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I'm building a FOSS calorie tracker! (github.com)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by hessnake to c/[email protected]

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Many of my friends use calorie trackers like Lose it! or MyFitnessPal. And I've heard many complaints about them locking basic functionality behind a subscription. The straw that broke the camel's back was not allowing barcode scanning without a sub. I've been looking for a meaty, pun intended, side project to pick up and decided to try to do some good while saving some people money!

Built using Tauri in order to use Angular for the GUI and get mobile platform support.
Data is stored on-device using SQLite.
Initially I'm only targeting Android, I'd love to target iOS too but I don't own any Apple devices to dev+test on.
I'd say it's a "late alpha" as of right now. It has most but not all functionality, but has only been tested by me so there are likely small bugs that need to be found.
My wife really likes manatees, hence the name.
I've commissioned an artist for a logo so that should be coming by February.

Would love to hear people's thoughts! Currently you'd have to build the app yourself, though I do have an item on my to-do list to generate signed APKs via a github action. Mostly I'm just looking to start spreading the word now and hopefully get some good feature requests or bug reports. If you've read this far, thanks for your time!

Edit: I figured out how to generate signed APKs via GitHub so I have a v0.2.0 Pre-Release up. It's already led me to finding out there are some bugs on Samsung phones that don't happen on my Pixel so please submit any issues you encounter! Thank you!

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Please think about localization and various labeling standards and such. I live in Japan and bought a subscription to Chronometer when MyFitnessPal decided to enshitify. I was submitting labels with barcodes and information in their appropriate boxes (protein, carbs, etc.) but they rejected it because the image (required picture) had non-English text. Apparently there is (or at least was) a manual review process and they rejected everything not in English. Further, it took either weeks or months (I forget now) for the first response to my submitted data to come so I kept putting all this time into something utterly useless. They lost me as a customer as well.

[–] otterpop 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's really sad to hear. I also switched to Chronometer but live in the US so didn't run into that issue. Have you found a counter that supports Japanese as well as English?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I just gave up.