I see, also similar to Yuka. That can indeed work well for an established user base. I'd focus on food databases now, but reporting nutrients for items as a user is interesting for the future!
I was actually surprised about the GPT cost. The HN launch was about 3 dollars :)
If you are interested about the future, I added a form to collect feedback and stay in touch with users :) https://forms.gle/AN7e85MwqehPTQoE6
I was also thinking about monetization, but was more thinking of a SaaS for consumers. Do you happen to know the grocery industry to know more about their interests for the app? I mainly see it as a way for them to place ads in the app
That's a fair point! I can add a feature to remove items from the receipt. The option to manually add items bought earlier already exists. It's not about daily nutrition, but to understand the overall nutrition over let's say a week.
If they contain the meal name, you can do this :) Otherwise you can also manually add the meal name. I'm however not sure about the accuracy of entire meals yet
The main issue I see though is that if you're going to include processed foods, things will get complicated.
The names for various ingredients change in some countries ie: Sorbitol is also known as glucitol, D-Sorbitol, Sorbogem and Sorbo .
I use this example because Sorbitol is a sugar alcohol that affect FODMAP types.
You might do well having a chat with the Monash University, they have done a lot of work on this and have even published an app for people to check and see what sensitivities particular foods might have.
