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I take a lot of supplements and here are the things I want to know: - Which supplements have a specific ingredient - If they have the ingredient how much is i
by raylad 4y ago
I take a lot of supplements and here are the things I want to know:
- Which supplements have a specific ingredient
- If they have the ingredient how much is in each capsule or pill
- The price per unit quantity of the ingredient
- Often I am looking for one specific compound, so I want to find only supplements that don't have any other compounds, or at least know exactly what other compounds are in their formula (without looking at each one individually)
- For supplements that are extracts, I want to know if they are standardized, what they are standardized to, and the % of that compound in the product.
- If there is a Certificate of Analysis (and what it says and a link to it would be great)
- If they are organic
- Country of origin
- If they are tested for heavy metals
- If the company has ever been found to have products that don't contain what they state, or are unsafe in another way, and how recently and how often
- If the products are freshness dated, and how long a shelf life is claimed
- Where to get them at the lowest price, including shipping
What I don't want is what Google does: I don't want to see other similar sounding compounds when searching for a specific one.
Also, are you planning to charge for access to this? Not sure if people will pay for it on a subscription basis. I wouldn't, because I only sometimes look for something new.
- richarlidad 4y agoWill likely make entire database for dosing information. Lab testing, UPC Code/ Enterprise side data paywalled.
- raylad 4y agoIf you are going to paywall the data that would actually be useful for people who want to buy supplements, that's pretty useless, and doesn't seem congruent with your goal of "changing how people buy health supplements".
- Wingman4l7 4y agoReading this exhaustive list, I couldn't help but think... this is what regulators are for. They're supposed to do all this homework so that the individual consumer doesn't have to, because they couldn't possibly hope to.
- raylad 4y agoRegulators never tell you the cost per ingredient, or most of those other things. If regulators take over the supplement market it will be gone, everything will get 10x or 100x more expensive, and all that will be left is prescriptions. No thanks. Also, this information is not disclosed for drugs either.