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by nonameiguess 601 days ago
I can understand the excitement in principle that you made an app with little effort, but there is no reason this can't be a static page with a table of animals and their average body fat percentages. Users don't need to enter any information and you don't even need a backend. They can simply go the page and find the animal from the table that most closely matches their own bodyfat percentage.

The data is also dubious. I'm not going to enter every possible number to see what comes back, but the number reported here for cows is definitely wrong. Insects have cells that can store nutrients, but not adipose tissue in the familiar mammal sense that we have. There is no way to know how much fat they're actually storing at any given moment versus other nutrients.

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Users could still enter the information. But instead of input form it would be browsers 'find in page' search bar.