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Someone on Reddit suggested to make this data available via API and license it. This is genuinely an angle I didn't even consider.

A few years back, I got obsessed with the idea of analyzing the entire supplement market. The first couple of experiments didn't go far, but as models got better, I was able to: * …

Thank you – With regards to your suggestions about attribution: The whole premise of Pillser is that every single health claim of any sorts is backed by research papers. Example: L…

A lot of the innovation happened in how we analyze every supplement by extracting the ingredients, normalizing them, and then doing the same with research papers. It has been a ver…

I created Pillser. It's a database of supplement research that I've been enriching for couple of years. https://www.reddit.com/r/Probiotics/comments/1s2kxpy/for_over_2_years_ive_be…

OMG you've noticed! I was so proud when I came up with it, but I don't think anyone ever commented on it until now. and I agree. It needs to catch on!

There is interesting context here. The first version of Pillser was focused on very narrow area of supplements, and specifically, supplements sold in the shape of pills (therefore …

I know Examine.com, and I've spoken to the founder a few times. I really appreciate what they are doing. I am very open about how the site is planning to be monetized https://pills…

That's solid advice for most people in the Western world. K2 and magnesium are sensible choices–genuinely hard to get enough of through diet alone. The bigger problem is that most …

That's the plan. I don't intend to own any stock. I want to focus on covering the broadest range of supplements across all of the marketplaces, having the richest data about them, …

I don't want to, and I don't plan to. At a time when this happened, I was deep in my studies preparing for exams, and I just remember thinking to myself, "I cannot afford to pull m…

Aspirin is not a supplement; it's a medication.

Consumer Labs is definitely the furthest ahead compared to everyone else. I've been using them for many years now.

I am more of a geek than a business shark, but when I was doing market research, I couldn't believe just how big some of the supplement marketplaces are. iHerb ($2nb+), Amazong ($8…

When you're typing things into search, you're using a freeform search which is going to match the ingredients based on the partial match. If you want to look for the specific ingre…

I appreciate you letting me know. I can see it in Sentry as well. It's odd though, it looks like it's coming directly from React. There are no traces in my own codebase. I'll try t…

I think you've mistaken Vitamin D and Vitamin D3 https://pillser.com/search?s=dfbtbc9110&q=%22Vitamin+D3%22 The cheapest price on Pillser for D3 is $0.26/mg

That's true. US is a wild wild west in that regard. However, I am working next to clearly label which supplements have COA vs which are unverified.

That's my dream! That's where I want to take this project. At the moment, my focus is on what I can do by aggregating and analyzing the available data. Extracting ingredients, norm…

I would love to get your feedback on what data to prioritize and how to make it easier to browse. I've learned from my last sprint that this project can get overwhelming. So now I …

Hey HN! This has been my project for a few years now. I recently brought it back to life after taking a pause to focus on my studies. My goal with this project is to separate fluff…

That's cool Didn't know it is capable of doing it!

Looks like https://api.fly.io/graphql is not even accessible. Meanwhile, their status pages shows all services are up https://status.flyio.net/.

Hey HN, I've been working on this for just about a year. My idea is pretty simple – I want to bring scientific proof to the supplement shopping process. Too many products are sold …