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Generative AI models have proven to application developers that combining the robust knowledge base and the right model allows users to provide users with user services – once relying on expensive professionals such as therapists or executive assistants – at a fraction of the price. Former Vice President of Fitness Company’s product JunaRami Alhamad has a similar nutrition with his new application AppleOr
The iOS application, which is launched today for North American users, is a well-designed application with a calorie traveler and a nutrition guide with an AI layer on top.
Allamad thinks that fitness applications like MyFitnessPal make nutrition boring and users have to manually look for food and give them to various foods. Instead, he thinks he just needs to talk (or enter) Alma’s assistants about what he ate, and the application invents doses and calorie intake through estimates. You can set these measures after the application also shows your calorie number.
Alternatively, you can take a photo of the meal and the AI algorithm identifies food. Such features are now available in applications such as Kholsa -sponsored Healtify and YC -sponsored Snapcalorie. However, apple uses design, diversity of input methods and key drivers of growth.
In addition to calorie tracking, you can ask the AI assistant to recommend a meal to meet the purposes of fiber and protein. In addition, you can upload a menu image and ask the AI assistant to recommend the right items to go.
The application also gives a score based on what you ate on a particular day for calories and macros. The application uses this score to give you tips to improve your diet.
In fact, since you chat with the AI assistant in the application, you learn preferences and make suggestions accordingly. You can see these insights in your profiles and edit them.
The company expects you to make money with a monthly subscription of $ 19 or $ 199.
The story behind the apple and the future plans
Alhamad, who built a push sports technology start and eventually sold it to the WHOOP, told Techcrunch that after exit 2022, he was thinking of something new in the field of health and nutrition. Sleep, no practical solution to track nutrition.
“In the last 10 years of my life, I have been constantly acquired and lost. I have been filled with applications like MyFitness for a long time and typed stuff to track food intake. When Chatgpt came around, just like many other people, I started using meals and kitchen support. However, it is not personalized. So last year, after I left WHOOP, I started thinking about this problem, ”Alhamad said.
Alhamad, who has become an entrepreneur at Menlo Ventures’ residence to build an apple, believes that there will be special companies in consumer space that use AI that focus on only one topic. The departure has so far raised $ 2.9 million from Menlo Ventures and the anthropic.
From a technical point of view, the company uses a mixture of models to achieve results. Alma noted that he was using Harvard Nutrition to retrieve the answers. The company said there were more people on employees that focus on nutritional knowledge to expand their data set. Alhamad said that the start -up company also wants to go beyond the United States to bring health knowledge throughout the world.
The apple team in the application is also based on food discovery. You can currently ask for recipes and get answers from the AI assistant, or not save them for future reference. The purpose of the application is to automatically pop food proposals based on your goals and preferences. In addition, it is possible to easily cook food in the chamber.
Chatbots like Chatgpt and Claude can do many things, but the user’s friction is that they must be properly called for the context every time. Applications such as apples try to remove the headache of writing long instructions through application functions. Samsung’s food application has acquired some features such as chamber tracking and recipe proposals Based on the items that are in the house last yearOr
Shawn Carolan, a partner at Menlo VC, said that facilitating food is an attractive solution for apple.
“If I eat 20 things a day, it’s hard to record each one by trying to find them in a list. You can only talk to her with apples and register it quickly. If something lasts for 30 seconds and a new application reduces this for a few seconds, it becomes a key driver, ”Carolan said.
He added that many people currently do not consult a nutritionist and that apple can provide them with easy access to such information.
“People spend thousands of dollars a month to lose weight. So the question is, if you had this perfect nutritionist in your pocket who can help you, you might use a drug-free approach to achieve your health goals, ”Carolan said.
