Show HN: HypeCheck – I built a tool that fact-checks supplement marketing
HypeCheck is a new tool designed to evaluate the legitimacy of supplement marketing by fact-checking ingredients, doses, and claims against scientific research. Users can paste URLs of product pages to receive an analysis of the supplements. The tool categorizes products as legitimate, mostly legit, or overhyped based on its findings.
- ▪HypeCheck checks supplement ingredients and claims against published research.
- ▪Users can analyze product pages, landing pages, or shop links.
- ▪The tool categorizes supplements into legitimate, mostly legit, or overhyped.
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Record
| Original publisher | Hacker News (Newest) |
| Canonical URL | https://hypecheck.io/ |
| Publication time | Mon, 25 May 2026 19:24:37 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-25T19:37:40.493Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-25T19:37:40.493Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | 0aHrZa7gV-Rr |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
Is it legit or just hype? Paste a supplement URL. We check ingredients, doses, and claims against published research. Analyze Paste a product page, landing page, or shop link Trending This Week NEW Boots It's a standard SPF 50 sunscreen spray with Vitamin C and hyaluronic acid, sold under a fancy proprietary formula name. Mostly Legit NEW Thorne Magnesium Bisglycinate It's a powdered magnesium glycinate supplement — a well-absorbed form of a common mineral — with monk fruit flavoring. Mostly Legit Recent Reviews View all → Iron Bisglycinate NSF (Thorne) A 25mg iron bisglycinate supplement in chelated form designed for better absorption and fewer GI side effects.
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