Veggy

Inspiration

Are you vegan or vegetarian? Or did you ever try this lifestyle for a while? If you didn’t, well then the fact that “eating quality plant-based food lowers the risk of death by 30%” might inspire you to consider this lifestyle 😉 But if you are vegans or vegetarians you are certainly aware of these pains:

• **You have to calculator nutrients you need and it’s time-costly 🤯
• You have to find the right food and it’s can be very expensive because of the hype (viva marketers!😐)
• You’ve tried these new diets and….it’s tastes just awful 😖** As a result, you can sometimes give up on eating healthy food because to grab some pasta or vegetarian pizza it’s more simple option OR you become obsessed with the idea to calculate your nutrients, and your friends know you as “a guy who’s talking about food every time”🤪. Well, we’ve decided with the team that we can solve these pains, and we’ve developed Veggy. Veggy - is the application that creates a data-driven tailored diet just with exactly the nutrients you need.

What it does

You could think about Veggy as your personal health coach. But it’s much cheaper 😏 Veggy will create personalized diet based on two types of data that users should provide:

1. Detailed questionnaires about:

• Physical characteristics
• Activities
• Habits
• Sleeping conditions
• Allergy
• Health tests (coming soon)

2. 7-days food diary (to look through the meals the user’s used to eat)

The program will process this data, define the needed nutrients for the user and will match these lists of nutrients with the database of tasty and affordable recipes. As a result the customer will get:

• Recommended goals based on the data she / he / they provided (correct weight, correct blood pressure, rid of the bad eating habits etc.)
• A tailored diet for 2 weeks
• Support from our nutritionists
• Daily notifications with the meals to eat and evening check up
• Tracking the results
• Support current healthy lifestyle

How we built it

For MVP we’ve decided to build a chatbot using Coggle, Pipe Technology and Telegram to illustrate customer journey and the values they will get. First, we wrote two scripts for vegan and vegetarian. Second, we created a Coggle diagram based on the scenario. Then we created a Telegram bot. Finally, we linked the diagram to the bot via Pipe Technolodgy. The link constantly translates the diagram directly into chat messages and answer buttons. Also, the diagram updates are being pushed to the bot in one-click.

Challenges we ran into

Well, definitely, we need to validate our idea because it’s just an assumption. The main challenge for us was how can we create the right diet for a person. So we decided to ask nutritionists and healthcare specialist and invited them to the team. As a result, we found the solution that we can make conclusions regarding needed nutrients based on current person’s lifestyle and eating habits. Facebook bots are too complicated for prototyping. Pipe Technology limits messages to 100 characters and answers — to 20 characters. These limitations required a bit adoption for the original scenario.

Accomplishments that we are proud of

We’ve created a chatbot and you can test it, thus, we’ve seen that’s a feasible idea.

What we learned

The mentors sessions were significantly helpful for us because we got useful insights regarding matching nutrients with database of recipes.

What's next for Veggy

We hope Veggy will be a complete application that will relieve vegans and vegetarians from those pains and not just keep their lifestyle healthy and also simple and enjoyable.

Built With

• coggle
• pipe-technology
• telegram