One search box
Search by product name or registration number in the same field.
Founder projectMobile-first web app
Proofly.ng.
Know it’s real before you buy it.
A mobile-first app for checking whether a medicine is genuine against official regulatory records, with community reports kept clearly apart.
- ROLE
- Founder, product designer and engineer
- MARKET
- Nigerian shoppers
- STARTS WITH
- Medicines, then drinks, food and cosmetics
- STATUS
- In development
THE HEADLINE
Evidence, not verdicts
Shows what was verified, what wasn’t, and where every claim came from
- 1
- search box for a name or registration number
- 0
- AI in the verification decision
- 100%
- of fields carry their source
01 · The problem
A fake looks exactly like the real thing.
Counterfeit and substandard medicines sit on the same shelves as genuine ones, and shoppers have no quick way to check what they’re holding. Proofly puts official records and other shoppers’ reports one search away.
02 · What I built
Search, check, report, follow up.
Official records
Checks a product against regulatory records and shows exactly what matched.
Community reports
A step-by-step report flow, moderated before anything is public.
Photo uploads
Camera or gallery, upload progress with retry, and reading registration and batch numbers from a photo.
Built for real networks
Skeleton screens, a slow-connection banner with cached results, and a clear retry when a load fails.
Privacy controls
Blur faces and numbers before posting, and upload only on Wi-Fi.
03 · Key decisions
Careful with the truth.
Reports are not verdicts
Not found in NAFDAC is never the same as fake. The result type has no FAKE or GENUINE value, and a test fails the build if one is ever added.
Jurisdiction is mandatory
FDA approval means approval in the United States. Nigerian and international records are kept separate in the API and on the page.
04 · Stack
Under the hood.
Backend
- NestJS 11
- GraphQL
- TypeORM
- PostgreSQL
Frontend
- Next.js 16
- React 19
- Chakra UI v3
- Apollo Client
Quality
- Playwright
- i18n
- Docker
- Naijacloud
05 · Results
What it added up to.
- 5
- Rules every feature has to follow
- 0
- Unattributed claims the UI can render
- Moderated
- Every community report, before it’s public
Next case study · 04
An EHR that writes the notes
Building something people need to trust?
I design careful, mobile-first products end to end.