Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by satellitecat 4700 days ago
I think having just 1 final formula will be a mistake. Different people have different needs. I remember reading somewhere on his site that women testers complained of hunger, for example. Activity levels and age may cause different needs as well.

It's a bit of this TED talk about having alternative recipes because there's rarely one ultimate recipe that everyone likes. Some people like smooth peanut butter, others like crunchy, etc. http://www.ted.com/talks/malcolm_gladwell_on_spaghetti_sauce...

1 comments

It worried me to read that most of the customers are men (young at that too, along with all the founders), since the other half of the population of Earth have differing nutritional needs. I'm kind of afraid that not enough testers are women or from different walks of life than your average hacker, too.

I used to be iron deficiency anemic for the longest time and general multivitamins didn't even come close to addressing the iron deficiency. It's no longer a problem but I still tend to buy products like vitamins only for women now as a result.