Naughty Bowel

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Inspiration

It started with a phone call from one of our members’ mother. She said that she would love to be able to track her poop and how it changes day after day. That got us thinking about the benefits of tracking what comes in of our bodies and also, most importantly, what comes out. Our stool is another indication for our health, especially our digestive system’s health, and tracking it and how it changes allows us to realize what is going on in our bodies and thus, can help prevent diseases or create an early diagnosis.

What it does

Our app tracks your stool, specifically the type according to the Bristol Stool Form Chart, which has been proven to be effective in identifying stool types, the color, and the amount. It also tracks your consumption of several food types and the amount of water and caffeine you consume. We also provide information about the parameters that we are tracking and why you should track those parameters. Afterwards, it charts your input to let you see your input in a single glance. It also provides analysis on your stool and consumption habits and gives advice about your food and drink consumption depending on the data you inputted on your stool habits. Finally, we added the feature of searching for the nearest toilet.

How we built it

We use figma to built the prototype of our app.

Challenges we ran into

At first we thought that we are the first to discover this idea. Unfortunately, that is not the case. There are already several apps whose function is to track your stool habits. Therefore, our challenge is to improve our product into something more than just a tracker.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

In our research, we discover that many of the apps do not have an analysis function, that is, they simply track your stool habits and do not give any viable advice regarding it. We improve upon that by adding our analysis function, which takes your stool habits data and gives you advice on how to create better stool habits. We also discovered that most of the apps for tracking stool habits do not have a toilet searching function, which is very useful for people with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) who cannot delay going to the toilet when they feel the urge to. It is also very useful in general, because we all have had the experience of wanting to go to the toilet in an unfamiliar location and not being able to find it.

What we learned

We learned a lot about stools and what the different types indicate about your body, which, to be honest, everyone should know already. This shows how much people are lacking in this information and highlights how much our tracker is really needed. We also learned a lot about teamwork in an online platform, since we build this product in a 100% online environment. Finally, most of us learned how to use Figma, since we had never used that platform before.