[xarchive]

Most of us should be honest and admit we're jealous of this guy.

He basically chose a sector where customers are desperate (weight-loss drugs), slapped a website and an interface for connecting with a drug prescription provider together, did effective marketing, and now his business generates millions a month in profit.

Like, there are a half dozen companies like his running around that essentially offer the same product and prices because they are all customer interfaces stop the same provider.

[1attice]

Speak for yourself. My skin crawls.

Do not universalize your temptation to graft

[rdevilla]

Just the other day I was downvoted and called out for suggesting that perverse incentives are hard to resist, yet here we are with the Times (apparently) showcasing another such instance.

In this case GLP1's clinical effects are widely understood though, so it is immaterial if an "artist's depiction" (artificial agent's depiction) is of a real person or purely hallucinated.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47581021

[georgemcbay]

> In this case GLP1's clinical effects are widely understood though

When injected. One of the products this scam company was selling is oral Tirzepatide pills, which don't do anything.

[Arodex]

You got played by a scammer.

https://bsky.app/profile/masnick.com/post/3miwsjejfhk2i

"Turns out basically every aspect of that story is bullshit and the story should be retracted."

[zcw100]

This is just like when Paypal got started and was basically operating their own bank. Good luck doing that without getting in trouble. This is selling pharmaceutical drugs over the internet. You're playing chicken with going to jail they just happened to get lucky.