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Glycohero
Learn blood sugar basics by playing a platformer game
Glycohero is an educational game about blood sugar management. You run through themed levels, eating foods that raise/lower your blood sugar in real time. Vegetables and lean proteins give you shields and pills. Junk food spike your glucose into the danger zone. Stay in the safe range and fight a boss themed around real-world food challenges. It also provides a flashcard library covering blood sugar basics, food science, exercise, and lifestyle. Every card has reference linking to its source.
I don’t have diabetes myself, but someone in my family was diagnosed with prediabetes last year (A1C reached 6.0%, 2-hour OGTT 11 mmol/L). I spent months digging into nutrition and exercise to help her adjust her habits. About half a year later, her A1C came down to around 5.7%, without taking any medicine.
Along the way, I realized how unintuitive blood sugar management is for most people, including me at the start. The science is documented, but it's locked behind clinical PDFs and textbooks that most people who would benefit will never read.
I understand managing this every day is already hard, and I wanted to see if learning it could feel a bit less overwhelming, maybe even a little more fun.
So I built a game.
Happy to answer anything. And thanks in advance!
About Glycohero on Product Hunt
“Learn blood sugar basics by playing a platformer game”
Glycohero was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #11 on the daily leaderboard. Glycohero is an educational game about blood sugar management. You run through themed levels, eating foods that raise/lower your blood sugar in real time. Vegetables and lean proteins give you shields and pills. Junk food spike your glucose into the danger zone. Stay in the safe range and fight a boss themed around real-world food challenges. It also provides a flashcard library covering blood sugar basics, food science, exercise, and lifestyle. Every card has reference linking to its source.
On the analytics side, Glycohero competes within Health & Fitness, Education and Games — topics that collectively have 260k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Glycohero performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Glycohero?
Glycohero was hunted by Sherlock Xu. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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Sherlock Xu
I don’t have diabetes myself, but someone in my family was diagnosed with prediabetes last year (A1C reached 6.0%, 2-hour OGTT 11 mmol/L). I spent months digging into nutrition and exercise to help her adjust her habits. About half a year later, her A1C came down to around 5.7%, without taking any medicine.
Along the way, I realized how unintuitive blood sugar management is for most people, including me at the start. The science is documented, but it's locked behind clinical PDFs and textbooks that most people who would benefit will never read.
I understand managing this every day is already hard, and I wanted to see if learning it could feel a bit less overwhelming, maybe even a little more fun.
So I built a game.
Happy to answer anything. And thanks in advance!