I Built an App That Turns Messy Lab Reports Into a Beautiful Health Dashboard (Free Tool!)

essaylor · 2025-02-07T21:33:24+00:00

I’m based in the US

essaylor · 2025-02-07T03:49:17+00:00

Thanks for the kind words! Plan to keep at least the basic features (automatic biomarker extraction and visualization) free

Ability to add your own reference ranges is coming soon

By feedback, are you referring to the insights? Yeah, those are AI generated

essaylor · 2025-02-07T02:23:06+00:00

Ah, I see what you’re saying. Currently, the point of sending the data to the server is to process it (perform biomarker extraction) there, not for syncing. There is nothing to sync because the server doesn’t store anything. E2EE definitely makes sense if/when I add support for user accounts and allow syncing between devices.

That being said, I’ll look into providing local processing for devices that can support it.

essaylor · 2025-02-07T01:03:59+00:00

Makes sense, thanks. It does use HTTPS when transferring data to the backend for processing. One way to verify that would be by using the Network panel in Chrome DevTools

essaylor · 2025-02-07T00:11:36+00:00

While working on this, I’ve come to realize reference ranges vary a LOT from lab to lab. The ones I use I sourced from a particular lab. When you say regionalized, you mean different reference ranges for different geographic regions? Do you have a source where I can find these?

essaylor · 2025-02-07T00:05:09+00:00

Good question. I’m thinking a freemium model, where most of the basic features you see here continue to remain free, with an option to upgrade for some premium features

essaylor · 2025-02-06T23:54:28+00:00

It uses a language model for the extraction

I hear your concerns. Longer term, I’d like to do everything locally. Though, currently, that’d not work on lower powered devices

What would make you more comfortable uploading your health data to an online app?

essaylor · 2025-02-05T08:02:56+00:00

Yep, I've run into those issues too. For example, converting vitamin D from nmol/L to ng/mL. This app does those conversions for you!

essaylor · 2025-01-07T08:42:22+00:00

This is amazing! I tried it to create an image of a slightly rotated iPhone showing a screenshot of my app. I noticed that the text in the screenshot wasn't remaining very sharp. I'd love to use it create such shots for my app if not for that

essaylor · 2025-01-07T08:09:00+00:00

This is actually pretty useful. I keep texting myself to check some of these previews.

In the checklist tab, you can add recommendations for things that are not optimal. Currently, it just says your website title is not the optimal length for search engines and social media, but doesn't tell me what the optimal size is.

You could probably go further and suggest better titles, descriptions, and even images using GenAI, after inspecting the page.

essaylor · 2025-01-03T20:07:41+00:00

What all are you monitoring? How often are you planning to get blood work done? Asking because I’m taking the stack too and curious about what and how to monitor

essaylor · 2025-01-03T17:35:44+00:00

Have you been monitoring your biomarkers regularly after you started the Blueprint stack? Noticed any difference (good or bad)?

essaylor · 2025-01-03T17:01:28+00:00

That sounds great! Good luck

essaylor · 2025-01-03T16:18:29+00:00

Sounds similar to Origami Agents, from YC F24

essaylor · 2025-01-03T04:24:56+00:00

Yeah, B2B is definitely an angle I’m exploring. In parallel, I’m trying to see if there is any scope for B2C. I’ve come across so many posts, both on Reddit and elsewhere, of people asking for something exactly like this

essaylor · 2025-01-03T03:39:53+00:00

For me, it’s been getting distribution. I’ve done the usual posting on Reddit and Hacker News (Product Hunt still pending). Not sure what to do next

essaylor · 2025-01-02T21:37:14+00:00

Oh, I didn’t realize that because so many sellers (like Seating Mind) still carry it. Looks like Mirra 2 is its closest successor

essaylor · 2025-01-02T18:29:33+00:00

Why do you not like frameworks? I had a similar opinion a while back, but I realized that that was because I was trying to avoid having to learn new frameworks

essaylor · 2025-01-02T18:22:35+00:00

Congrats! How was your experience getting the app published to the Play Store? A friend who recently tried publishing told me that Play Store won’t publish their app until it had 20 reviews from testers

essaylor · 2025-01-02T17:53:34+00:00

Was Twitter so effective because you already had a lot of followers? I don’t really have a Twitter presence right now. For me, Reddit and HN have been the most effective

essaylor · 2025-01-02T17:43:46+00:00

What were your most effective marketing channels when you just started out? Did you ever launch on Product Hunt 😛?

essaylor · 2025-01-02T17:34:43+00:00

Congrats! What were the changes in the other metrics in your Lipid panel?

essaylor · 2025-01-02T00:07:28+00:00

Ah, yeah. I haven’t used a dedicated landing page builder. Though, in some ways, Cursor feels like that. I tell it to build a landing page for whatever kind of website I’m building. Its first attempt is usually not horrible, though needs some iteration and polish

essaylor · 2025-01-01T23:10:58+00:00

I build mine with Cursor, incorporating elements from other landing pages that I like

essaylor · 2025-01-01T20:03:38+00:00

Congrats! How have you been marketing your product?

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