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Launch HN: RonanRX (YC S26) – Personalized Peptides and GLP-1s

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Re: Launch HN: RonanRX (YC S26) – Personalized Peptides and GLP-1s

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You manufacture the drugs yourself? That's impressive, and it feels like an interesting company. Your website sucks though. We can tell you vibe coded it quickly and didn't put much thought into it.

Yes, we incorporated the business 10 weeks ago, and we've been focusing everything on the infrastructure of the actual product people are getting. These messages are very helpful, though, to help motivate me to get our team to fix this, so I do appreciate it.

I think you should focus on the fundamentals, this kind of feedback is inevitable and I'm sure you anticipated it anyways.

Re: Launch HN: RonanRX (YC S26) – Personalized Peptides and GLP-1s

#12

Looks interesting. What's your plan on the legal front? Bet the company on the compounding lawsuits breaking in your favor, or do you have a backup plan? BTW: when you say you manufacture the drugs, I assume that means you're buying from an API supplier, but do you actually mean you're synthesizing it yourself?

We are co-manufacturing the API, and then we are bringing it in-house in the next 9 months.

The legal cutout that we have is on the personalization front, which is very well protected. The trick is that most compounders are not actually personalizing, and we are. Our feedback loop allows us to do real personalization on a week-by-week basis.

Re: Launch HN: RonanRX (YC S26) – Personalized Peptides and GLP-1s

#13

Hey, I love the idea and the fully integrated approach! The feedback loop sounds great, and overall far better than the pretty generic companies I've dealt with for GLP before. I've led building an EHR totally from scratch at one company and currently advising another as they build their EHR, both totally integrated approaches in industries where you usually have lots of disconnected care (adolescent serious mental i…

I will reach out. Thank you!

Re: Launch HN: RonanRX (YC S26) – Personalized Peptides and GLP-1s

#14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, we incorporated the business 10 weeks ago, and we've been focusing everything on the infrastructure of the actual product people are getting. These messages are very helpful, though, to help motivate me to get our team to fix this, so I do appreciate it.

I think you should focus on the fundamentals, this kind of feedback is inevitable and I'm sure you anticipated it anyways.

Building a startup, everything is important, but you do have to stack rank. This is getting to the point where it's probably the most important thing. And it won't take that long to fix.

Re: Launch HN: RonanRX (YC S26) – Personalized Peptides and GLP-1s

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I think most people on gray market GLPs will vary their dose, take tolerance breaks, etc to meet their personal weight loss goals, this stuff isn't that complicated. Where I think where the real technology opportunity is, is having a personalized endocrinologist for TRT/HRT. Bodybuilders have incredibly sophisticated trackers with hormone/ester PK models and the ability to adjust and tune your personal model based on bloodwork results. Most men's clinic, online or in person, are nowhere near as advanced. Prescribing for most of these guys is binary, or adjusting your dose is something that's done in response to some sort of a problem like hematocrit or gyno, rather than trying to keep levels in-line with whatever health goal you have. I don't think most guys really need the full TRT dose of 140 mg/week to feel energetic again, but depending on your fitness goals you can go well beyond that safely as long as you are paying close attention. There have been a couple of "high tech HRT" apps but I don't think they are really all that sophisticated, maybe daily dosing or includes a tasso device or whatever, but nothing afaik with multi-hormone PK modeling and testing feedback, so it could be right up your alley.

Re: Launch HN: RonanRX (YC S26) – Personalized Peptides and GLP-1s

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post #16

Familiar name. Same guy who made the masks during COVID-19?

Second paragraph:

  The path to RonanRx is fairly unconventional. During the pandemic, I built one of the largest mask manufacturing factories in the US. We could make a million masks in a day. We converted raw polypropylene pellets into finished pallets of masks.
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