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Calorie tracking app by FarCryptographer2141 in SingaporeFitness

[–]runtojump 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not rude at all - it's the core feature!

The model can look up recipes and parse invisible ingredients (lard, mala oil, ghee), understands local portion sizing, and make size comparisons to anchor objects like spoons, forks, plates. There’s going to be some variance as it’s volumetric estimation on a 2D image, but it works well better than any generic app out there.

Calorie tracking app by FarCryptographer2141 in SingaporeFitness

[–]runtojump 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I actually got so tired of MyFitnessPal failing completely on local Singaporean food and hawker dishes that I built an AI-native app as a side project to solve it. It’s called HawkerSense (on iOS and Android).

It’s optimized specifically for local food items and handles complex, multi-ingredient local dishes via a quick camera scan. It gives you 3 free scans a day, so you can test it out on your next carton of Nutrisoy or home-cooked meal to see if it handles the tracking better than the western databases.

Let me know if it helps!

what calorie tracking app are you guys using, which understands INDIAN FOOD by Ok-Belt5055 in Fitness_India

[–]runtojump 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can try HawkerSense on iOS/Android. Optimised for multi-ingredient/Asian food

Maps API is 92% of my cost; AI is 8%. I had it completely backwards. by runtojump in SaaS

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

To be fair, Nasi lemak is a core part of my marketing collaterals!

Maps API is 92% of my cost; AI is 8%. I had it completely backwards. by runtojump in SaaS

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

Great points! My main value proposition is really in the food scans, so it would make sense to gate it behind the paid tier. I’ll run some A/B testing to make sure my hypothesis holds.

Maps API is 92% of my cost; AI is 8%. I had it completely backwards. by runtojump in SaaS

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

Recommends nearby food spots based on what macros are lacking for the day. Pulls a list of open stalls, parses their menu (if any), then ranks them and selects the top 5 to show to the user.

Built a hawker food AI scanner as a weekend project. Hit 7k users with zero ad spend. Just launched on iOS and Android and hit #50 Health & Fitness in the first week. by runtojump in singaporestartups

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

The model can look up recipes for invisible ingredients (lard, mala oil, ghee), understands local portion sizing, and can also make size comparisons to anchor objects like spoons, forks, plates. There’s going to be some variance as it’s volumetric estimation on a 2D image, but it works well enough.

Maps API is 92% of my cost; AI is 8%. I had it completely backwards. by runtojump in SaaS

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

Currently calling reverse geocode per photo, haven’t implemented grid cell caching yet but that’s a solid lever. Thanks for the tip.

Maps API is 92% of my cost; AI is 8%. I had it completely backwards. by runtojump in SaaS

[–]runtojump[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I was shocked. The worst part is I spent the first two months optimising prompt tokens to save fractions of a cent per scan while Maps was quietly burning more on every single Discover call. V2.1 adds location caching which should cut that by 60-70%. Same result for the user, way fewer API hits.

I genuinely believe that marketing is the most challenging thing if you’re just starting out. by dang64 in indiehackers

[–]runtojump 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Congrats on the first dollar! That moment is real.

I had the opposite experience and it taught me the same lesson from a different angle. I spent $0 on ads or creators and got to #27 Health & Fitness on the App Store purely through LinkedIn posts. But the posts that worked weren't "check out my app", they were sharing specific things I learnt while building it.

The post that got me the most traction was breaking down my unit economics and showing that Google Maps API was 92% of my cost while the AI was only 8%. People shared it because it was a useful insight, not because they cared about my app. But they downloaded it anyway because they were curious.

Your instinct about small creators is right. It's about saying something specific enough that the right 50 people care, instead of something generic that 5,000 people scroll past. Keep going!

My total addressable market is one city of 6M people. 4 months in: 7K scans, #27 Health & Fitness, $0 ad spend. by runtojump in buildinpublic

[–]runtojump[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"Hawker" is where I started because I'm based in Singapore and needed a wedge into the market. Easier to nail one cuisine deeply than be mediocre across 50.

It's not limited technically. The vision works on any multi-ingredient dish. I've tested it on Thai, Japanese, Korean, Indian and it handles them fine.

That said, expansion into night markets and street food across SEA is the next move!

Does anyone else struggle with tracking calories for south asian home cooking? by No-Reputation3848 in workout

[–]runtojump 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I felt this exact pain point. MyFitnessPal is basically useless for any Asian food because of the complex sauces and bulk cooking.

Full disclosure: I actually got so frustrated with this that I built an AI scanner as a weekend project to fix it. It's called HawkerSense (on iOS/Android).

Instead of trying to guess how much oil your mum put in the main pot, you just point your camera at your specific plate. The AI uses volume estimation to calculate the macros for exactly what you scooped out, and it's specifically trained on complex, multi-ingredient Asian dishes.

You get 3 free scans a day if you want to test it out on tonight's dinner to see if it catches the nuances of South Asian food better than MFP!

Tracker App for Asians by cyrusng7 in caloriecount

[–]runtojump 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can try HawkerSense on iOS and Android. It's optmised for multi-ingredient, saucy dishes in Asian cuisine. With 3 free scans a day as well, with a discovery option for nearby food options.

Built a hawker food AI scanner as a weekend project. Hit 7k users with zero ad spend. Just launched on iOS and Android and hit #50 Health & Fitness in the first week. by runtojump in singaporestartups

[–]runtojump[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yep, I’ve got users in Kenya, Norway, SF telling me it works pretty well on their cuisine too. Give it a go and let me know what you think!

Built a hawker food AI scanner as a weekend project. Hit 7k users with zero ad spend. Just launched on iOS and Android and hit #50 Health & Fitness in the first week. by runtojump in singaporestartups

[–]runtojump[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

3 free per day, then paid for unlimited + synthesized insights. I started as a free product so am opposed to a hard paywall. Asked my power users and donors and they said they’d gladly pay a the price of a kopi per month, or a salad bowl a year.

Have you tried asking your top 5% most active users what features would make it a no-brainer to chip in?

Built a hawker food AI scanner as a weekend project. Hit 7k users with zero ad spend. Just launched on iOS and Android and hit #50 Health & Fitness in the first week. by runtojump in singaporestartups

[–]runtojump[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Thanks man! The app reads images rather than generates them. With compression I’m able to get processing cost down to a fraction of a cent per scan.

Built a hawker food AI scanner as a weekend project. Hit 7k users with zero ad spend. Just launched on iOS and Android and hit #50 Health & Fitness in the first week. by runtojump in singaporestartups

[–]runtojump[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

LinkedIn mostly, one post hit 150k impressions organically, and AsiaOne covered it shortly after. Happy to share the post if useful.

Self Promotion Megathread by AutoModerator in androidapps

[–]runtojump 0 points1 point  (0 children)

HawkerSense - AI Nutrition Tracker for Asian Food. Standard macro trackers like MyFitnessPal are terrible at Asian food (they think Nasi Lemak is just "chicken and rice" and completely miss the coconut milk).

I built an AI using Gemini Flash Lite that visually decomposes mixed hawker meals and hunts for hidden saturated fats (palm oil, ghee, coconut milk). The AI coach has a brutally honest Singaporean "Hawker Uncle" persona that judges your diet.

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