Inspiration
This was inspired after Sumaya (one of the authors) lost over 55lbs. in one year thanks to Intermittent Fasting. She wrote a blog post that has generated 300K+ visitors and global interest in a way to help people easily get started with IF.
What it does
Fast with Sumaya is a AI assistant to help interested in Intermittent Fasting (IF) learn more and setup a personalized fasting schedule.
How we built it
Python, MongoDB, API.ai, and Facebook Messenger
Challenges we ran into
Fast with Sumaya is a Facebook Messenger bot in production mode. Facebook requires anywhere from 3 days to 2 weeks for approval.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
It works! It's an easy way to get started with Intermittent Fasting.
What we learned
There are so many opportunities in leveraging AI to make our Fast with Sumaya bot smarter, more engaging and powerful.
What's next for Fast with Sumaya
Building out the feature set and making it public to 300K people who have expressed interest to us in Intermittent Fasting!
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