Soylent Campaign

#1

Post by nkh » Tue, May 21, 2013, 6:28 PM UTC

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#2

Post by Afforess » Tue, May 21, 2013, 6:43 PM UTC

Looking forward to this. There has been a lot of FUD, and I think some of it is valid, so I'm choosing the 1 week supply option to give it a try. I'd like to replace 1 of my meals each day with this, I hate having to deal with cooking and cleaning up in small temporary apartments.

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#3

Post by mscottmcbee » Tue, May 21, 2013, 6:45 PM UTC

I've been following this for a while, and I'm excited to see it start to come together. I hope a lot of people aren't turned off by this pseudo Kickstarter, and wonder why Kickstarter turned them down in the first place.

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#4

Post by drharris » Tue, May 21, 2013, 6:52 PM UTC

mscottmcbee wrote: post #3

I've been following this for a while, and I'm excited to see it start to come together. I hope a lot of people aren't turned off by this pseudo Kickstarter, and wonder why Kickstarter turned them down in the first place.

I imagine Kickstarter turned them down because of potential liability if something goes wrong. Replacing food with chemicals makes sense to scientists and engineers, but I imagine this has the potential to be lawsuit-heavy for the average people out there (my back aches, must be the Soylent).

Edit: specifically, these two guidelines:

- Projects cannot offer financial, medical, or health advice.

- No tobacco, drugs, and drug paraphernalia; energy food and drinks; or nutritional supplements.

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#5

Post by russelluresti » Tue, May 21, 2013, 6:57 PM UTC

I've been following the Soylent articles since they were posted and have been pretty interested in it. Definitely going to have to give thought to backing this.

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#6

Post by Fuzzwah » Tue, May 21, 2013, 6:58 PM UTC

www.soylent.me doesn't work.

http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/www.soylent.me

Re: Soylent Campaign

#7

Post by DanBC » Tue, May 21, 2013, 6:58 PM UTC

Afforess wrote: post #2

Looking forward to this. There has been a lot of FUD, and I think some of it is valid, so I'm choosing the 1 week supply option to give it a try. I'd like to replace 1 of my meals each day with this, I hate having to deal with cooking and cleaning up in small temporary apartments.

I hope you enjoy it! It'd be interesting to hear how you get on.

If you decide you don't like soylent there are a bunch of other products from other more mainstream manufacturers.

Fortisip and Ensure are the two brands I'm most familiar with, but there are others. Fortisip do wide range of different style products (shake, juice, yoghurt, and 'savory'.) But it's an acquired taste.

I'm not sure why they have two trailing slashes. (https://www.nutricia.co.uk/fortisip//)

(http://ensure.com/)

Re: Soylent Campaign

#8

Post by gcb0 » Tue, May 21, 2013, 6:58 PM UTC

Still doesn't answer how this is much different than just another kind of diet shake.

Re: Soylent Campaign

#9

Post by gcb0 » Tue, May 21, 2013, 7:03 PM UTC

Anyone ever heard of the kickstarter clone they are using? http://www.crowdhoster.com/

it seems to just be a implementation of Selfstarter with a backend to process payments, but at the same time they boast "Free to use"... how can a payment processing be free?

Re: Soylent Campaign

#10

Post by mc-lovin » Tue, May 21, 2013, 7:04 PM UTC

gcb0 wrote: post #8

Still doesn't answer how this is much different than just another kind of diet shake.

It's a diet shake where the seller goes "you know what, fuck it, I don't recommend that you eat a balanced diet, and I do recommend you replace all your meals with this shake"