Nutrepedia
Nutrition info in 29 locales built with Clojure and Htmx
Details
- External ID
- 48386129
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Nutrepedia
- Website domain
- nutrepedia.com
- Launched
- June 3, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 135
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9357923497267759
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- developer tools and programming utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Vertical SaaS
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- nutrition information database in 29 locales
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Nutrepedia is a standard server-rendered multilingual content directory for food nutrition metrics, easily created using public nutrition databases (like USDA FoodData Central) and standard web frameworks.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: fddb, Food Central, existing nutritional apps
Concerns raised: USDA database doesn't apply outside USA, especially for processed foods, Carbohydrate labeling differs internationally (EU subtracts fiber, US doesn't), AI-generated text adds no value and wastes user time, Search results aren't hyperlinks, breaking middle-click/new tab behavior, Fuzzy matching returns irrelevant results (salmon showing almonds, spinach showing taro)
Feature requests: Reference diet comparison mode to show nutritional diversity added by foods, Essential vs non-essential amino acids breakdown, Distinguish between essential amino acids (e.g., beans + rice pairing), Side-by-side food comparison view, Default unit setting (e.g., 100g standard)
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 125 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #11 of 126 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 213 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Cljbang.el · hn · 2026-07-22 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Linguin, a live multilingual dictionary for 120 languages · hn · 2026-07-20 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- HackerTok · hn · 2026-02-15 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- shiyi-ai-diet-assistant · github · 2026-09-15 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- IndexFlow · hn · 2026-08-28 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Igor · hn · 2026-03-09 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Clean HTML for Semantic Extraction · hn · 2026-01-09 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.39
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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