Show HN: Pour Decision – Alcohol Tracker and Mindful Drinking Companion

Try Ketohol, it's gaining popularity.

You get a slight buzz and no crummy feeling afterwards. Active ingredient is called 1-3-butanediol, breaks down into a ketone which is easily processed by the body. Unlike alcohol which breaks down into acetylaldehyde, nasty stuff.

Downsides are cost, availability, taste (not great) and buzz is not as strong as alcohol.

As an additional resource, there are free non-12-step/non-religious meetings at https://smartrecovery.org. This group has helped someone close to me.

I don't drink any more. I quit because it was causing noticeable issues in my relationships, my career, and my mental and physical health. So before I say anything else, I want to say that I'm in no position to judge anyone else's drinking.

That said, having talked to a good amount of people about their relationships with alcohol, I think a lot of people trying to moderate would get a lot out of doing an honest risk/reward analysis of moderating. The rewards of moderating are just not that great:

- You get to drink something that tastes interesting (do you even like the taste?).

- You get a slight buzz (do you actually want a slight buzz? Or do you actually just want to get drunk?).

- You get to do the same thing as other people in a social situation (does being slightly buzzed actually make you feel more comfortable around people, or do you need to be actually drunk for that to happen?).

The risks can be horrific. I'm not going to enumerate them all, they're fairly well-known. What I will say is that even the "minor" effects, like depression, saying something awkward and hurting a relationship, or feeling hung over at work, are more than bad enough to outweigh the upsides. You don't have to kill someone drunk driving to stop drinking.

I'm not an absolutist, and I actually really disagree with the fear-of-drinking-based "abstinence only" approach of AA; I think that's helpful for some people, but I think a lot more people can just quit because they want better for themselves, without all the absolutism. I also don't believe in some sort of "alcoholic"/"not an alcoholic" dichotomy. I think it's quite possible for some people who drink too much to moderate. But if moderating is hard for you, why do something hard for questionable benefit when the risk is potentially catastrophic?

TryDry offers a great UX for free. Made by UK gov IIRC.

iOS https://apps.apple.com/fr/app/try-dry-the-dry-january-app/id...

Android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.org.alcohol...

This seems really cool!

I noticed the landing page has a rotating PNG gallery in desktop but not on mobile. I'm sure you must've wanted to put it in the mobile page too, was it hard to UX or just too inconvenient to implement easily?

Congrats on the app! I don't think I've ever clicked into a privacy policy so quickly.

This looks cool. Does it add the alcohol consumption data into apple’s health app?

Love the concept and the UI looks amazing! Did you make this in SwiftUI?

Set yourself drinking targets, don't lose the drinking streak.

One thing I wish was a bigger thing in the States was more near beer like options. You basically have two choices for low alcohol beer when it comes to that in the States: you either buy the most watered down thing available which is usually around 3.5% or you buy N/A (<0.5%) or hop water (0%). I would love to just have a place where I can have 1%-2% beverages to easily pace myself without having to control my intake rate. The one-on one-off solution of alternating N/A and regular works but requires a fair amount of self control to manage that. I have also tried naltrexone which mostly just gives me side effects and makes me feel terrible for a couple of days, not really helping slow down intake.

Having lived in Sweden a bit who has better approach around this I can say it’s much nicer - Systembolaget has options for pretty much any percentage you like and breweries like mikkeller are making incredible low ABV options. 2% is available at the grocery store, and bars are legally required to offer N/A options.