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Launch HN: Legacy (YC S19) – we help men test and freeze their sperm

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Re: Launch HN: Legacy (YC S19) – we help men test and freeze their sperm

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Post by gcheong »

davelasto wrote: post #22
s17n wrote: post #19

To me the name "legacy" is a huge turnoff, big enough that I probably won't use your service. Maybe it's just me though!

I'd love to learn more! Is there something in particular you don't like? As a marketer (and the growth person on the Legacy team), I've learned you can't build a strategy or business that appeases everyone. Ultimately, a name is just a name. Ultimately, we are working to help hopeful fathers build families.

The idea that your legacy is primarily defined by one's offspring seems to just buy into current social stereotypes and doesn't really signify what the service is about as you described it. Other than that I think there might be some confusion with the "other" legacy (https://www.legacy.com also a YC company?) whose service is aimed at those on the other end of the life spectrum.

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Post by jedberg »

khaledkteily wrote: post #68
jedberg wrote: post #64

When we did IVF, I had two choices for providing my sample. Collect it at home and then drive it to the clinic, where I had a max of 15 minutes and had to keep the cup between my legs for the entire trip, or provide the sample at the clinic. How do you keep the sample fresh for transport if it's collected at home? ps. In case anyone was wondering I went with collecting at the clinic, and boy do I have some fun storie…

Haha! You and me both! The worst part, to me, was it being referred to as "the specimen". I don't know why that always weirded me out. Sperm can actually survive fine for 1-2 hours hours when kept near body temperature, so a 1-hour courier service is sufficient (and it usually takes less than 60 minutes). If there were any issues, we'd know when it arrived at the clinic. For anyone outside of major cities, we do over…

Thanks for the info. I guess that means I could have done it at home! Oh well.

I wrote up my story in the sibling comment since someone asked: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23851310

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Post by gremlinsinc »

Having been through 8 rounds of IVF I think about fertility issues a lot and lately I've been wondering, have there been any studies about covid and it's relation to sperm count?

I'm curious because testes have ACE receptor sites, so it's fathomable that it could cause wide-spread sterilization, or at least lower sperm counts.

Re: Launch HN: Legacy (YC S19) – we help men test and freeze their sperm

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Post by 1f60c »

jedberg wrote: post #70
JesseAldridge wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> boy do I have some fun stories from that experience Not gonna lie, I'm kind of dying to hear them.

Alright. So I go to the clinic and check in with my wife. They take her off to get ready to "receive the sample". A few minutes later they call me up to the desk. The nurse looks at me, pulls something out of the desk, hands it to me with a cup, at tells me to go to room two. To clarify, since it's relevant, I'm a white guy, my wife is Asian, and the nurse that checked me in is Black. What she handed me was a porn DV…

> Attach to the wifi and... all the porn sites are blocked.

This cracked me up.

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Post by js2 »

jedberg wrote: post #70
JesseAldridge wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> boy do I have some fun stories from that experience Not gonna lie, I'm kind of dying to hear them.

Alright. So I go to the clinic and check in with my wife. They take her off to get ready to "receive the sample". A few minutes later they call me up to the desk. The nurse looks at me, pulls something out of the desk, hands it to me with a cup, at tells me to go to room two. To clarify, since it's relevant, I'm a white guy, my wife is Asian, and the nurse that checked me in is Black. What she handed me was a porn DV…

So after having a vasectomy, you also provide a sample to ensure the tubes are really tied. There's a few stories one can tell about vasectomy prep, procedure, and recovery, none of which I'll share here. Anyone who's had the procedure probably has the same stories.

Anyway, generating that sample was something I did at home, but it was still an odd experience driving it to the doctor's office, ringing the bell for the receptionist, and handing over the sample (inside approved collection container which was inside a brown lunch bag as I recall).

Weird for me, but if your a medical office receptionist, you're used to receiving all sorts of samples.

Re: Launch HN: Legacy (YC S19) – we help men test and freeze their sperm

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Post by jedberg »

js2 wrote: post #75
jedberg wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Alright. So I go to the clinic and check in with my wife. They take her off to get ready to "receive the sample". A few minutes later they call me up to the desk. The nurse looks at me, pulls something out of the desk, hands it to me with a cup, at tells me to go to room two. To clarify, since it's relevant, I'm a white guy, my wife is Asian, and the nurse that checked me in is Black. What she handed me was a porn DV…

So after having a vasectomy, you also provide a sample to ensure the tubes are really tied. There's a few stories one can tell about vasectomy prep, procedure, and recovery, none of which I'll share here. Anyone who's had the procedure probably has the same stories. Anyway, generating that sample was something I did at home, but it was still an odd experience driving it to the doctor's office, ringing the bell for th…

Yes, the brown lunch bag! Because no one knows what's in the brown lunch bag that you are carrying into the fertility clinic...

Re: Launch HN: Legacy (YC S19) – we help men test and freeze their sperm

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Post by noir_lord »

khaledkteily wrote: post #62
caiobegotti wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> So you would work directly with them and have the choice of either keeping the sample frozen there, or transferring it to a facility of your choice That reads pretty much as "good luck with that!" to me, I'm sorry. People would pay you exactly because they would never have a facility of their choice and in case it goes sour they would probably have to face a ridiculous price tag from some other new company not trul…

Hey - I hear you, but I don't think that's entirely fair. We are obviously building a company that we believe will go far, and will be around for decades, but we recognize there's no guarantee that will happen. In a worst case scenario, folks could keep their sample frozen where it is and pay retail rates at those facilities instead of the wholesale rates we offer. We are real people who care a lot about the people w…

It wasn't fair in the slightest, having a plan in place for your company going under is more than many have and shows foresight.

Not having kids but good look with your business :).

Re: Launch HN: Legacy (YC S19) – we help men test and freeze their sperm

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Post by noir_lord »

jedberg wrote: post #70
JesseAldridge wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> boy do I have some fun stories from that experience Not gonna lie, I'm kind of dying to hear them.

Alright. So I go to the clinic and check in with my wife. They take her off to get ready to "receive the sample". A few minutes later they call me up to the desk. The nurse looks at me, pulls something out of the desk, hands it to me with a cup, at tells me to go to room two. To clarify, since it's relevant, I'm a white guy, my wife is Asian, and the nurse that checked me in is Black. What she handed me was a porn DV…

> I then went and sat in the waiting room while the doctor impregnated my wife.

Beautiful phrasing.

Re: Launch HN: Legacy (YC S19) – we help men test and freeze their sperm

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Post by khaledkteily »

gremlinsinc wrote: post #73

Having been through 8 rounds of IVF I think about fertility issues a lot and lately I've been wondering, have there been any studies about covid and it's relation to sperm count? I'm curious because testes have ACE receptor sites, so it's fathomable that it could cause wide-spread sterilization, or at least lower sperm counts.

Yep! We wrote a post about it a while back (https://www.givelegacy.com/resources/will-covid-19-affect-ma...). I was proud that we have developed enough domain authority to be the #1 Google result for a couple of months for 'COVID19 and male fertility'.

In brief:

1. Theoretically, yes. The testes have the second-highest number of ACE2 receptors, after the lungs. This could explain why men are more likely to get COVID-19 than men.

2. In the short-term COVID-19 is likely to decrease sperm quality, similar to the flu. this we can say with reasonable confidence, but it's nothing particularly scary.

3. We don't know if there are longer-term effects. We've already heard about potential scarring in the lungs, for example. What is the same was true in the testes? After all, some viruses like Zika CAN have longer-term effects.

The fact is, there has been no conclusive research yet, so we are running a study ourselves to try to identify some preliminary evidence.

Re: Launch HN: Legacy (YC S19) – we help men test and freeze their sperm

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Post by jedberg »

noir_lord wrote: post #78
jedberg wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Alright. So I go to the clinic and check in with my wife. They take her off to get ready to "receive the sample". A few minutes later they call me up to the desk. The nurse looks at me, pulls something out of the desk, hands it to me with a cup, at tells me to go to room two. To clarify, since it's relevant, I'm a white guy, my wife is Asian, and the nurse that checked me in is Black. What she handed me was a porn DV…

> I then went and sat in the waiting room while the doctor impregnated my wife. Beautiful phrasing.

Thanks. :)

Amusing side note, the doctor was a woman and devout Christian, who believed that she was simply a conduit for God's work, and if you got pregnant it was because God guided her hands well.

Also interesting was that she had the highest success rate of all the doctors in the clinic.

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