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I built a Telegram bot that counts calories from food photos. It confidently called soup "berry compote"
My wife tracks her meals, and I watched her type "buckwheat, boiled, 100 g" into a calorie app for the hundredth time. Search, scroll, pick the wrong entry, fix the grams. Every meal, every day. At some point it's easier to teach a vision model to look at the plate.
So I built a Telegram bot. You send a photo of your food, it identifies the dishes, estimates portion weights, and replies with a card: calories, protein, fat, carbs. Text and voice work too ("2 eggs and a toast").
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