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Launch HN: Nutrigene (YC W18) – Tailor-made liquid supplements using health data

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Re: Launch HN: Nutrigene (YC W18) – Tailor-made liquid supplements using health data

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Post by vancanwin »

ComodoHacker wrote: post #29

Nice idea, but... Do you realise that if you do succeed, sooner or later your customers' health data will be owned by some big corp like Google and very likely misused/abused? Do you have any plans about protecting them?

Our vision is to keep your data as your personal insights. My data is on there as well, so I hope this doesn't end up in the wrong hands.

What we are doing now is further developing our encryption and HIPAA compliance service to make sure your data at least stays secure.

Re: Launch HN: Nutrigene (YC W18) – Tailor-made liquid supplements using health data

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Post by listic »

vancanwin wrote: post #10
caio1982 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I sort of guessed about it being US-only when I saw inches and lbs so perhaps in that same page should be okay :-) I hope I can try it someday!

We are looking to expand into other countries this coming year in particular possibly Canada and Australia. Where are you hoping for us to ship?

Why not ship worldwide all at once?

Re: Launch HN: Nutrigene (YC W18) – Tailor-made liquid supplements using health data

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Post by vancanwin »

vancanwin wrote: post #10
caio1982 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I sort of guessed about it being US-only when I saw inches and lbs so perhaps in that same page should be okay :-) I hope I can try it someday!

We are looking to expand into other countries this coming year in particular possibly Canada and Australia. Where are you hoping for us to ship?

There are lots of regulatory limitations in making sure each supplement is allowed for consumption in each country (let alone each state). So we are making sure we have all the precautions met before doing something worldwide.

Re: Launch HN: Nutrigene (YC W18) – Tailor-made liquid supplements using health data

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Post by vancanwin »

jamesshamenski wrote: post #12

The game has been changed. Society will look back at the 'health isle' in a drugstore and wonder how anyone navigated through a sea of labels and white lies. The next step is to hook up with HealthKit and monitor my activity and use to inform what to send me next month.

That is the vision - using data to track changes in health rather human psychology.

Re: Launch HN: Nutrigene (YC W18) – Tailor-made liquid supplements using health data

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Post by vancanwin »

HorizonXP wrote: post #34

Hi Min, say hi to Greg for me! Check out LabDoor (YC W15), they might be able to help with a lot of testing and insights as you guys grow.

We are definitely checking you guys out. We've spoken to Neil to set something up soon. :)

Re: Launch HN: Nutrigene (YC W18) – Tailor-made liquid supplements using health data

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Post by vancanwin »

outsidetheparty wrote: post #16
vancanwin wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I truly understand the skepticism especially when starting this company. That's why we are putting standards and QA processes to make sure our vitamins are pure and not filled with 99% fillers as most vitamins do. We are targeting people who have taken a step towards reducing their refine sugar, carbs, and proper exercise. Our customers typically work out and eat healthy, but are finding that supplementation is worki…

> That's why we are putting standards and QA processes to make sure our vitamins are pure and not filled with 99% fillers as most vitamins do. That non sequitur of a response doesn't do much to allay the concerns you're responding to.

I just realize that after responding again (see above).

Re: Launch HN: Nutrigene (YC W18) – Tailor-made liquid supplements using health data

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Post by treis »

vancanwin wrote: post #24
qume wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting you suggest in this post that reducing carbs is a step towards a healthier diet. A whole food plant based diet is mostly carbs and is generally regarded as the healthiest diet available. The field of nutritional science is as valid as any and saying it ia becoming more validated science suggests to me you havent been exposed to the thousands of high quality studies being published every year. This is a hu…

I appreciate your skepticism as there should be more of it when addressing these type of health topics. I wish there was more of this type of healthy discussions in the place of healthcare. But back to the topic, my mistake for generalizing the statements above. For some who need to reduce or should I say "monitor" their carb intake, such as myself, I had to drastically reduce my carb intake due to diabetes. And suga…

(1) Your 10x claim is obvious bullshit. Where is your research showing a measurable health improvement that is 10x greater?

(2) Where is your peer reviewed research demonstrating that your system leads to measurable health improvements?

Your company, like virtually every supplement company, is a scam that plays on the fears and ignorance of its customers. You have an obvious conflict of interest in that you both recommend and sale vitamins. At minimum, to be an ethical health care provider, you should either be a manufacturer of vitamins or a service that recommends them.

Re: Launch HN: Nutrigene (YC W18) – Tailor-made liquid supplements using health data

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Post by lcalculus »

Please correct original post to link to https://www.mynutrigene.com as otherwise, you're redirecting folks to the non-https version which will probably put off at least a subset of this audience for security reasons ( actually , given the type of info you're collecting, all should use https).
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