Every calorie counter treats nutrition like a single number, but a calorie isn't a nutrient. Two meals with identical calorie counts can leave you iron-deficient or overflowing with sodium, and none of the popular trackers surface that. Logging was also part of the problem: typing in every ingredient after a meal is tedious enough that most people give up within a week.

I wanted an app that (1) treats nutrition holistically, going far beyond calories and macros into the vitamins and minerals that actually determine how you feel, and (2) makes logging effortless, ideally as easy as taking a photo. That became BeanThere.

I have a degree in Health Sciences: Nutrition, with a concentration in Biochemistry. On paper, I had it all figured out.

But when I became a vegetarian, I still found myself iron deficient.

That experience made something clear: even when you know what you're doing, actually tracking your full nutrition day to day can be harder than it should be.

Most apps focus on calories and macros, which are helpful, but they only tell part of the story.

So I decided to bring together my background in nutrition and my work in software to build something that makes the full picture easier to see.

BeanThere is built from that place, because I've been there too.

- Adam, Founder