Hey Product Hunt 👋

Built panko alerts because every major US city publishes restaurant health inspection data — and almost no one looks at it.

NYC alone inspects ~25,000 restaurants a year. They post grades, scores, and violations to a public database the same week. But the data lives in 8 different city APIs (NYC, LA, Chicago, SF, Boston are all live; Miami/Seattle/Dallas are partial), formatted in raw bureaucratic jargon, with no notification system.

So most diners walk past restaurants with active 47-point failing scores and have no idea.

Panko fixes that:

🏪 RESTAURANT HEALTH INSPECTIONS — every score, every violation, every grade-pending appeal across NYC, LA, Chicago, SF, Boston. Pulled directly from each city's health department API as it publishes.

📞 NYC 311 RESTAURANT COMPLAINTS — vermin, temperature, allergens, sanitation reports surfaced from the 311 dataset. Most NYC residents don't know this is public.

🚨 FDA, USDA & CPSC RECALLS — the moment they post. Food, kitchenware, baby products.

🦠 CDC OUTBREAK TRACKING — Salmonella, E. coli, Listeria, Norovirus clusters across the US.

💧 EPA WATER VIOLATIONS — boil-water advisories by zip code.

🔔 Push notifications when something urgent hits your city.

A few things I'm proud of:

- Each city connects to its DOH API directly (no scraping, no breakage)

- AI scoring filters noise — you only see what's actually relevant to your neighborhood

- Free recall lookup tool at alerts.getpanko.app/check (no signup needed)

Built it because I owned a NYC restaurant for 9 months and saw how scattered this data is from the operator side too. Realized diners had it even worse.

AMA — especially curious to hear from folks who actually check inspection scores before booking a table.