Oli is a pregnancy safety scanner. Scan a barcode, search by name, or photograph an ingredient label — get a clear answer in seconds: safe, caution, or avoid. Personalized to your trimester. Works on food, skincare, cleaning products, supplements, and more. Powered by AI informed by FDA, NHS, and OB-GYN research. Free to try, no credit card needed. iPhone only (Android coming soon).
Hey Product Hunt! 👋
I built Oli because my wife and I got tired of the "is this safe during pregnancy?" Google spiral. You search one ingredient, get 10 conflicting answers, and end up more anxious than when you started.
Oli gives you one clear answer — safe, caution, or avoid — for every ingredient, personalized to your trimester.
The thing I'm most proud of: it works on everything, not just food. Skincare, cleaning products, supplements, hair care. My wife's favorite moment was when she scanned her face cream and discovered it had retinol — something she had no idea to avoid.
The tech: Expo (React Native), Supabase, Claude API for safety classification, and data from Open Food Facts + FDA.
Would love your feedback — especially from anyone who's been through this. What did I miss? What would make this more useful?
— Felipe
Good idea. Question on accountability though. The answer comes from Claude as you mention. If by any chance it makes a mistake and a pregnant woman gets some health/pregnancy issue, who is to blaim? Or is there some banner/disclaimer that you use on your own risk or something like that?
Congrats on the launch! This is such a good idea. We built something similar for food with Biteme (AI scanning for calories) so I know how tricky getting the recognition right is. Love that it's personalized by trimester. One thought, a landing page or website outside the App Store would probably help a lot with SEO and conversions. Right now the only link goes straight to the App Store which can lose people who want to learn more first. Are you planning to expand beyond pregnancy into general food safety?
the barcode scanning is smart - navigating ingredient lists during pregnancy is genuinely overwhelming. curious how accurate the AI gets with edge cases where research is still evolving? seems like the kind of thing where being overly cautious is probably the right call.
Congrats on the launch
I was wondering what type of barcodes would work? and can it work globally? if so, how do you make sure you get the data for most products
Congrats on the launch!
@pipe_abello how do you handle cases where FDA and NHS actually disagree on the same ingredient?
