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by lilouartz 5mo ago
Someone on Reddit suggested to make this data available via API and license it. This is genuinely an angle I didn't even consider.
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Ask HN: Monetizing a Supplements Dataset
2 points by lilouartz 5mo ago|1 comments
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by lilouartz 6mo ago
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: Let's say you are exploring this probiotic: https:&#x2F
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by lilouartz 6mo ago
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 very exciting product to work on from the technical perspective
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My side project was annihilated by Google
7 points by lilouartz 6mo ago|3 comments
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by lilouartz 8mo ago
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!
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by lilouartz 8mo ago
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 the name "Pillser" [pill search]). However, it kin
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by lilouartz 8mo ago
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://pillser.com/affiliate-disclosure
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by lilouartz 8mo ago
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 supplement sales are marketing-led. That's what pu
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by lilouartz 8mo ago
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, and then focus on the affiliate revenue. The affil
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by lilouartz 8mo ago
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 myself into what could become a legal matter&q
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by lilouartz 8mo ago
Aspirin is not a supplement; it's a medication.
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by lilouartz 8mo ago
Consumer Labs is definitely the furthest ahead compared to everyone else. I've been using them for many years now.
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by lilouartz 8mo ago
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 ($8bn+), GNC ($2bn+), Vitamin Shoppe ($1bn+). However, it&
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by lilouartz 8mo ago
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 ingredients, you can do so by clicking on the "Ing
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by lilouartz 8mo ago
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.
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by lilouartz 8mo ago
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
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by lilouartz 8mo ago
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.
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by lilouartz 8mo ago
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, normalizing them, normalizing quantities across every
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by lilouartz 8mo ago
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 am making it my priority to build a community of people
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Show HN: I've been using AI to analyze every supplement on the market(pillser.com)
94 points by lilouartz 8mo ago|47 comments
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by lilouartz 1y ago
That's cool Didn't know it is capable of doing it!
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Fly.io Is Having an Outage
4 points by lilouartz 2y ago|0 comments
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by lilouartz 2y ago
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 with exaggerated claims or without any science backing.
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Auto Indexing of URLs via Google API(pillser.com)
1 points by lilouartz 2y ago|0 comments
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by lilouartz 2y ago
Ended up ditching Cloudflare for this use case https://pillser.com/engineering/2024-08-26-speeding-up-your-...
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Speeding Up Your Website Using Fastify and Redis Cache(pillser.com)
1 points by lilouartz 2y ago|0 comments
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Speeding Up Your Website Using Cloudflare Cache(pillser.com)
83 points by lilouartz 2y ago|25 comments
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Show HN: Personalized nutrition advice using ChatGPT, backed by research papers(pillser.com)
2 points by lilouartz 2y ago|0 comments
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Security Auditing Your Website: Preparing for HIPAA Compliance(pillser.com)
1 points by lilouartz 2y ago|0 comments

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