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Fake food delivery site for the dopamine

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Re: Fake food delivery site for the dopamine

#53

I was really hoping to add some fries, a drink and to customize my burger. Not that I customize my burger except maybe take off the pickles or remove the ice from my drink, but it adds to the dopamine factor.

This is a key part of it - all the decision making, just like choosing the food, but making it yours.

Re: Fake food delivery site for the dopamine

#54
post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The link is to the BingeEatingDisorder subreddit. From the link, > I know that at least for me, the actual process of ordering food delivery is part of the addiction

I'm seeing a business opportunity for a gambling site where it is extremely cheap to play, but the payout is always 0 dollars.

Hm, or even a gambling site that uses real money but where you always get your money back, eventually.

Re: Fake food delivery site for the dopamine

#57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm seeing a business opportunity for a gambling site where it is extremely cheap to play, but the payout is always 0 dollars.

Hm, or even a gambling site that uses real money but where you always get your money back, eventually.

There were fintechs that did this, I think yotta and one other that was acquired by a big bank. I think it was (is?) popular but if I remember correctly they lost customer funds because of Synapses failure and the way the customer funds were organized they weren’t insured.

Re: Fake food delivery site for the dopamine

#59
post #25

> It's just to replicate the ritual of ordering food and give you the dopamine that the real process gives you. I’m confused. How does the food-ordering process give you dopamine? It generally just gives me anxiety due to the uncertainties involved, until the food arrives in good condition, which here it won’t.

Do you get anxious when you order at a restaurant? There is the same exact uncertainty there compared to ordering ahead by 10 minutes while you are on the way there.

There is a very different uncertainty with a far shorter loop to remedy any problems. I have never sat in a restaurant thinking that [any food delivery-specific failure mode] will arise.
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