Friendly Food Tracker
Diet tracking as easy as texting a friend
This is a significant milestone. After a long hiatus on this project due to redundancy and career changes in real life as a result of Covid times, I finally got back round to this project.
In October 2021 I managed to start doing 20hr+ weeks again.
The app has been completely re-done from ground up and progress has been good. I'm probably way past the point of MVP but I'm using the app daily so if nothing else, I have a free food tracking app that works exactly how I want it to work :)
Anyway... here's a public milestone - the landing page for the project is now live - please check it out.
https://friendlyfoodtracker.com
Closed public beta release will be available before February 2022.
Distributed the app for iOS via Test Flight.
I learned a lot that I hadn't been aware of;
- I needed to do more to educate users on the point scoring. In fact, onboarding in general needs more TLC.
- I needed to educate better that some similar foods are healthier than others
- A bug that I knew existed and could be tolerated was more frustrating for users than I envisaged
- Overall, my hypothesis of simply tracking food isn't enough to change behaviour. Aspects of gamification should be introduced to try and nudge users.
- People didn't like the name 'Lhotse' - there was confusion on how to pronounce it so I should consider renaming the product.
I reckon chatbots have so much potential on App but haven't yet gained traction. They're much more intuitive than forms so I wanted to learn more about them to see if I could leverage them for my diet tracking app.
I done a course on Diaglowflow (Google's NLP engine) and decided that this was worth trying.
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