The Guru Index
Scan a skincare product, see what the experts said
Details
- External ID
- 1262488
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- The Guru Index
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 29, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- iOS, Health & Fitness, Beauty
- Fetched at
- Sept. 30, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 30, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
Standing in the shop holding a skincare product you've never heard of? Photograph the label and The Guru Index shows you what dermatologists, cosmetic chemists and estheticians have actually said about it. Every product gets one Guru Score, built from 43,000+ quoted takes by 50 trusted experts across 4,600+ products. Sponsored takes are labelled and count for half, and no brand pays us for a score. Search by name, heart what you want, and build a routine. Free on iPhone.
Enrichment
- Theme
- beauty, skincare, and wellness technology
- Vertical
- Retail & commerce
- Function
- Search & retrieval
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- skincare barcode scanner for expert product reviews
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial The label-scanning OCR UI is easy, but compiling and maintaining a verified dataset of 43,000+ expert quotes mapped to specific cosmetic formulas requires extensive curation.
What it would actually take: The mobile app uses standard OCR (Apple Vision or Google ML Kit) to extract ingredient lists and product names, sending queries to a backend API. The difficult hurdle is the proprietary database and ingestion pipeline that crawls, extracts, and sentiment-scores expert opinions from YouTube, dermatological blogs, and cosmetic chemistry papers.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #24 of 54 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 167 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.