SupplementDEX
The Evidence-Based Supplement Database
Details
- External ID
- 47372028
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- SupplementDEX
- Website domain
- supplementdex.com
- Launched
- March 14, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 17
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7103321033210332
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Hi this is a work in progress but it works to determine supplement efficacy for 500 conditions at the moment.Things you can do:- search for a condition -> find which supplements are effective -> see which studies indicate they are effective -> read individual study summaries- search for a supplement -> see effectiveness table, dosing, safety, dietary sources, mechanisms of action (+ browse all original sources)let me know what you think
Enrichment
- Theme
- niche reference databases and directories
- Vertical
- Healthcare
- Function
- Analytics & BI
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- supplement research database
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial The web directory and search interface are trivial to vibe-code, but curating, verifying, and maintaining thousands of clinically accurate, human-reviewed medical studies and efficacy scores requires deep domain expertise.
What it would actually take: A production version requires a Next.js/Supabase application paired with an automated ingestion pipeline for PubMed citations (using NCBI APIs). The critical bottleneck is the medical curation and validation layer: extracting standardized outcomes from clinical trials, calculating evidence weights/bias scores, and clinical review by qualified dietitians or physicians to ensure legal safety and credibility.
Discussion
2 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Examine.com, ConsumerLabs.com
Concerns raised: Lack of manufacturer trustworthiness and label accuracy verification, Need for contaminant testing and brand safety validation
Feature requests: Manufacturer trustworthiness ratings and label verification, Brand testing for contaminants, Cost comparison across brands
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 71 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #25 of 72 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 93 days after the earliest competitor.
- hintl · ph · 2026-09-26 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- I've been using AI to analyze every supplement on the market · hn · 2026-01-22 · 94 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Health Supplements Shop App · ph · 2026-09-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Vitaebase · ph · 2026-09-16 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- DoseLucid · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Health OS · ph · 2026-09-13 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Caloripedia · ph · 2026-09-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Is This Vegan? · ph · 2026-09-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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