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food tracking apps
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 9 years (2017–2025), in 3 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with food tracking apps, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 4 complaints
- Learns a paid plan is required only after signing up2025-01-21
- Subscription requirement only revealed after creating an account, a dark pattern2025-01-21
- Slow screen updates cause repeated mistaken taps when adding food2018-06-25
- Nutrient values shown per serving, which differ between brands, packages and countries2017-11-19