Tracalify

An image of our landing page! The sign in button is non-functional, but is a proof of concept. We tried to implement sign in as well!
An image of the actual calorie tracker! And all parts here are functional.

Inspiration

We wanted to try and make a better version of all the apps you may see on Instagram or TikTok that come with a heavy subscription price, with a faster and free-er feel.

What it does

Tracalify takes your pictures and parses them through a JSON returned by the Google Gemini API, and displays the information in terms of sugars, fibers, proteins, and more! It also records your daily intake and total calories in a list view and neat circle diagram!

How we built it

We built it with mostly in the front-end with HTML, but used a bit of CSS and Java to help code other parts.

Challenges we ran into

The back-end could not connect to our front-end! We tried making other repos, local hosting on Render, and connecting both- but nothing ever came to fruition. We spend about 7 hours trying to get our calls parsed from our "back-end"- but nothing worked. Alas, the project still fully functions, and is exactly how we wanted it to LOOK- just not operate behind the scenes.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We figured out HOW to do this. On Friday night, we didn't have an idea- and didn't even have a shell picked out to code in. We collaborated on this website for around 15 hours total, and it looks exactly- even BETTER- than how we had envisioned it.

What we learned

We learned that front-end and back-end development are two entirely different worlds- and are pretty hard to connect. We tried our hardest with Render and multiple Github repositories, with the .jar files to back it up. But we also learned how to code in another environment, IntelliJ, and push from there to Github! Half of our team hasn't even finished UGA's preliminary coding course- and they were able to do so much.

What's next for Tracalify

We'd love to make this a REAL app- and hopefully run ads on it to turn a profit while keeping it free! This was all just stuff we came up with today and just wanted to see if we could implement- and we did. We wanted to make an app that would help everyone- and we did.