Dietary tracking service
My idea is to provide an online tracking mechanism for diabetics, dieters, and the health conscious. Right now, the only way for these individuals to keep track of their caloric and carbohydrate intake is with a paper and pencil. This would give a digital view to it.
Q1: Would you use a service like this? And if so what features would you be interested in?
Idea Description
Basically, our belief is that a large factor in the weight problem in this country is that people simply do not realize how much they eat in a day. We would like to integrate with online databases to get information on caloric and carbohydrate counts at various restaurants. Users would then be able to log in and add these counts to their profile, letting them know how many calories they have consumed that day or week and how many they have left, based on a 2000 scale.
This system could also be used with individuals that are diabetic. A good portion of them need to keep track in pen and paper of what they eat in a day. If they had a way to go back to that information in a useful interface.
What will you do if you win $10,000 for this idea?
We have already started looking at how to turn this into a reality. We would use the $10,000 to create logos, a frontend, infrastructure, and advertise.
We have already started investigating front-end designers; the design should cost roughly $5,000. The logos should cost between $300 and $400. The rest of the money can be used to buy domain names, and an initial server, as well as marketing and advertising.
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I don't know if you have heard of fitday.com or mydailyplate.com? These sites have calorie counters that track how many calories/fat.carbs you have consumed in a day... I don't know if this is similar to your idea?