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I'm building a site that aggregates remote developer jobs from ~40 job boards: https://devmote.net
Currently a one-man side project: https://laboratory.love Last year, PlasticList found plastic chemicals in 86% of tested foods—including 100% of baby foods they tested. Around the same time, the EU lowered its “safe” BPA limit by 20,000×, while the FDA still allows levels roughly 100× higher than Europe’s new standard. That seemed solvable. Laboratory.love lets you crowdfund independent lab testing of the specific p…
On https://laboratory.love/faq you say: "We never accept funding from companies whose products we might test. All our funding comes from individual contributors." On https://laboratory.love/blog you say: "If you're a product manufacturer interested in having your product tested, we welcome your participation in funding." Bit confused as to your position on funding.
I certainly want to avoid any weird incentive misalignment. Because the testing is done by an accredited lab that provides an official Certificate of Analysis, I think I could reasonably accept funding from manufacturers once I build out a feature that would will allow visitors to download the COA PDF.
No manufacturer has reached out directly yet, presumably because a) this project is small and still gaining trust and b) they would probably want to do testing privately and avoid publication of 'bad' results anyway.
Current version is over at https://owl.so but the local first native app (Owl/2) is about to hit beta real soon.
Currently a one-man side project: https://laboratory.love Last year, PlasticList found plastic chemicals in 86% of tested foods—including 100% of baby foods they tested. Around the same time, the EU lowered its “safe” BPA limit by 20,000×, while the FDA still allows levels roughly 100× higher than Europe’s new standard. That seemed solvable. Laboratory.love lets you crowdfund independent lab testing of the specific p…
This is very cool. Here is something I'm struggling with as a user. I look at a product (this tofu for example [0]) and see the amounts. And then I have absolutely no clue what it means. Is it bad? How bad? I see nanograms one place and μg in an info menu - is μg a nanogram? And what is LOQ? Virtually 0? Simply less than the recommended amount? I think 99% of people will have the same reaction. They will have no idea…
I'm working to make results more digestible and actionable. This will include the %TDI toggle (total daily intake, for child vs adult and USA vs EU) as seen on PlasticList, but I'm also tinkering with an even more consumer-friendly 'chemical report card'. The final results page would have both the card and the detailed table of results.
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This is very cool. Here is something I'm struggling with as a user. I look at a product (this tofu for example [0]) and see the amounts. And then I have absolutely no clue what it means. Is it bad? How bad? I see nanograms one place and μg in an info menu - is μg a nanogram? And what is LOQ? Virtually 0? Simply less than the recommended amount? I think 99% of people will have the same reaction. They will have no idea…
Exactly my thoughts when I went through it. I want to see the results of the test compared to the EU/US/Whoever recommendations. I want explanations of what the different chemicals are and preferably linked to peer reviewed studies explaining side effects. Once even more tests are ran I want comparisons between product brands. Overall still great but very much an engineer presentation to complex data. Not that its a…
I'm working to make results more digestible and actionable. This will include the %TDI toggle (total daily intake, for child vs adult and USA vs EU) as seen on PlasticList, but I'm also tinkering with an even more consumer-friendly 'chemical report card'. The final results page would have both the card and the detailed table of results.
Currently a one-man side project: https://laboratory.love Last year, PlasticList found plastic chemicals in 86% of tested foods—including 100% of baby foods they tested. Around the same time, the EU lowered its “safe” BPA limit by 20,000×, while the FDA still allows levels roughly 100× higher than Europe’s new standard. That seemed solvable. Laboratory.love lets you crowdfund independent lab testing of the specific p…
At a minimum it needs glyphosate testing. I suspect the avocado oil has no plastics but high glyphosate, it's one of the many reasons I only use high-quality olive oil and coconut oil in cooking.
I've been suffering from migraines for the last month, so have channeled my (non-migraine) time into a migraine tracker to try and find the root causes. All the tracking apps I tried all have nice complex forms, which is all well and good, unless...you are having a migraine. Rough idea is easy to use voice mode to record data, then analyze unstructured data with AI later on. I want to track all relevant life informat…
Blood sugar. Turned out I was having hypos. I’ve found now that just a spoonful of honey when I feel them coming on normally reduces my migraines to headaches, which I can manage myself with paracetamol
Sorry - not directly related to your post but still perhaps useful
I enjoy exploring AI-assisted process development. Things I've learned are:
* Building nôn pipelines for generating placeholder art. GPT-5 excels at writing code nodes.
* LLM for LaTeX generation (note: GPT-5 generally fails at even moderately complex LaTeX and often adds complexity while endlessly orbiting the problem without solving it. On of the other hand, it's failed solutions eventually give me enough datapoints to develop the correct solution on my own. Probably faster than learning enough LaTeX to develop them on my own. Sadly I can fix broken LaTeX much easier than writing correct LaTeX.
* Using LaTeX to read card data out of CSVs is difficult to get right (esp with embedded LaTeX) but honestly pretty good for rapid prototyping.
* Searching games for mechanics to solve specific interaction problems is an ok-ish problem for GPT-5. I wish I had a vector DB of indexed PDF manuals for the top 5k bgg games, but that's too big of a problem to solve.
It's incredibly cheap and easy to generate reasonable approximations of thematic text sufficient for a prototype.
Overall, I went from idea to first round of playtesting in about 2-3 weeks. Previous similar attempts had been 2-3 months. I feel quite a bit less attached to darlings, but the downside is a bit of shame attached to having playtesters work around errors originating from AI usage rather than errors generated by my own oversights
I'm currently collecting submissions for the first editions. So if you would be interested to feature your smart home, that would be awesome.