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The Gluten Project — Meet Google for gluten free products
The Gluten Project is the first website in the world for searching all 35,000+ certified gluten free products!
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@beedesignllc do you have backlog item that enables contributor and reviewer options?
@filiz_gokce yes, I think we'll add ability to review and/or rate products.
Is that what you were asking? I'd love to hear more about what you envision here!
@beedesignllc
Feature is look like feeding system.
Users able to add new gluten free products.
Added products are going to be verified until receiving enough approval from other users.
This is going to increase the products availability on your system.
Interesting. When my sister in law (celiac) was visiting me in the US we were unable to find an official list of allowed products. And in the supermarket you can see oatmeal that says “gluten free” when one of the forbidden products is the oat! It was so confusing.
I don’t know if in my country we’re more strict in this case or oat is really allowed.
@leech YES! That's exactly what it's like. Terrible! Hopefully this project will become a success, so we have some power to change some of this stuff.
@leech I should also add that oats are naturally gluten free. The problem is most oats are processed along with wheat and are contaminated. But if you get certified gluten free oats, then you can be confident they haven't be contaminated!
@beedesignllc This is something I learnt after seeing that in the US stores. I don't know why in my country (Argentina) oat is basically completely forbidden. In fact, the slogan of the Argentinian Celiac Association http://www.celiaco.org.ar/ is: "Sin TACC" which means "Sin Trigo, Avena, Cebada, Centeno" (translated: "Without Wheat, Oats, Barley, Rye").
Not sure if it's misinformation (I don't think so, there's a department that analyzes products searching for gluten), or a different kind of Oats in South America.
Thanks for your effort helping people get their lives a little better :)
@leech Wow that's interesting. So oats and other grains can be a "cross-reactor" for gluten and cause people problems from that. My wife has this so she can't eat gluten OR any grains.
@beedesignllc right, so it's super important about the elaboration. I assume we don't care much about that in our country :P
Both my sister and girlfriend are diagnosed celiac. Are you planning on adding links to European stores as well? And will you only add online or also offline buying opportunities?
@fishsander Good question!
US only to start, but then we want to go global. I imagine Europe would be next.
Online merchants to start, but then add local buying options too. The latter is much harder to get the data for!
I love this! My previous girlfriend's father suffered from Celiac, and she was also highly gluten intolerant. At times, it was difficult to find new and creative things we could buy for snacks and meals. Your tool seems like a nice solution! Nice work on shipping.
My friend can't consume gluten, so at parties and such, she can't eat most of the stuff there. Will be recommending this to her! Thanks @beedesignllc!
@lamaalrajih Aw yes, I totally know how she feels! We have to take my wife's food everywhere we go. Visit family – take food. Go out to eat – take food. Go on vacation – take food.
Congrats on launching Brandon! My friend is allergic to gluten, will be sharing with him. Impressive timeline on getting the MVP out the door, and cool use of Intercom before you get affiliate links up and running.
Other than affiliate links & filters, what's next?
@jrwallenberg Cool, thank you Jacob!
Things we'd like to do:
- Start a community, possibly on Spectrum.chat
- In depth articles to help folks with gluten disorders
- Visitor reviews and/or voting
- Price comparisons between merchants
- Support multiple certification organizations
- Curated list of popular products
- Local buying options instead of just online
- Worldwide support
- Mobile apps for scanning ingredient lists
- Start an award-winning gluten free publication
Actually like the concept of instantly messaging links and info on products. Maybe if intercom works, don’t change it. Very cool 👍
Nice, clean search with an impressive variety of results. Can't miss the search bar.
Will definitely share with my celiac and gluten-free friends!
@dzello thank you, Josh! And awesome work at Algolia! It’s mind blowing how fast it is!
Might be good adding contributor and reviewer option.
That will increase the community fow whole.other countries.
Pros:Easy to use, adorable...
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I love this - it's just like google but for gluten free items.
Pros:Easily search for any product and get simple results
Cons:None
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