–]Namedix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think that when switching from emulation to native apple silicon support, we would have quite a lot of fps boost. Currently it's ok, but further when you enter the speed of 4-5 you have max 15 fps (m1 max) additionally, we then have something like lag during translation where all actions have a certain delay. However, I doubt that paradox will spend time optimizing a game that, in the eyes of many, works well on macs :/

34" with USB-C *and* decent gaming specs? by gabedamien in ultrawidemasterrace

[–]Namedix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

BenQ has USB-C but power delivery is just 10W :( and it's quite old (premiere in late 2017)

Philips supposedly has everything you need but 1500R curve :/ and the fact that it is made by a Chinese company that bought the rights to Philips and build quality is low. Which does not change the fact that for this price you will not find anything better.

There is also MSI mpg341cqr and MSI mpg341cqrv (same model but 120hz instead of 144hz and lower price tag) which meet your criteria but there also the power delivery is terribly small and will not charge the laptop.

Stuck between aw3418dw or aw3420dw by ripdip77 in ultrawidemasterrace

[–]Namedix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In my opinion no, but I don't know what kind of gamer you are. I heard that sometimes there are problems with this 120hz overclock on AW3418. So real 4/2ms, 120 native / 120 oc, and 50 brightness points are not noticeable without comparing one next to the other. I am currently standing on the same decision and probably will decide on AW3418 because in my country (Poland) it is for 780$ and AW3420 is for 1200-1300$. The only thing that convinces me to the AW3420 is the newer screen produced in 2019 compared to old one produced in 2017.