I built an app with my wife to help expecting moms check product safety in seconds
Hey Indie Hackers 👋
When my wife got pregnant, we were constantly unsure which products were safe for her to use. Our bathroom cabinet was full of lotions, serums, and makeup products with ingredient lists we couldn’t pronounce, let alone vet. Googling everything one at time took forever, and we never remembered what we just read as each ingredient can have a complex name.
That’s when we thought: there has to be a better way
So we built it.
📱 SafeMom is an AI powered app that helps expecting moms (and their partners!) quickly scan any product, whether cosmetics, supplements, skincare, or packaged foods, and instantly see if it’s safe to use during pregnancy.
Just snap a photo. The app identifies the product, pulls the ingredients, and flags anything that could be a concern during pregnancy. No more guessing or Googling long chemical names.
We just launched on the App Store and Play Store and we’d love feedback from the IH community, especially if you’ve built health focused apps, used AI in a similar way, or are parents yourselves.
Let me know what you think or what you’d improve.
Thanks for support!
Now this is a real problem you're solving. It's very similar to another useful app, for food inspection.
Sometimes you just need to know what it is you're consuming and it's very painful trying to research each and every one.
Imagine if you're on a budget and can't buy many brands to try out which is the best. You can't start googling every ingredient in every product there in the supermarket.
I use such an app quite often for food and cosmetics and such an app tailored for expecting mothers, I can only imagine the help it'd be.
Very timely! We are expecting! :)
Congratulations! Very exciting time!
This is a product that shows love for one's wife! I hope this product will be helpful to many pregnant women.
What a great idea! This is a real problem for new parents. How do you source the data for product safety? Is it from official sources or user-generated?
We use data from a number of sources, and had to come up with some specific instructions for the AI. For example, we had to figure out how to train it tell the difference between an alcoholic beverage and something like rubbing alcohol which can be fine. Tried to avoid user generated content for reliable sources.
Love what you’ve built — very cool use case for simplifying a painful, repetitive process that most people don’t even realize takes so much time.
I had a similar pain in a totally different space: I watch tons of long-form YouTube content (lectures, podcasts, interviews…) and wanted to turn them into notes for my personal knowledge base.
Copy-pasting transcripts manually was a nightmare. So I built a small web tool to automate transcript extraction from any YouTube video, playlist, or full channel — with clean exports (txt, csv, json, srt, vtt), metadata, and timestamps if needed.
Like you said: "there has to be a better way" 😄
Happy to share a link if anyone's curious.
Congrats! Many mothers, especially first time mothers, worry about lots of things and i feel that this is something thats solving an issue that so many people would have sleepless nights about. Great idea and well executed!