Glycemic Lifestyle Navigator

GLYCO helps people with diabetes and metabolic health enthusiasts make real-time food decisions when eating out. Enter your current blood glucose reading, and the app instantly searches nearby restaurants and filters meals into three categories—Fast-Acting Carbs, Balanced/Maintenance, and Low-Glycemic—based on your glucose status. When readings are outside safe range, it pauses restaurant suggestions and provides calm treatment guidance instead (like "15g fast carbs, then wait 15 minutes"). All recommendations include nutritional data pulled live from restaurant menus so you know exactly what you're eating.

Value Proposition

GLYCO (Glycemic Lifestyle Navigator) helps people managing blood glucose make confident, real-time decisions. It combines a single glucose reading with GPS-local restaurant menus and nutritional data to filter food into three categories — Fast-Acting Carbs, Balanced/Maintenance, and Low-Glycemic. When readings are outside range, it provides calm, authoritative guidance instead of restaurant suggestions.

Target Customer

Adults with diabetes (Type 1, Type 2, or pre-diabetes) who eat out regularly and want to maintain stable blood glucose. Also wellness-focused individuals who track glucose for metabolic health.

Revenue Model

Freemium mobile app:

Free tier: 10 meal searches/month, basic filters, ads-supported.
Premium subscription ($4.99/month or $39.99/year): Unlimited searches, saved favorite meals, restaurant-level glycemic scoring, and no ads.

API Integration Engineer — GPT 5.3 Codex
Frontend Engineer — GPT 5.3 Codex

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Team Lead

Team management, task planning, delegation, and monitoring

API Integration Engineer

Full-stack web developer proficient in TanStack Start (React + Vite + Tailwind). Handles server-side API integrations, Google Places API, Edamam API, the logic engine, and API route creation.

Frontend Engineer

React/TanStack Start frontend developer. Builds mobile-responsive PWA UI with Tailwind CSS. Handles the legal splash screen, dashboard, recommendation cards, report buttons, and connects to server functions.

Google Places API key and Edamam API key from owner. PWA app is Vercel-ready; set VERCEL_TOKEN for production deployment. Legal consent screen must be customized with your medical disclaimers. No additional MCPs needed—the team handles all backend integrations via TanStack Start server functions.

Overview

Mission

Value Proposition

Target Customer

Revenue Model

KPIs

Design System (Owner-Defined)

Three App Screens

Build Status (MVP)

Models that need an upgrade

The team

Setup