Building a privacy-first health app - update #1

Introduction

OpenHealth is an open-source & end-to-end encrypted, nutrition & health tracking application, where the users can simply search or scan the food they consume and get weekly personalized insights about their nutrition intake.

Updates

1. I was able to complete the basic setup for the application which includes the setup of landing page, authentication, theming and other boilerplate stuff. Though I was able to build this quickly because it’s effectively a fork of Tracepath (now called OptiSentry).

Next steps

I’ve decided to complete the application prototype by September 10th 2023. The next steps for the project are as follows:

1. Figuring out how to use USDA’s FoodCentral REST API endpoints and testing them out. I plan to use it to store and display the nutritional information to the users.
2. Updating schema to reflect the structure need to capture a user’s food consumption and nutritional intake.
3. Figuring out how to use Google’s image labeling API. I plan to use it for the food scanning feature.
4. Figuring out how to implement end-to-end encryption for CRUD operations on this application.

Screenshots

Landing Page

Feature section of the landing page

Pricing section of the landing page

FAQ & CTA section of the landing page

Sign up page

Login page

Reset password page