The Temporary Model Models of Application developers have proven that combining the base of strong knowledge and the correct model can enable them to provide user services – once dependent on assigned professionals such as therapists or executives – in a small part of the price. Former Vice President of the Fitness Company whoopRami Al -Hamad, has a nutritional -like with its new application Pain.
The iOS application, which is launched for users in North America today, is a good design with calories tracker and a nutrition guide with the AI layer above it.
Alhamad believes that fitness applications such as MyFitnessPal make nutrition are boring, as users should manually search for dishes and insert them to different types of meals. Instead, it is believed that you should just speak to (or write to) AI AI auxiliary about what you ate, and the application will discover parts and consume calories through estimates. You can adjust these measures after the application offers you a number of calories as well.
Instead, you can take a picture of your meal, and the AI algorithm will determine the dishes for you. These features are already available in applications such as the YCOLSA and Snapcalorie supported by YC. However, Alma belongs to its design, a variety of input methods, and ease of use as a major growth engine.
Besides calorie tracking, you can ask AI’s assistant suggestion for meals to achieve fiber and protein goals. In addition, you can download the list of the menu and ask the AI assistant recommended elements according to your goal.
The app also gives you a degree, which is based on what you ate on a specific day in calories and macro units. The app uses the result to give you tips on improving your diet.
What’s more, while chatting more with artificial intelligence assistant in the application, it learns your preferences and gives you suggestions accordingly. You can see these ideas in your personal files and modify them as well.
The company expects to earn money through a monthly subscription of $ 19 or an annual subscription of $ 19.
The story is behind pain and future plans
Alhamad, who built a Push sports technology company, told whoop, Techcrunch that he was considering doing something new in the field of health and nutrition after leaving newspapers in 2022. According to him, while there are followers of training and sleep exercise, no There is a practical solution to track feeding.
Over the past ten years of my life, I have gained constant weight and lost. I have spent a long time on applications such as MyfitnessPal, and wrote things to track food. When ChatGPT came just like many other people, I began to use it to plan meals and support the kitchen. However, he was not personal. So last year, after I left, I started thinking about this problem. “
Alhamad, who has become an entrepreneur in Menlo Ventures to build pain, believes that in the consumer area, there will be specialized companies that use artificial intelligence focusing on only one topic. The startup has raised $ 2.9 million from Menlo Ventures and Anthropic to date.
On the technical front, the company uses a mixture of models for results. Alma indicated that he uses knowledge of Harvard University to bring answers. The company said it has many people who focus on food knowledge to expand its data set. Alhamad said that the startup also wants to look beyond the United States to bring health knowledge from all over the world.
The Alma team would like to build on the detection of food in the application as well. Currently, you can order recipes and get answers from the artificial intelligence assistant, but you cannot save them to refer to them in the future. The app wants to make automatic food suggestions based on your goals and preferences. In addition, it will also have a way to easily cook what you have in the store.
Chatbots such as ChatGPT and CLAUDE can already make a lot of these things, but friction for the user is that you have to claim it properly with the context each time. Applications such as Alma tries to get rid of a headache to write long claims through the application features. The Samsung’s Food app has gained some features, such as store tracking and recipe suggestions Based on the elements you have at home last year.
Sean Carolian, the Menlo VC partner, said that the ease of entering your food makes Alma an attractive solution.
“If you eat 20 things a day, it is difficult to register each of them by trying to find it in a list. With pain, you can just talk to it and register all of that quickly. Carolian said:“ If something takes 30 seconds and reduces a new application from that to A few seconds, becomes a major driver for use. “
He added that at the present time, many people do not consult a dietitian, and can give them easily to access this type of information.
“People spend thousands of dollars per month to get injections to lose weight. So the question is that if you have this ideal nutritionist in your pocket that can help you in your goal, you may be able to follow a drug -free approach to achieve your health goals.”
