Great resource for categories and research on supplements. Because supplements in U.S. are in the "wild west" of regulatory oversite, its important to know ingredient efficacy and ingredient purity. Consumer Labs (pay for subscription) offers some testing on selected products. Need to tweek "purchase from other market" -not all markets are "Out" as indicated.
Show HN: I've been using AI to analyze every supplement on the market
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Re: Show HN: I've been using AI to analyze every supplement on the market
#42idk if you invented this but "add a ? to the end to get an AI response" seems like a convention that should catch on.
Well done!
Re: Show HN: I've been using AI to analyze every supplement on the market
#43> Technical: I started this project when the first LLMs came out. I've built extensive internal evals to understand how LLMs are performing. The hallucinations at the time were simply too frequent to passthrough this data to visitors. However, I recently re-ran my evals with Opus 4.5 and was very impressed. I am running out of scenarios that I can think/find where LLMs are bad at interpreting data. It's nice to see a…
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Re: Show HN: I've been using AI to analyze every supplement on the market
#44I’d love to hear your domain expertise—specifically which supplements you’d recommend avoiding, which ones are generally worth taking, and whether there are any brands or products you trust. I imagine you’ve picked up a lot of insights beyond the technical side as well.
I think it will be nice if there is a summary of that somewhere on the website. It was the first thing I was looking for.
Re: Show HN: I've been using AI to analyze every supplement on the market
#45idk if you invented this but "add a ? to the end to get an AI response" seems like a convention that should catch on. Well done!
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!
Re: Show HN: I've been using AI to analyze every supplement on the market
#46Please seriously consider *not* using ads to generate revenue. We need to return to other models rather than just slapping ads on everything. Be the change you want to see in the world. Do you really want to see more ads? Have a look at https://examine.com as the closest site I can think of in this space, and check out their revenue models.
See also rtings.com, with 4,359 products bought and tested.
Re: Show HN: I've been using AI to analyze every supplement on the market
#47Unfortunately, none of these data are usable because (in the US, at least) there is no oversight on labeling accuracy for nutritional supplements. That means I can dump woodchips into capsules and sell them as Multivitamins with 12 vitamins & minerals, and nobody would be the wiser. There is more rigorous testing being done in underground steroid + peptide communities than in legal nutritional supplements. Crazy worl…
Sort've related, but here in Australia pet food manufactures are not required to list the nutritional content of their foods, whereas in the US as I understand it they do.
They do but the nutritional information guides you to feeding your dog 20,000kcal a day. The suggested serving size on every brand I've seen is about 5 cups for a 70lb dog, whereas my dog gains weight on more than one cup.
At least the "grain free" labels appear to be accurate.
Re: Show HN: I've been using AI to analyze every supplement on the market
#48found a bug searching for "collagen": Failed to execute 'removeChild' on 'Node': The node to be removed is not a child of this node. Something broke. We're working on it, but in the meantime, try reloading the page. If that doesn't work, come back later. Error ID: b846e2e2ba3b483ab93f10e72ef76820 NotFoundError: Failed to execute 'removeChild' on 'Node': The node to be removed is not a child of this node. at ds (https…
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 to isolate it.
Might be a browser extension fucking with the dom. Just guessing.
Re: Show HN: I've been using AI to analyze every supplement on the market
#49This seems more like cataloguing than analyzing I'd love to see a project that actually analyzes every supplement on the market to make sure it actually contains what it claims to, contains it at the listed dosage, and to show anything else found (heavy metals for example). That's not something AI can do for us though since it'd involve physically collecting and testing samples.
Sounds expensive to test every podunk brand on Amazon. Maybe just the big brands that claim to be accurate like Bryan Johnson's Blueprint.
Re: Show HN: I've been using AI to analyze every supplement on the market
#50Please seriously consider *not* using ads to generate revenue. We need to return to other models rather than just slapping ads on everything. Be the change you want to see in the world. Do you really want to see more ads? Have a look at https://examine.com as the closest site I can think of in this space, and check out their revenue models.
Without ads, you are just gatekeeping it from poor people. You can make the premium ad-free, but making the free version ad-free is basically asking for the price of the premium version to be raised to subsidize everyone else.