So, my fiance wanted a health and fitness app, to track meals, exercise routines, manage upcoming events that disrupt her routine, accommodates for sick days, keeps data private and of course, has a digital pet.
So I made 1, featuring a digital pet (choose wisely), which evolves with you. The idea being, which creature's nature do you want to embrace? Do you want to be proud like a dragon (boost your self confidence, be strong), or gentle like a panda (handle stress better, lower anxiety). Your choice affects EVERYTHING, from the degree of exercise expected, to how it engages with you. I did it that way, because animals seem to have life figured out, we're still struggling, so embody the spirit of a panda to keep calm, humble and fun.
It includes a personal AI trainer (adjustable kindness, strictness, or dynamic for both, based on your behavior), so you can keep yourself on track and ask questions. If you want to go out partying, ask your trainer, they'll say yes or no and give you a limit.
Pre-emptive discipline. If an event is pre-scheduled, it'll adjust your routine leading up to it, to compensate. Eg. B-day party, you'll eat and drink more, so you estimate the difference and it'll adjust your plan for you leading up to it, so when the event comes, you dont feel guilty, because you dont have to work your way back to the goal, instead, you already accounted for it.
Calorie and macro tracking, that's kinda a given, snap a pic of food, it confirms and enters the stats.
Smart-device linking, like a smart watch or smart scale, so your biometrics are recorded and your pet and trainer will respond if something isnt right, eg. you suddenly get stressed and heartrate spikes, get a nice warm buzz from a panda on your wrist, with a kind message to keep you relaxed and no need to manually enter your weight or BMI, just stand on your scale, let the app track it (visibly, or hidden for the people who get OCD about number tracking).
Household tracking. It's not just you, you have a household too, they affect the groceries you buy and your routine. Either granularly, if both are on a journey, or down to just tracking average grocery consumption.
Meal-prep, either ahead of time for x days, or spur of the moment, based on your macros and your household's macros (if tracking). That's something I found important for it, it tracks your grocery receipts to see what you have in stock, so when you want a recipe for dinner, it can give you a recipe you have the ingredients for! No more "steak and asparagus" during seasons when asparagus is really expensive... It can also prep a grocery list for you, keeping it cheap based on your actual receipts, not just 'this should be cheap'.
Everything is stored locally and optionally backed up to your own cloud backup, I dont want user data, please and thank you.
Still alot I want to add, like a menstrual cycle tracker, routine planner, sleep tracker, tracking buddy, leaderboard, sharing, enhanced mental health, etc. so any thoughts of desired features, lemme know!
Another question, current setup is BYOK, or default to using your device's native AI (gemini for android, siri(gemini) for apple). That good, or would you like the option to pay for my api, so it runs enterprise channels that keeps data private?
Is this something you'd pay for (once off if you go BYOK, I hate subscriptions)? Or if it were open-source, would you still use it? Android is simple, build the apk and run it, but ios dev builds expire in 7 days... Which can be a pain. I want to keep it free, so if it were free and ad-free, would you donate, so I can maintain the apple signing license and put it on the various app stores?
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I strongly suspect you’re throwing subtle shade at me — my profile picture is exactly a panda 🐼. And I’d like to point out that a long, long time ago, pandas were not called pandas. Back then they were known as the Iron‑Eating Beasts, the war mount of Chi You. They were extremely fierce and ferocious.😱
Actually, was because I have a panda pen, but I see your confusion 😂
Oh okay! That makes sense now 😂