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Products that do what I Built AskMedically – Get Research-Backed Answers to Medical Queries does
Hi HN, I’ve built AskMedically – an AI-powered assistant that answers health and medical questions using real research papers from trusted medical sources like PubMed, Cochrane, etc. Whether you’re a healthcare enthusiast, patient, student, or professional – AskMedically helps you explore trusted medical knowledge without needing a medical degree or slogging through dozens of PDFs. Examples: • “Does intermittent fasting improve insulin sensitivity?” • “What are the benefits of creatine for brain health?” • “Is ashwagandha safe to take long-term?” • “How does ADHD present in adult women?” •…
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Hi HN, As a researcher, I often found myself struggling with the limitations of keyword-based search when exploring PubMed papers. To address this, I created PubMed Search (https://www.pubmedisearch.com/), a tool that leverages a vector database to enable semantic search across medical research literature. Some key features: * Daily updates to ensure access to the latest articles * Semantic search using latest & greatest embedding models * Some additional useful info about the papers (tldr, journal, publication date, etc.) Hope you find it useful!
2024 · pubmedisearch.com
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Ask health questions across your records, labs, wearables
Apr 2026 · perplexity.ai
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I have some chronic medical conditions, and spend a lot of time asking about different drugs and supplements. Wanted to create a resource that others might get value from. It's trained to always provide citations, and to urge people to see their doctor before making major decisions. Open for feedback.
2024 · agenthost.ai
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Hi HN, I’m a solo dev building a clinical search engine to help my wife (a resident physician) and her colleagues. The Problem: Current tools (UpToDate/OpenEvidence) are expensive, slow, or increasingly heavy with pharma ads. The Solution: I built Evidex to be a clean, privacy-first alternative. Search Demo (GIF): https://imgur.com/a/zoUvINt Technical Architecture (Search-Based RAG): Instead of using a traditional pre-indexed vector database (like Pinecone) which can serve stale data, I implemented a Real-time RAG pattern: Orchestrator: A Node.js backend performs…
Dec 2025 · getevidex.com
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I've always been an avid listener of health-related podcasts (e.g. Dr. Huberman), and so me and a friend got together to build a tool where you can ask any health-related question, and it'll give you summarized insights from podcasts by experts in health and medical research. Check it out and let us know what can be improved!
2023 · aihealthquery.com
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Hi HN, I’d like to share MediSearch with you. A few months ago, I had a knee injury and got several surgery options from doctors. I had to make an important decision, but the medical information search experience was terrible. The sites I found either did not answer my questions (long health blogs) or were too technical to easily understand (scientific papers). This gave me and my friend the idea for MediSearch. Our goal is to build a system that provides direct accurate answers to medical questions based on trustworthy sources. We’d like to make MediSearch helpful to everyone and we still…
2023 · medisearch.io
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Hey HN! This has been my project for a few years now. I recently brought it back to life after taking a pause to focus on my studies. My goal with this project is to separate fluff from science when shopping for supplements. I am doing this in 3 steps: 1.) I index every supplement on the market (extract each ingredient, normalize by quantity) 2.) I index every research paper on supplementation (rank every claim by effect type and effect size) 3.) I link data between supplements and research papers Earlier last year, I took pause on a project because I've ran into a few issues: Legal: Shady…
Jan 2026 · pillser.com
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AI that reads your page, sees it, and gives context answers.
Dec 2025
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We are super excited to release our latest open-source demo, Healthsearch. This demo decodes user reviews of supplements and performs semantic- and generative search on them, retrieving the most related products for specific health effects, and leveraging Large Language Models to generate product and review summaries. The demo can understand natural language queries and derive all search filters directly from the context of your query.
2023 · github.com
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Clear medical explanations for med-students and clinicians
Mar 2026 · askfleming.perkily.io
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Do you find it hard to take decisions? Presenting helpmedecide https://helpmedecide.ingau.me , a toy project which helps you reach decisions faster. Type in what’s bothering you and it will ask you a few questions. At the end, you are presented with a sound decision. Please try it out and let me know your feedback and suggestions!
2024 · helpmedecide.ingau.me
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Hello HN! I’d like to share a medical question-answering API which has state-of-the-art performance on the USMLE self-assessment exam. You can try out the MediSearch API in 10 seconds in this Colab [https://tinyurl.com/medisearch-colab], or test the search engine live at MediSearch [https://medisearch.io]. See our API page [https://medisearch.io/api] to apply for access. Some technical highlights: 1. State-of-the-art accuracy of 92% on the USMLE self-assessment exam [https://tinyurl.com/medisearch-eval]. 2. Ranked 2nd on MedQA benchmark,…
2023 · medisearch.io
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Evidence-based supplement advice from real PubMed studies
Jun 2026 · supplements-ai.vercel.app
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I am working on an AI that uses multiple LLM based agents to do medical research on any topic you choose! The program terminates after a set number of iterations and all of the findings are saved. Still a work in progress but it is showing some promising results imho! Would love to receive any critical and constructive feedback, collaborate, Review your PRs, or discuss your ideas!!
2023 · github.com
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Link: http://www.distilbio.com DistilBio lets you look up detailed information on drugs, diseases, proteins etc. You can ask questions like "Find drugs which interact with Tylenol, and proteins which are targeted by these drugs", or build more complex queries if you like. While it is targeted at scientists in the life sciences field, we've found that many people like finding out more about drugs they're using, diseases they know about etc. We're continuing to add more data and make it more useful for the layman too. We thought we'd like to show our app to HN users and solicit feedback before…
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Hi HN, We're Arindam and Julien and we're building AskMore.ai. AskMore uses an AI to run user interviews on your behalf. We like to think about it as a new user research method that sits between traditional user interviews and user surveys: It's as easy as sending a survey link but the AI will adapt to the user answers, follow up and dig deeper to provide you with insights as deep as what you'd get in a user interview. We got the idea after a lot of struggles to get feedback on our other side projects. We couldn't get many user interviews (low response rate, long delays to schedule calls),…
2023 · askmore.ai
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