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Panko Alerts
Real-time food safety alerts, filtered to your city
Every major US city publishes restaurant health inspections — almost no one looks. NYC inspects ~25K restaurants/year. Panko Alerts pulls live inspections from NYC, LA, Chicago, SF & Boston (direct from city DOH APIs), plus FDA recalls, CDC outbreaks, EPA water violations, and NYC 311 complaints. Filtered to your city, scored by AI, delivered as push notifications. Free recall lookup at alerts.getpanko.app/check. 7-day free trial. $4.99/mo, web-only signup.
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
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.
About Panko Alerts on Product Hunt
“Real-time food safety alerts, filtered to your city”
Panko Alerts was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #142 on the daily leaderboard. Every major US city publishes restaurant health inspections — almost no one looks. NYC inspects ~25K restaurants/year. Panko Alerts pulls live inspections from NYC, LA, Chicago, SF & Boston (direct from city DOH APIs), plus FDA recalls, CDC outbreaks, EPA water violations, and NYC 311 complaints. Filtered to your city, scored by AI, delivered as push notifications. Free recall lookup at alerts.getpanko.app/check. 7-day free trial. $4.99/mo, web-only signup.
On the analytics side, Panko Alerts competes within Artificial Intelligence, Food & Drink and Health — topics that collectively have 476.4k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Panko Alerts performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
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Alex Lee
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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.