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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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Post by arjie »

derektank wrote: post #18
arjie wrote: post #16

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

Second paragraph, “During the pandemic, I built one of the largest mask manufacturing factories in the US”

Haha, entirely my fault but the default font greys out the text so I always just click through to the site instead of reading the Launch HN / Show HN copy. Regardless, I will take my well-deserved brickbats.

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

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Post by lloydarmbrust »

anonymous391084 wrote: post #15

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…

The dosing starts out surprisingly simple. The magic is in the feedback loop: asking the patient how they're feeling, if they're getting the effects they want, and then having their doctor review and approve a new dose.

Point taken that RUO people are just yoloing this, I was one of them. Now, I can tell you that having a doctor in the loop with my health is very helpful.

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

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Post by lloydarmbrust »

rootsudo wrote: post #8

You know the answer was obvious and I didn’t think to submit this to ycombinator since the idea is basically you’re front running a compounding pharmacies. This is combining a compounding pharmacy and an MSO. At the same time, nothing is stopping you from hiring a fractional medical director and doctors alongside NP. I ran the numbers and 50k is is all you need to get a service agreement with a compounding pharmacy,…

You seem to know a lot about this, and I was nodding along with a lot of your points as I was reading.

I was Stripe's first customer in 2010, so we solved the credit card processing issue :) it turns out that being in YC is good for more than just money.

You are right about HIPAA, everyone thinks this is much harder than it actually is, but GCP, OpenAI, Linq, everyone has given us a BAA.

We're definitely not trying to go after the market of people that are comfortable buying from Chinese suppliers and risking their health. When I built my mask factory, our masks were absolutely more expensive than Chinese masks, but what people were buying was a guarantee that it would meet certain filtration requirements. Some people are willing to pay for safety, but it's not important to everyone.

The only thing I really disagree with with you on is that this isn't a YC-scale company.

We are growing 56% compounded week -over-week, and I have every expectation we'll do $10 million this year, $100 million next.

We are making something that people are already buying and getting it to them in a safer, more cost-effective way.

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

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Post by andy99 »

didgeoridoo wrote: post #2

Please have a human rewrite your site copy. Literally every second sentence is a Claudish rhetorical contrastive. Maybe shallow/unfair, but especially when dealing with something medical I’d love to know that it’s not slop all the way down.

It’s funny, it’s obviously understandable why someone would vibe code a placeholder website, we’ve all probably done it. But I’m realizing a basic unstyled html thing with minimal copy is probably a better signal at this point for startups, it makes it clear you are still working on it rather than giving up the impression you might think your vibeslop is the finished product.

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

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Post by lloydarmbrust »

andsoitis wrote: post #27

I'm a big fan of, and customer of AgelessRx - https://agelessrx.com Good luck with your venture!

This is a really beautiful site. Thank you for sharing it.

I think the only thing that separates us is that we manufacture the drugs and probably own more of the supply chain than they do. But they're doing a much better job on the front end.

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

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Post by andsoitis »

lloydarmbrust wrote: post #28
andsoitis wrote: post #27

I'm a big fan of, and customer of AgelessRx - https://agelessrx.com Good luck with your venture!

This is a really beautiful site. Thank you for sharing it. I think the only thing that separates us is that we manufacture the drugs and probably own more of the supply chain than they do. But they're doing a much better job on the front end.

You're welcome.

Yeah, they are pretty polished. But I've been with them for a few years and in the beginning their site was very much not polished, however, their products, service, and focus were a beacon.

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