Hey Product Hunt!
Very simply: I was sick of all my friends constantly asking me for tips on picking out their produce, so I decided to put all of my (admittedly quite deep) knowledge on the topic into one handy place.
🤓 All the details you need for nearly 100 different types of produce, from fruits to vegetables to herbs
🤳 Mobile-first design, for easy use at the grocery store
🖤 Dark mode
🔎 Search by PLU number functionality from the landing page (thats the 4 or 5 digit code you’ll often see in grocery stores, especially on stickers)
😇 Callouts to produce that are part of the “Dirty Dozen”, letting you know which items are best to buy organic
‼️ Some useful storage and cleaning tips
🤔 There are a few alternative names built in as well, so if you might call it something else — like rapini instead of broccoli rabe — you’ll still be safe via the search function
Whats Next?
📱Full PWA capabilities coming very soon
😋 More content on more types of produce!
🍄 Tips for choosing all your favorite fungi
🌶 More spicy content for all your favorite capsicums
📖 Pages for more specialty ingredients, like asian veggies — and they’ll be the first ones I actually need to research!
💥 Some more very fun functionalities are in the pipeline, so stay tuned
Shoutout to @bbbear for her wonderful illustrations that are very central to the design (and ultimately come from the larger Open Farm project) as well as @warpling for turning me on to them (and ultimately sparking this entire idea!) with his Every Plant, Ever sticker pack for iMessage.
So now I need you all to let me know what produce I’ve missed — and if there are any other tips that I should feature here too!
PS: before you say it, I know — tomatoes and avocado are both actually fruits. 🙄
@bbbear@moesalama amazing dude!! This is such a fun “remix” if I can even call it that! As a super visual person I’d love to see a visual grid of the icons on the home page under search or something as well to pick from or that could be filtered live while typing :)
Help Me Choose My Fruit & Veg!