Hey there, we have a tool that encourages people who aren't willing/able to go vegan yet to offset their impact on animals through donations to effective charities: https://compassioncalculator.org/

Seems like it would be valuable to encourage users to offset their consumption as they reduce it in the app so that they're doing more good for animals on their diet journey (whatever their ultimate destination).

If you'd like to chat about this, hit me up at aidan@farmkind.giving

Hey just tested out the app. Works very smoothly.

a couple points of feedback:

I think there is an opportunity to add a bit more education. The words in the beginning were really nice, but I can't find them again once I enter the app. It would be nice to have some sort of clickable link (maybe a pop up in the section where they select the food or in the history section where it explains the reasoning or definition of the units). Also, fish, chicken, and shrimp have way outsized impacts to beef and pork have you considered differentiating these?

Have you seen foodimpacts.org? You could see if you can embed the graph here into the app as an interactive education tool and edit the units based on the impact of each food type. You can also create links or do a collab with Farmkind which offers donation offsets for people who consume animal products. That way, people can have multiple ways to help animals.

also, the total of plant/animal portions a day on the history tab should be on top for better UX.

Description of subprojects and results, including major changes from the original proposal

The project is now live on the App Store. Please check it out feel free to give me any feedback.

Spending breakdown

$500 - designer

$100 - App Store developer account fee

$400 - development setup, including an old Mac and developer tools (Cursor and Claude code expenses)

What progress have you made since your last update?

I thought I updated here but I don’t see it. The app has been released in the App Store in November. Please check it out here https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vasture/id6737757459

What are your next steps?

There are a couple of features in the pipeline currently. More updates would come based on the user feedback.

Is there anything others could help you with?

Would really appreciate any feedback, feature requests and App Store reviews.

What progress have you made since your last update?

• The basic functionality of the app including adding details about meals, ability to customize the map of different foods to their impact, aggregate stats (daily, weekly, monthly, yearly) are implemented. The user experience is very barebones at this point.

• The app runs on iOS and android

• I hired a designer and we did a couple of iterations on the design of the app. Most of the screen designs are fleshed out. A couple more are in progress.
  

What are your next steps?

• Finish the design of the remaining screens

• Implement the new designs into the app
  

Is there anything others could help you with?

• Once the designs are implemented, I would really appreciate if anyone who’s interested can try the app and give me feedback. This would be an early version and might have some basic bugs and issues.
  

Aren't eggs one of the worst products, moreso than meat? Also, IIRC rice farming(?) involves killing mice. I'd want to use such an app if I could subjectively set the associated cruelty scores and if I was more confident that it was accurate.

That said, this does sound like it could have a lot of potential to grow, assuming a good marketing plan.

Adding money to reach the minimum funding bar. @saideep please post ~monthly updates on your progress if you can. It would be interesting and useful to me and others

Could you clarify what a "designer" is? Maybe that is more obvious to people with a development background, but I don't know if you mean art, UI, or something else.

What sources will you be using to set the numbers on the cruelty score? And do you have any plans to support alternative user-set numbers in the event that users disagree with you on prioritization? For example, if users are more concerned than you are with the possibility of plant suffering, will you allow them to set numbers on plant suffering in such a way as to have those numbers then propagate through the app and be reflected in larger numbers for plant products, larger numbers for animals raised on a diet of plant products, et cetera?