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The generator AI models have proven to app developers that a combination of a strong knowledge base with the right model can enable them to provide their users’ services – once dependent on expensive professionals like therapists or executive assistants – a fraction of the price. Former VP HoopRami Alhamad, with his new app accepted the same in nutrition AlmaThe
The iOS app, launched today for North American users, a well -designed app with a calorie tracker and an AI layer on its top with a nutrition guide.
Alhamad thinks that fitness applications like MyfitnessPal make nutrient tracking exhausting, users have to manually search for dishes and input them for different types of food. Instead, he thinks that you should only talk (or type) to the almer AI assistant about what you have eaten and the app will determine the approval of the applications and calories through assumptions. The app also shows you calorie calculations you can adjust these measures.
Alternatively, you can take a picture of your meal and the AI algorithm will identify the dishes for you. These national features are already available in apps Open-baked healthy And YC-supported SnapkaloriThe However, Alma is banking in its design, various input methods and the main driver of the use of growth.
In addition to calorie tracking, you may ask the AI assistant to advise the food to meet your fiber and protein target goals. Also, you can upload a menu picture and ask the AI assistant to recommend appropriate items according to your goals.
The app also gives you a score, which is based on what you ate on a certain day in the case of calories and macros. The app uses that score to give you tips to improve your diet.
What’s more, you will learn your preferences as soon as you chat more with the AI assistant in the application and advise you accordingly. You can see these insights in your profiles and edit them.
The company expects to make money through a monthly subscription or an annual subscription of 199 $ 199.
Alma and the story behind the future plans
Alhamad, who created a sports tech startup called Push and finally sold it to the hoop, told TechCranch that he was thinking of doing something new in the case of health and nutrition after coming out of the hoop in 2022. According to him, the workout and tracker have sleep, there is no practical solution to track nutrients.
“For the last ten years of my life, I have constantly lost weight and reduced. I spent a long time on applications like Myfitnesspal, typing stuff for tracking my food. When the chatzept comes like a lot of people, I start using it for food planning and kitchen assistance. However, it was not personalized. So last year, after I left the hoop, I started thinking about this problem, “said Alhamad.
Alhamad, who became an entrepreneur in the Menlo Venture residence for the making of Alma, believes that in place of consumers, there will be special companies using AI that focuses only on one subject. Has collected $ 2.9 million from startup Menlo initiatives and anthropologists So far
On the technical front, the company is using a mixture of models to get results. Alma mentions that it is using knowledge to bring answers to Harvard nutrition. The company says that there are several people on the staff, focusing on nutritional knowledge to expand its data set. Alhamad said that the startup wants to see outside the United States to bring health knowledge around the world.
Alma team will also want to create food invention in the application. Currently, you can ask for recipes and get answers from the AI assistant, but you cannot save them for future references. The app wants to auto-populate food advice based on your goals and preferences. Also, it will easily have a way to cook food from what is in your pantry.
Chattabs like ChatzPT and Cloud can already do those many things but the friction for the user is that you need to properly request the context of the context. Applications like Alma are trying to remove the long prompt writing headache through the feature of the app. Samsung’s Food app Pantry has acquired some features like tracking and recipe advice Based on items in your home last yearThe
Menlo VC’s partner Shaun Carolan said that the ease of entry into your diet makes Alama an interesting solution.
“If I eat 20 things a day, it is hard to record each of them on the list. With the alma, you can only talk to it and register them quickly. If you take 30 seconds and a new application reduces it in just a few seconds, it becomes a key use driver, “said Carolan.
He added that now, many people are not consulting with any nutritionists and Alma can easily access them with this type of information.
“People are spending thousands of dollars a month to get injection to lose weight. So the question is, if you have this perfect nutritionist in your pocket who can help you with your goals, you can take a drug-free method to achieve your health goals, “said Carolan.
