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Smart meal plan generator and food tracker
Chris Messina
Meta Nutrition — Smart meal plan generator and food tracker
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Meta Nutrition is an automated meal plan generator and food tracker made for beginners and experts.
Create custom foods, personalize your weekly meals, and calculate your nutrients targets to crush your fitness and wellness goals
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Paul Orlando
This is such a useful product. Thanks for building this!
Simone Zienna
@porlando Glad you liked it! :)
Dima Grebennikov
Nice looking service. There is an issue I faced with diet plan, I have selected a vegan diet type but the app offered me to fish, meat, and milk meals.
Austin Marks
@ma1ish Thank you! Thank you for pointing that out, we will get on fixing that ASAP
Simone Zienna
@ma1ish Hi Dima, sorry you were getting those results! We rolled out a ton of new changes. If you want to give it a second try we'll offer you a whole month of PRO for free!
Cody McLain
Where is the IOS app?
Austin Marks
@codymclain We don't have one yet but we will be starting development on IOS and Android apps shortly!
Anna Filou
I like the onboarding (especially how you ask people to enter their current and ideal body fat percentage by choosing the relevant pictures) but I wish it would tell me I need to register before I actually gave it all that info. I was expecting to get some sort of demo since you didn't mention I have to sign up. Now I feel a bit turned off ^-^;
Austin Marks
@anna_0x I'm glad you like the on-boarding process and I'm sorry if it was misleading when it came to registration. We have a mini demo of the meal generator on our website if you want to check that out. It just generates 1 meal and naturally is much more limited compared to the full version but you don't need to register to use it :)
Anna Filou
@austinmeta I see, I hadn't noticed the mini demo! :) By the way... The landing page looks a bit weird on Safari. It's like a lot of elements don't have margins and the text is cut off because it overflows.
Jeroen De Prest
I think it is kind of broken. On a "balanced plan" I am getting a breakfast of 10k Kcal even though my total for the entire day is 3.4k Kcal
Simone Zienna
@jeroendeprest The algorithm is always improving and we try to generate more and more accurate meal plans. Even if the nutrients are off you can still easily customize the plan and add your custom foods to reach your nutrition targets!
Simone Zienna
@jeroendeprest Hi Jeroen, our algorithm got much better and I'm sure it will cover your needs perfectly! If you wanna give it a second chance, we'll offer you a whole free month free for the PRO version :)
Sparky uk
Looks great. I absolutely hate vegetables, which of course is the only thing you can eat to lose weight! Is there a way to tell the plan generator to skip certain foods?
Austin Marks
@sparkyuk11 Thank you! You hate veggies? oh no! Right now we are working on implementing restrictions so you can do exactly that. We previously had it in our signup form but need more time to test it out and make sure it functions as intended.
Anna Filou
@sparkyuk11 a comment on "...vegetables, which of course is the only thing you can eat to lose weight" Um, that's not actually true. You can eat anything and lose weight as long as you consume less energy than you use ^-^ You could technically lose weight by only eating ice cream as long as you follow that rule. Of course it would cause all sorts of problems for your body but you would lose weight.
Sparky uk
@anna_0x I know, I was being silly :) However, I feel it only correct that I try your Ice cream suggestion in the name of fact checking....
Ashley H
Well, I tried the generate plan button, got rather random results and lunch matched my plan 0%. Also had to remove cilantro eeew.
Simone Zienna
@softsound Sorry to hear that Ashley. Try to regenerate the meal plan, it should give you better results. We are constantly improving our algorithms but sometimes the diet generated might be a bit off. You can either regenerate the plan as many times as you like and/or edit it by adding your own custom or favorite foods to make it more appealing to your taste!
Simone Zienna
@softsound Hi Ashley, so sorry again you had a poor experience! The meals are now much better and yummy! We'll give you a one month FREE pro account if you wanna try it again :D
Margot Birbeck
Well done! Love this. Really wanted to use this to build a meal plan for my 10 year old daughter’s but have to be 13 years +.
Simone Zienna
@margot_birbeck Very happy you liked it! Yeah unfortunately it's 13+ but we are thinking of supporting meal plans for kids too in the near future!
Andrew Zeivald
I just tried it and looks like something went wrong. It says I have to eat 3400 kcal per day to lose 1kg/week. I’m 179cm 90kg with lightlyactive activity.
Simone Zienna
@andrew_zeivald Thank you for letting us know! Just fixed it!
Simone Zienna
Thanks for hunting us @chrismessina and hello PH peoples! With myriads of misinformation and fad diets, knowing what to eat and staying on track with your nutrition and diet can be very challenging and time consuming. My name is Simone Zienna, and I am the founder of Meta Nutrition. As a certified personal trainer and a nutritionist I wanted to set out and build and app that handles the complexities of providing people meal plans that fit their goals and are aligned with their dietary preferences. We can’t wait for you to try it and look forward to hearing your thoughts and questions!
Chaker
Beautiful UI for something that will definitely improve our lives and health
Simone Zienna
@shaker_curious Glad you like it! :D
Ian O'Brien
Very interesting. Something to note is that I am 6'0" but the UI wouldn't let me submit with 0 in the inches column. It also allowed me to be 5'23", and 6'(-12)"!
Simone Zienna
@ian_o_brien Whoops thank you for pointing this out! We'll fix it asap! Hope you liked the rest of the app :)
Simone Zienna
@ian_o_brien We just fixed the issue with the inputs if you wanna give it a second try!
Bud Ross
Awesome tool!! I'm getting back into positive health habits and this is a great tool.
Simone Zienna
@bud_ross I'm glad you found it helpful! We keep on rolling out new features and improving the platform so check for updates often :D (PS. Recipes are gonna be available soon)
Simone Zienna
@bud_ross Hi Bud! I hope you kept up your positive health habits, if not that's fine too :) We'd like to give you a free one month PRO account for you to try if you want to check the platform out again
Sebastien Pastor
Hey ! nice on-boarding. Just found the screen "Goal info" confusing with the mention "Speed kg/week" being readable even though the goal "Balanced nutrition" is selected.
Gaia
I really liked the onboarding/profile making procedure! The layout it's a little bit confusing once the mealplan is created and adding new foods it's not possible.. maybe something to work on? and congrats on the launch.
Simone Zienna
@gaialiciabalossi Thank you for the feedback! Which part of the layout did you find confusing? You can add foods from the 'Explore foods tab' or create custom foods. Then you'll be able to add them to your meal plan. But I can see why that's not intuitive! Will make it more user friendly :)
Ethan Glover
I have to say that I've seen this 100 times before. Nothing special here. It did absolutely hijack my browser. Trying to add a food to a meal shot CPU usage and memory on chrome to 100. I'm still waiting for it to totally recover. Maybe get JS off the client-side. Wappalyzer suggests this is using React/Next but certainly not properly. It crashed when I tried to delete the account. That tab alone was using over 4GB of RAM.
Simone Zienna
@eglove Sorry you had a bad experience with it. We will look into these issues and fix them asap!
Ethan Glover
@simonemeta Calorie and nutrition trackers I think are one of the hardest problems to tackle. Because A) Calories are an outdated measurement, those numbers come from setting food on fire and seeing how hot it burns. B) There is no universal number to watch. And C) The way the FDA categorizes nutrition is inconsistent. Why is isomaltulose considered a sugar and allulose a carb? Both could be in either category. Both are perfectly healthy and hard to put into a group with unhealthy sugars and carbs... At the end of the day I think simple trackers like this don't do anything more than a food journal. Writing down what you eat and noting whether you think it's "healthy" or "unhealthy" is just as effective. If I were building this, I wouldn't show any numbers and focus on the diets. Anyway, separate your components out (Stripe is loading on the profile creation page? Why?) and move JS to server-side. Fixing performance problems will help you out a lot.
Simone Zienna
@eglove I agree that calories and nutrition estimates for pretty much any label or foods are not accurate; however, just by having a metric to monitor people become way more aware of what and how they eat which eventually leads them to make healthier dietary decisions. We tackle the simple tracker problem by generating actual custom diet plans for the users. That's our distinguishing factor. Other apps make you do a ton of work tracking foods but don't provide any suggestion for how or what you should eat. We constantly speak with dietitians and consult research studies to provide very tailored nutritional advice. The automated tracker is just a plus! For the performance issues, we are constantly improving and making the platform faster and lighter for the user. We just switched to NextJS to improve speed, but there is still much work to do :)
Александр
Классный продукт! Надо только подкорректировать сбалансированное питание.
Seb Hjalmar
Need to check this ou!
Oskar Mendez
Looks like a great web app. Did you use Glide to build it? Also, I found a bug. When exploring foods, the page number (page 3 of 30) displays in the middle of all the food options. Text stacked on top of text
Austin Marks
@oskar_mendez Thanks! We used React & Next. I'll take note of the bug, we are currently working on cleaning up a lot of those minor issues so we really appreciate you giving us feedback. What browser were you using?
Dmitry Myadzelets
Продукт замечательный, по задумке! Ребята, из получившегося меню на день вижу килокалории и ЖБУ, но не могу найти витамины и минералы. Надо вручную складывать по каждому продукту? Продукт поддерживается? В паре мест не было реакции интерфейса и вот сейчас это: "An unexpected error has occurred.", без совета что делать дальше.