[sumeno]

What about when people give up because you massively underestimate their calories? Or when people develop eating disorders because you massively overestimate their calories?

If the goal is to learn then accurate information is important, although I suppose it's harder to get a VC to fund.

[wnorris510]

We do a lot of research on preventing eating disorders. As the article mentions we did not suggest she lose weight down to being underweight like other apps did.

Our app has the fruit and veg counters ABOVE the calorie meter on the dashboard. The reason for this is that maximization mindset (e.g. maximizing fruits and veg) is way healthier than a minimization mindset (e.g. minimizing calories or carbs).

We actually even tried to fully remove calories from the app at some point but we had a vast majority of users churn and decided it would be healthier for people who want calorie tracking to stick with our app by having it present, but requiring them to scroll past the features that promote a healthier mindset to get there. Feedback from users has been amazing that they've slowly started focusing more on fruits and veg.

[sumeno]

You are still selling a product that says it can count calories when fundamentally it cannot. The fact that people believe you and pay you money for it doesn't change that fact. You are lying to people.

> SnapCalorie is the first app where you can take a picture of any meal and get an accurate calorie count and nutrition in seconds

This is from your website. It is pure fiction. You admit as much in your first post

[wnorris510]

We published in the top conference of computer vision a peer reviewed study of our accuracy. On average we are twice the accuracy of a professional nutritionist. The product is free to try. If you're not happy with the accuracy, don't pay! We have around half a million people each month coming to our app and a vast majority stick around and are happy with the results.

If there's something we missed on your food shoot me a DM, I'd love to dig in.

[gadders]

The calorie counts on food packets themselves are +/- 20%, so it's inaccurate all the way down.

Some of the value also just comes from writing down what you eat, and noting the snacks, dressings, glasses of wine etc that you forget about but all add up.

[sumeno]

+/- 20% is way better than being off by 3x like in the example in this article

[ffsm8]

What about the people that would have given up on the diet without even trying because they just cba to do it "properly"?

Ultimately, there is no silver bullet in nutrition.

[sumeno]

There may not be a silver bullet but adding randomly generated numbers is not an improvement