Hey! Prateek here. This is a new step I am taking; it is about telling my story to the world. That includes the awesome things I build, every day. specifically, what I learn through them, and maybe, what you can learn from them.
This article is about building Senseii, a product that I wish I always had. I have started building it few months ago and here is the journey about it. but first a little about me.
I am a Software Engineer from India, who is graduating from college in two months. See, I haven't mentioned the name of college? because it is not a big one, but my dreams make up for it (they are big :D). I have always wanted to impact humans around me, to do something that changed their lives in a positive way. And that is what Senseii is all about.
There are two major things lacking in people around me, knowledge about health and fitness, along with self confidence that students from small colleges can do something great. I want to provide health literacy to a wide variety of people, specifically who are not willing to pay big bucks to professionals and I want to become a living example to people from my background, that we can make impact on the world. so, I started with this Idea.
The Idea
Senseii, which in Japanese stands for a teacher is a personalised AI product, that helps people achieve their Goals while educating them. For example, you want to loose weight in a specific period of time. Just tell senseii about your goals, he will educate you about your goal, educating you about things like, what is the process of loosing weight? is your current goal good for your health or something needs to be changed? After you understand your goals better, now to create a plan, you are not alone, but your senseii will tell you do's and dont's about creating a weight loss plan, even create a plan, which you can customise to your own needs, depending on your budget, region, beliefs etc. Finally, you follow the plan, everyday, and your senseii keeps a track of it, what good you did, what bad etc. and if for some reasons, your plan needs to be altered, senseii will do it for you! And, you can have as many goals as you want.
The Plan
Everyone has goals, these goals can be broadly categorised in three major groups, Health, Work and Relationships. That includes "I want to be in a better shape", "I want to eat healthy", "I want to learn this specific skill (programming ?)" all the way to "I want to better communicate my feelings". Achieving a goal is a three step process.
Understand the Goal better: we don't really know what we want in the first go, it is often layered, talking to experts can help us understand what we truly want.
Creating a Plan: To do anything, a proper plan is needed, which often requires a lot of research and domain expertise, it's great if there is someone experienced available to assist us in the process.
Following the plan: Following the plan, tracking daily, weekly, monthly progress. helps with motivation and check if we are on the right track, this is a tedious task, it would be great if someone smart could do it for us.
All these steps are assisted by a group of expert AI assistants, that work together to assist you. Each assistant handling specific task, independently. Tasks like creating nutrition plans, workout plans, learning roadmap, tracking progress etc. All the user does, is talks in natural language and see their progress in a dashboard.
Where do we stand right now ?
We are currently a part of Microsoft For Startups Founders Hub, which is one of the biggest achievements so far. We have decided to divide the project into multiple parts, where v1 of the MVP will focus on the Health and Fitness side. The major features include:
User onboarding
Local Health data Sync
User Health Goal definition
Nutrition Plan creation
Workout plan creation
Live Progress Tracking
We have implemented a good amount of backend as well as frontend, while doing research on improving the overall performance of the system. Currently we are the step of Plan creation and benchmarking them. This step involves a lot of experimentation !
Where we need Help ?
We are looking for people in the domain of Nutritional Sciences, who are willing to provide their valuable insights about nutrition. We want to evaluate the AI generated plans against plans generated by Certified Nutritionists, to see how large of the gap between their performance is, and then fill the Gap using different strategies (we are testing). So if you are someone who can help us out, please do !
Outro
I wanted to keep this article a light introduction to our product, therefore I did not touch a lot on the tech and implementation side, but in the next articles we will. So stay in touch and watch me build this awesome product from scratch.