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This hit close to home. I build a food safety app with Capacitor and made a few of these kill decisions before even submitting. Admin pages that exist on the web version? Stripped from mobile entirely. A background data sync runner I liked? Removed because the battery and permission implications weren't worth the review risk. I'd rather cut the feature myself than get into a back-and-forth with...
Had to kill my favorite feature to survive Apple Review 🍎✂️ (Referral System)
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45% of food recalls aren't about contamination. They're about labels
We pull recall data from 41 government sources across 13 countries. The single biggest cause of food recalls isn't bacteria, metal fragments, or pesticides. It's undeclared allergens. Mislabeled ingredients. A factory that processes peanuts on the same line as "peanut-free" granola bars and doesn't update the packaging. 45% of all food recalls come down to someone not listing what's actually in...
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Manually reading government recall pages to check if my scrapers parsed them correctly. I pull data from 41 sources across 13 countries. When a new batch comes in, I open the actual agency page and compare it field by field against what the parser extracted. Title, hazard, classification, affected products. An LLM could probably do this faster and more consistently than me. But the one time I...
What's something you're embarrassed to admit you still do manually even though AI could do it?
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Your 100 step 'quest' is clever. Most screen time apps feel like punishment. Yours frames it as a trade, which changes the psychology completely. For your first question. I don't have a great scroll break strategy honestly. What works for me is keeping my hands busy. If I'm debugging something or cooking, I don't reach for the phone. The moment I'm idle it's over. For me, the "trance" is about...
How do you break the "scroll trance" when willpower isn't enough?
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The filter that works for me: does the person describe a problem or a solution? "I want to filter by severity" is a solution. "I can't tell which recalls matter for my family" is a problem, and the answer might not be a filter at all. The other signal is clustering. One person asking is an opinion. Three strangers independently describing the same friction is data.
How do you decide which feedback to turn into features?
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Building Nibble, a consumer safety app that aggregates food, product, drug, and vehicle recalls from government agencies across 13 countries (US, Canada, Australia, UK, Japan, Germany, France, and more). Users get personalized alerts based on dietary restrictions, allergies, location, and the brands they follow. Frontend: React + Vite + TypeScript, Tailwind, ~97K LOC. 13 i18n locales (including...
What are you building, and what does your stack look like?
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Still indie. I'm a solo dev building a consumer safety app that tracks food, product, and vehicle recalls across 13 countries. No co-founder, no funding, no marketing team. Just me and a lot of cron jobs. The thing that surprised me about PH is that the community side is real. The discussions, the feedback, the makers helping each other. That's not something a big budget can buy, and it's...
Is Product Hunt still for the "garage" indie maker, or is it dominated by big corps?
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I just share the stuff that's already interesting without trying to package it. I'm building a recall safety app that pulls data from 41 government sources across 13 countries, so weird things happen naturally. A scraper breaks because South Korea blocks foreign IPs at the ASN level, or I find out the EU's safety database tags the wrong country for half its alerts. Those are the posts that...
Everyone says "build in public"… but how do you do it without making it a full-time job?
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Programmer to marketer, without question. Code has a feedback loop measured in milliseconds. You write something, it either works or it doesn't, and the error tells you exactly where you went wrong. Marketing has a feedback loop measured in weeks, and the "error messages" are just silence. That silence is brutal when you're wired to expect immediate output. The other thing nobody warns you...
Is it more difficult to transform from a marketer to a programmer or from a programmer → a marketer?
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I run 41 data ingestion pipelines across 13 countries, all solo. Two years ago that's a team of 3-4 engineers minimum. So yes, the execution ceiling has cracked wide open. What hasn't changed is the cognitive overhead. Not "can I build this?" but "should I be building this right now, or should I be doing marketing, or support, or legal compliance, or the 8 other things that are also urgent?" AI...
Will solo startups dominate the business landscape in the future?
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For me this wasn't really a choice, the product decided for me. I'm building a consumer safety app. Users give me their dietary restrictions, allergens, and what products their kids and pets use. That's deeply personal data. There is no "launch anonymously and let the product speak" path for me. Nobody hands over their child's health information to a faceless product. Trust is a prerequisite,...
Build your brand before your product, or launch first and reveal yourself later?
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I think about this a lot. I'm a solo dev building a food & product recall alert app that covers 13 countries right now. The tricky thing is the core use case is safety. Like, telling someone their kid's car seat got recalled or their groceries are contaminated. I can't put that behind a paywall. It just wouldn't sit right. So the free tier is the full safety experience. Real-time alerts,...
How to give enough value without giving away the product
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No mentor, though I seriously wish I had one. Design and dev have always felt easier to wing, but I think that's partly a trap. A mentor could help a lot, but if they come in too early they can sap your enthusiasm for something you're still figuring out. Timing matters. My gut says mentors become invaluable once your product is maturing and starting to face the public. That's when the stuff you...
Does having a mentor actually matter in business and startups?
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The thumbnail is a big factor for me. If the tagline gets me interested, the thumbnail decides if I click. I've skipped products with great taglines because the preview image looked like a generic dashboard or stock mockup. And I've clicked into products with mid taglines because the screenshot showed something I could immediately picture myself using, or made me laugh if I'm being honest. The...
What makes you click into a Product Hunt launch?
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Solo dev saying hello from the food safety space
Hey everyone! I'm Maliik, a solo dev building Nibble, a food recall alert app for families. It tracks recalls personalized to your household, including kids and pets. Currently in closed testing on Android and live on the web. Been a long road getting here as a solo builder, so figured I'd finally say hello to the community. Looking forward to connecting with other makers here.