Advanced Dietary Research Project: Entreprenuer, Business Partner and Investor needed.

[DataRider]

Hi,

I'm new here and I have a new idea to share.

I'm a self-taught computer programmer/scientist with Aspergers Autism (properly called aspergers syndrom). If you don't know what that is, it's the condition that Einstien and Issac Newton are thought to have had. It makes us so obsessed with some technical subject that we can't think about much else, so we become experts about it. We also tend to bore our friends by being one-track minded, but that's another story.

My Aspergers obsession is with computer and health subjects. Few people know more about health and nutrition than I do, and it's served me well by producing a perfectly healthy body for me to live in.

About a dozen years ago I developed software to analyze my diet using the free USDA nutrient database which lists more than 135 nutrients for 7500 foods. With this software I discovered and eliminated some nutrient deficiencies and reaped major health rewards.

Several years later I began analyzing epidemiological data in a new way and soon created a large health study that discovered fantastic pieces of new knowledge. It's not possible for a self-taught person such as myself to publish science, but aspergers people don't care much about that: we do things for our own use and pleasure.

It later occured to me that I could combine the two software systems to produce a computer program that measures food allergies and intollerances, and also produces data capable of quantifying nutrition in a way never before possible.

Imagine a computer program that can analyze your diet and predict which foods are causing your poor health symptoms. For example, noticing that your headaches often follow injestion of tomatoes (a common headache trigger), the software would suggest a probability value for the link between them: maybe 50 to 1 that tomatoes trigger the pain.

Technically that's easy. All it requires is an easy to use diet and symptoms diary, and a simple statistical modeling computer routine. I'm about half-way finished the described software, which is actually a website that requires no download or installation. I'd like to add a screenshot here, but I don't have enough posts to be allowed. A text link below can be used by those who'd like to see the screenshot.

But there's more to it. Users can access this software for free by consenting to allow their data to be gathered for study after being stripped of anything that might identify them to researchers. Alternatively a paid membership offers online data backup and the option to exclude their data from the study.

The data from this system is very valuable to researchers because they've never before had access to large numbers of detailed diet and symptoms records. With them we can determine the foods and nutritional parameters common to symptom-free diets and much more. The data, collected from large numbers of users on an ongoing basis, is a commodity that can be sold to researchers around the world.

There are many nutrition buffs who will be thrilled with this system, so large numbers of users and members will flock to it. Sales of the memberships and datasets combine with an advertising platform that targets a very focused group. There's also a potential free advertising resource of huge proportions to help launch it.

I'm a technician, not a businessman or entrepreneur. I can easily complete the software in three or four months, but I need a partner to handle the business aspect of it, and also a helper to take-on some of the less technical work. Not necessarily the same person. I also need an investor for an input of working capital while the development is completed.

Discussion and ideas are also on the menu. Thanks for reading.

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The screenshot includes a special graph that few people will understand at a glance. Invented for this purpose, it shows RDA levels in dark green, excess levels in light green, and danger levels in red. A question mark appears in one place showing a nutrient for which a few RDAs are measured but which has no danger level defined by government. The graph and data below it are shown in day scale: everything is scaled so that the calories match the users expected daily calorie intake. That's just a convenient way to compare foods and recipes that have different calorie amounts. It puts everything on the same scale. You can't see from the pic how everything flashes and changes color when the mouse hovers over it, but it's smooth and well developed in that respect too.

members.shaw.ca/braddennis/screen-shot.htm

[phanio]

Just like in life - long-distant relationships vedry rarely work out. I would suggest that you go down to your local colleges or University and make some contacts with both students and professors in their business department. This way, you may find the partner you need and find someone who is local. Or, you could get out and attend local business networking events (start with your chamber of commerce) and see who you might find there.
Best of luck,

Business Money Today

[DataRider]

This sounds like good advice, but cold sales visits are very hard for aspergers people to do.
First I thought I'd try the numbers game. Of many readers here, some may have enough
enthusiasm for this project to overcome the distance barrier. I can only hope. To me, the
prospect of a business that seriously helps people would be an irresistable lure, and so to
with many others I expect.