Sipped Idea - The Begining

I was asked if I drank ever whiskey every day. I knew the answer was no but I was not sure how much whiskey I drank during the week. I began to think about logging my drink on the classic excel spreadsheet, however, I thought that someone surely had made an app for this... A drinks trackers app, a drinks diary or alcohol tracker.

As I expected there were many apps out there. However, most of them were sober apps to quit drinking. Digging further into the App Store I found a couple more tracker applications but they took to long to add drinks to accumulate my drinks data. You had to add the volume of the drink, the alcohol percentage and after all of that, it was hard to find a meaningful interpretation of all this data in a summary or graph format.

Surely I could take a photo of my whiskey in front my me and using my iPhone, through machine learning could recognise it.

Thus the idea for Sipped began.

(The app was going to be called Nowell after Alexander Nowell who accidentally invented the beer bottle.)