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pillser.com
Company blog · pillser.com/engineering · on HN as lilouartzwebhealth
pillser.com is the company blog at pillser.com, writing about web and health. Since 2024, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 47 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link pillser.com for its supplement pages and an engineering post on designing a website without 404s. Commenters mostly share bare links, and one comment raises a search issue on the supplement tool.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
I am still rolling this out to other parts of the website, but here is the new 404 page format https://pillser.com/engineering/2024-06-10-website-without-4... As described elsewhere, here is how the new logic will work: - I will track which URLs are associated with which products - If user hits 404, I will check if there was previously a product associated with that URL and redirect accordingly - If it is a new 404,…
Comment linking /engineering/2024-06-10-website-without-404
on “Designing a website without 404s”Submitted Designing a website without 404s as a story · 112 points
HN discussionhttps://pillser.com/supplements/seratonin
Comment linking /supplements/seratonin
on “Designing a website without 404s”Submitted Speeding Up Your Website Using Cloudflare Cache as a story · 83 points
HN discussionTheir own 404-page. https://pillser.com/engineering/2023-06-10-website-without-4...
Comment linking /engineering/2023-06-10-website-without-404s
on “Designing a website without 404s”Submitted Show HN: I built Pillser to make supplement shopping easier and more transparent as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttps://pillser.com/supplements/WTF
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on “Designing a website without 404s”Submitted Show HN: Personalized nutrition advice using ChatGPT, backed by research papers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWell nice proof of concept, but probably this is not what you intended? https://pillser.com/supplements/fuck Maybe better create a 404 page that shows some "Did you mean..." content?
Comment linking /supplements/fuck
on “Designing a website without 404s”Submitted Show HN: Pillser Ask – personalized AI nutrition assistant as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> https://pillser.com/engineering/yeah%20right 404 Not Found Nothing to see here. Pillser
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on “Designing a website without 404s”Submitted Detecting Element Visibility Using CSS as a story · 2 points
HN discussionOops, I fat-fingered a URL for serotonin and ended up with a sleeping pill instead: https://pillser.com/supplements/merotonin I am surprised that more websites do not implement this!
Comment linking /supplements/merotonin
on “Designing a website without 404s”Submitted Show HN: Spreadsheet-Like Supplement Comparison as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis is just begging for trolls to construct dodgy URLs for lulz - https://pillser.com/supplements/trump-won-the-election - https://pillser.com/supplements/hitler-did-nothing-wrong - https://pillser.com/supplements/9-11-was-an-inside-job etc etc etc
Comment linking /supplements/9-11-was-an-inside-job
on “Designing a website without 404s”Submitted Show HN: I've been using AI to analyze every supplement on the market as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI half like the idea. I do think that it's ok for several URLs to point to the same content. In his example all three are fine. I also tried the product code (6066) without any of the text and it worked fine as well. I've also noticed Lego's site does a version of this as well. https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/10334 will take you to the product page for the Retro Radio. However, I think Lego's site is just keying…
Comment linking /supplements/go-fuck-yourself
on “Designing a website without 404s”Submitted Auto Indexing of URLs via Google API as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIt definitely has a 404 response, though: https://pillser.com/engineering/failure%20mode
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on “Designing a website without 404s”Submitted Speeding Up Your Website Using Fastify and Redis Cache as a story · 1 points
HN discussionpillser.com/supplements/vitamin-1973-omg-i-can-type-anything-here-and-it-still-works-i-dont-think-this-is-good-idea clickable: https://pillser.com/supplements/vitamin-1973-omg-i-can-type-...
Comment linking /supplements/vitamin-1973-omg-i-can-type-anything-here-and-it-still-works-i-dont-think-this-is-good-idea
on “Designing a website without 404s”Submitted Security Auditing Your Website: Preparing for HIPAA Compliance as a story · 1 points
HN discussionEnded up ditching Cloudflare for this use case https://pillser.com/engineering/2024-08-26-speeding-up-your-...
Comment linking /engineering/2024-08-26-speeding-up-your-website-using-fastify-and-redis-cache
on “Speeding Up Your Website Using Cloudflare Cache”Submitted How to Read Supplement Facts Label as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThank you – With regards to your suggestions about attribution: The whole premise of Pillser is that every single health claim of any sorts is backed by research papers. Example: Let's say you are exploring this probiotic: https://pillser.com/supplements/spore-probiotic-6066 It makes claim that it helps with Reduced Abdominal Discomfort: which then links to all the research papers that establish a relationship (or n…
on “My side project was annihilated by Google”Submitted Show HN: Nutrition chatbot trained on scientific research as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIt's been 3 months in the making and a journey started with an exchange on HN. I couldn't be happier to share progress! What is Pillser? Pillser aggregates data from thousands of research papers and about thousands of supplements, bridging the gap between scientific research and consumers. Our goal is to provide easy access to unbiased information on supplements and nutrition, empowering you to make informed health…
Comment linking /ai-powered-supplement-research-and-comparison
on “Show HN: Pillser Ask – personalized AI nutrition assistant”Submitted Deciding Breakpoints Server-Side Using SEC-CH-Viewport-Width as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI know Examine.com, and I've spoken to the founder a few times. I really appreciate what they are doing. I am very open about how the site is planning to be monetized https://pillser.com/affiliate-disclosure
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on “Show HN: I've been using AI to analyze every supplement on the market”Submitted Optimizing Image Loading with AVIF Placeholders for Enhanced Performance as a story · 1 points
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