Pravin Halady

Hello Product Hunt! I’d like to introduce you to Vikara, a chatbot nutritionist. Vikara is designed to help people learn healthy eating habits and maintain a healthy body weight in the long-term. I’m seeking feedback from early adopters as well as gauging interest from seed investors. Who is Vikara meant to help? Vikara can benefit anyone interested in developing long-term healthy eating...

My product is Vikara, a chatbot I built to help prevent disordered eating. It was a long process for me, but I'll try to briefly capture how I came up with the idea: In 2021, I went through a 2-3 month period of high anxiety during which I snacked 'a lot'. That led me into reading research papers on emotional eating and binge eating, and the positive effects of mindful eating, mood regulation...

Which group of users do you think need your service (benefits-with-friends) the most? Moms? Seniors? Students? Small-business owners? Go talk to them one-by-one as Paul Graham suggests in this essay. http://paulgraham.com/ds.html

Some time ago, I used a service that automatically creates a pitch deck including graphics based on prompts. I used it to create a sample investor deck for my app (a nutritionist chatbot). It was impressive for a start, but nowhere near production quality. Unfortunately, I was unable to find the exact link from my browsing history.

I suppose it depends on the product or service you are building, doesn't it? e.g. A writer would benefit more from Twitter whereas someone who is selling Notion templates may benefit more primarily from YouTube for showcasing the product but then also use Twitter to explain their design thinking process and cross-promote.

The choices you have mentioned are not mutually exclusive - I expect AI to replace certain jobs completely. E.g. Say Google has built a massive data center somewhere. I'm sure some day AI can fully automate the build-out and operation of the data center with no human involvement. On the other hand, I'm not entirely sure AI, short of AGI, will be able to independently observe human needs in...

Only if Google is complacent. Google's LLMs & infra are far more capable. Microsoft's Bing integration plan will likely provide the impetus for Google to start releasing their models. I don't think Google will sit by and watch ChatGPT eat their lunch.

I would choose the ability to maintain an inner sense of calm in all situations.

As to whether it's necessary, I'll go with MKBHD when it comes to AI-generated content: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gNauGdOkro

I attended precisely one, the alumni annual event.

Based on my most recent experience reaching out to 50+ people with personalized emails, I got one solid meeting, so 2% for me.

I'm building a nutrition chatbot I use ChatGPT to explore the quality of its responses for nutrition-related queries, and so far it's pretty accurate. E.g. I asked it to list the macronutrients for a 2-egg omelette and it gave me data that matched the 'official' USDA database, so I'm impressed. I plan on exploring GPT-2 API.

I'm personally not a micro-planner. I mentally follow the Eisenhower matrix a.k.a. 'Urgent vs Important' matrix. I just jot down the tasks in Google Sheets and prioritize them. I have all kinds of planner apps but for some reason just gravitate back to Google Sheets, probably because I use Google Docs a lot. Now I'm about to start using Notion, so....