- Overview -
- History and Origin -
The concept for the app emerged when I started my diet journey. I was at a mall with my mother and realized I wouldn't have time to go home and prepare my afternoon snack. That's when the idea of downloading an existing nutrition app came up. However, to my surprise, none of them met my immediate needs. None could perform a simple equivalence search, and the database was excessively large and confusing. Thoughts like 'What a mess!', 'Why is choosing simple foods so difficult?', and 'I just want to know the calories of my meal and find options' were running through my mind.
As a programmer, I thought: 'It can't be that only I have this problem... I'll develop something for this myself!' This idea only strengthened as fitness recipes started appearing on my social media feeds. I always wanted to know how I could fit those recipes into my plan, thus facilitating communication with my nutritionist at the time and making the diet even more enjoyable. I wanted the freedom to look for options. Between this thought and the actual start of the project, a year passed, partly due to insecurity, partly due to lack of time, and prioritizing other things at that moment. My initial idea was to create a mobile app, but since I'm not a mobile developer, I would have had to learn many concepts to make this project possible. Anyway, this first stage was useful for creating a layout prototype using Figma.
Realizing that a mobile app would be challenging at the moment, I decided to focus on the technology I have the most mastery over: web development. This facilitated development, but it was still not an easy task. Being the user, designer, developer, and QA of your own software is a challenging task. There were numerous changes to the database, front-end, back-end, and the data source used (food table). Also, being a personal project, I looked for ways to host everything for free, at least initially.
After two years of planning, prototyping, stops, restarts, changes of ideas, libraries, and technologies, I finally arrived at this first version that satisfied me as a developer and user.
- Our Mission -
Our mission is straightforward: to create a tool that helps people cultivate healthier eating habits. We want diets to become more rewarding through the information available here. Furthermore, we aim to reclaim the true meaning of the word 'diet,' which originates from Latin and means 'way of life.' We are committed to transforming each individual's nutritional journey into something more than just a dietary restriction, but rather a balanced and satisfying lifestyle.
- Key Features -
- The first and only software that searches for equivalent options by analyzing the ingredients of a recipe, rather than simply counting macros.
- Indexes and organizes recipes from Instagram and TikTok, giving due credit to content creators.
- Unlike most software, our list of available foods is lean, making the search for the desired food faster and free of doubt.
- Facilitates the search for macros - Just enter the desired amounts of each nutrient, and suitable options will appear, both for foods and recipes.
- Enables food search - If you're craving something specific and lack ideas, we're here to help, presenting recipe options.
- Offers total calorie search - If the concern is only with calories, we can provide options that fit this criterion.
- Direct comparison between foods - Allows evaluating foods individually and comparing them to make more interesting and personalized substitutions for you.
- Allows you to contribute to our database by reporting new foods.