Our inspiration for this idea comes from our families with diabetes as we believe it is important to recognise whether we need to make changes in our lifestyles before it is too late. This is very relevant during lockdown and COVID as diabetes is one of the most common comorbidities and it is very easy to become stuck in the same routine.
We built our app using python to train a machine learning algorithm, flask, and heroku. We're engineers that use python for data processing so it was fun learning how to use flask and heroku, as well as how html and css work to put together an app.
We faced some challenges in heroku and css as we were new to them, but with the help of github and useful sources, we were able to overcome these challenges and learn along the way.
We'd love to develop this further for users with diabetes to input their food intake to calculate their macros to determine whether they are eating the right amount/kinds of food. We'd also aim to create a community that can support each other alongside this!
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