Log food by snapping the label and telling your bot how much you ate
He built a diet tracker app on Grok Bot and gave it a coach. He photographs the nutrition label, says how much he ate and the bot works out the numbers before logging.
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@AccessTips on X · 2026-10-20
Written in our own words. Credit to the original author. Link checked 2026-10-20.
What they did
He built a diet tracker app on Grok Bot and gave it a coach. He photographs the nutrition label, says how much he ate and the bot works out the numbers before logging.
Result (as claimed)
He says logging food is now ridiculously easy and he no longer types entries.
Tools they used
Cost: Grok Bot: from $30/mo.
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You are helping me set up this AI use case end to end in Claude Code. Goal: Log food by snapping the label and telling your bot how much you ate What the original author did: He built a diet tracker app on Grok Bot and gave it a coach. He photographs the nutrition label, says how much he ate and the bot works out the numbers before logging. Reported result (as claimed by the author): He says logging food is now ridiculously easy and he no longer types entries. Source: https://x.com/AccessTips/status/2112594709122035952 Tools they used: Grok Bot Category: Personal & life Please: 1. Ask me 3 short questions about my situation (accounts I have, budget, what I want the output to look like). 2. Propose a step-by-step plan using these tools or cheaper alternatives, with the time and cost of each step. Use official pricing pages; say "check pricing" if unsure. 3. Then do the setup with me one step at a time, waiting for my OK before anything that sends messages, posts publicly, spends money or deletes data. 4. Finish with a checklist to run it again next time.
You are helping me set up this AI use case end to end in Codex. Goal: Log food by snapping the label and telling your bot how much you ate What the original author did: He built a diet tracker app on Grok Bot and gave it a coach. He photographs the nutrition label, says how much he ate and the bot works out the numbers before logging. Reported result (as claimed by the author): He says logging food is now ridiculously easy and he no longer types entries. Source: https://x.com/AccessTips/status/2112594709122035952 Tools they used: Grok Bot Category: Personal & life Please: 1. Ask me 3 short questions about my situation (accounts I have, budget, what I want the output to look like). 2. Propose a step-by-step plan using these tools or cheaper alternatives, with the time and cost of each step. Use official pricing pages; say "check pricing" if unsure. 3. Then do the setup with me one step at a time, waiting for my OK before anything that sends messages, posts publicly, spends money or deletes data. 4. Finish with a checklist to run it again next time.
You are helping me set up this AI use case end to end in Grok Bot. Goal: Log food by snapping the label and telling your bot how much you ate What the original author did: He built a diet tracker app on Grok Bot and gave it a coach. He photographs the nutrition label, says how much he ate and the bot works out the numbers before logging. Reported result (as claimed by the author): He says logging food is now ridiculously easy and he no longer types entries. Source: https://x.com/AccessTips/status/2112594709122035952 Tools they used: Grok Bot Category: Personal & life Please: 1. Ask me 3 short questions about my situation (accounts I have, budget, what I want the output to look like). 2. Propose a step-by-step plan using these tools or cheaper alternatives, with the time and cost of each step. Use official pricing pages; say "check pricing" if unsure. 3. Then do the setup with me one step at a time, waiting for my OK before anything that sends messages, posts publicly, spends money or deletes data. 4. Finish with a checklist to run it again next time.
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