Show HN: Which animal shares your body fat percentage?

Posted by Atallapr 10/24/2024

Show HN: Which animal shares your body fat percentage?(animalbodyfatmatch.netlify.app)

I recently came across a youtube video about animals and their average body fat percentages.I thought it would be fun to compare my body fat to different animals and see which one I most resemble. This idea spiraled into a two-hour project, where I turned the data from the video into a JSON file, asked chatgpt to help create a UI, and deployed the whole thing on netlify. Pretty cool how fast we can quickly build random projects like this 10x faster with llms!

Now that I’m typing this, I still have no clue why I made this... but here it is. Enjoy!

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parpfish 10/24/2024|

id rather see a table than have to enter a form. that way you don't just get "your" score, but you get to see the whole list of animals and learn about which ones have high/low body fat

sebmellen 10/24/2024||

The cutworm moth is 72% body fat. Crazy!!!!

moralestapia 10/24/2024||

Cat master race reporting in.

Great site, thanks for sharing!

IncreasePosts 10/24/2024||

How long did it take you to make?

Atallapr 10/24/2024|

2 hours!

jamil7 10/24/2024||

Err hornet.

p4bl0 10/24/2024||

Héhéhé. That is fun!

BlindEyeHalo 10/24/2024||

Having insects in there feels a bit odd to me. Not exactly relatable.

onlyrealcuzzo 10/24/2024||

This is fun! Take my internet points!

Good job.

lapcat 10/24/2024|

I always suspect that viral online forms like this are simply fronts for collecting personal information to sell.

umanwizard 10/24/2024||

Who would want to buy the results of a highly unscientific poll about body fat percentages?

lapcat 10/24/2024|||

The highly unscientific poll aspect is irrelevant. The question should be, who would want to know the body fat percentages of potential consumers (as identified by IP addresses, cookies, and other methods of online tracking used by the forms)? This would obviously be useful for targeted advertising, for example. And this information can be correlated and gathered in giant databases with profiles of consumers.

ajot 10/24/2024||

Well, maybe it's just me, but I can see their data being posioned by checking different numbers to see all animals :)

feoren 10/24/2024|||

Data brokers do not seem to care if their data is poisoned. That's their customers' problem! Their customers don't have any way of validating it, so there's no incentive to care. Haven't you ever received spam that was based on some extremely spurious connections?

kelipso 10/24/2024|||

I did that too but the first number I inputted was my percentage. I'd say most people would do the same thing.

ecshafer 10/24/2024|||

People trying to sell people ozempic and other glp-1 compounds.

Atallapr 10/24/2024||

If it helps, I’m not storing any user data. There’s no backend or database, the app just looks up values in a static json. Just copied the ui code from chatgpt and put it into a react app. The only thing I’m tracking is page views!

timeon 10/24/2024||

Nothing against using what you want, but isn't React bit overkill here? (For one input and one image).

Atallapr 10/24/2024||

it definitely is, but I use it at work and find it to be pretty readable. Since I was asking gpt to write most of it I wanted it to be in a framework I could easily understand and work in as well.

jy14898 10/24/2024|||

Now they know I'm 100% body fat

im3w1l 10/24/2024|||

The design encourages trying multiple values, and most people visiting the site probably don't even know their bf%