Cabinet Check
A barcode scanner and home-product registry that instantly alerts you when something in your medicine cabinet, pantry, or fridge shows up on an active FDA recall list — like the recent Rohto eye drop sterility recall affecting nearly 12 million bottles.
Parents, contact lens wearers, screen-fatigue buyers, and allergy sufferers who stock OTC drops and want to know if their current bottle is safe
- Scan a barcode or enter a lot number to check recall status instantly against FDA enforcement reports
- 'My cabinet' registry that re-checks stored items whenever FDA publishes a new recall
- Lot-and-expiration parser that walks users through the Rohto-style 'is mine one of them?' flow
- Refund and return instructions plus a 'where did I buy this?' purchase-history hint
An FDA Class II recall of nearly 12 million Rohto Cooling Eye Drop bottles just hit the news with expiration dates stretching to February 2029, and consumers are searching right now for how to check their specific lot.
Real, episodic demand: Rohto recall hit 11.96M bottles and was covered by USA Today/Prevention/Eating Well; competitors cite 3,000+ food and 1,000+ drug recalls/yr with 48M Americans sickened yearly — strong burst interest but most consumers only care during incidents.Nearly 12 Million Eye Drop Bottles Recalled Nationwide ↗Recall Watch — Protect Your Family from Recalled Products ↗
Very crowded — at least 6 direct competitors already offer FDA+barcode recall matching: Recall Tracker, Kept (Is It Recalled?), RecallAlert, RecallRadar, Recall Watch, RecallScan; this exact problem is solved.Recall Tracker — Protecting Your Family from Unsafe Products ↗Is It Recalled? Free CPSC + FDA Product Recall Search ↗RecallAlert - Instant Product Safety & Recall Monitoring ↗
Proven freemium model: Recall Watch charges $4.99/mo Pro and $7.99/mo Family with 4.9/5 reviews and users saying it's 'the one subscription I would never cancel'; Kept offers free tier, showing willingness to pay exists but ceiling is modest.Pricing — Simple Plans for Every Family | Recall Watch ↗
FDA/USDA/CPSC/CDC publish recalls daily as a structural, permanent feature of consumer product safety — 3,000+ food and 1,000+ drug recalls per year ensure ongoing demand and recurring value.Recall Watch — Protect Your Family from Recalled Products ↗
Buildable but not trivial — requires UPC/barcode matching against continuously-updated federal recall feeds (FDA enforcement reports are open data); competitors have shipped working versions, proving feasibility, but real-time ingest and accurate lot-level matching add engineering work.FDA Recall Monitor — Drug, Food & Device Safety Alerts ↗