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Fake food delivery site for the dopamine
- forgetfreeman 2mo agoWhat??
- morkalork 2mo agoLooks like a riff of the fake online shopping site. Kinda funny that the premise could be legit: All the novelty seeking and exploration behaviour and none of financial burden (or in this case, calories)
- tantalor 2mo agoWhat fake online shopping site?
- morkalork 2mo agohttps://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2026/07/16/these-dopamine-sites-deliver-thrill-shopping-without-cost/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2026/07/16/these-dop...
- netsharc 2mo agoI somehow want to make a brick and mortar shop with products with 5-digit price tags and the famous brands, but they're all fake, and visitors can pick and choose all the fancy products they want. They can then go to the cashier and go through a simulation of the purchase of all those products, but walk out with nothing... Or maybe even a receipt so you can look at it and pretend you just bought those things, hah. "The keys to the Lamborghini Aventador, and a Louis Vuitton bag. That'll be 350,000 dollars. How will you pay, ah with the made-up cheque? Certainly sir!". Charge $40 for half an hour of this sort of entertainment (or more for a virtual chequebook with a bigger account behind it), rake in the bucks...
- starkparker 2mo agoSo effectively a downtime session of D&D where everyone levels up and goes shopping for gear.
- em-bee 2mo agoshopping LARP
- em-bee 2mo agoNFTs instead of nothing? equally worthless, but you can pretend otherwise
- forgetfreeman 2mo agoWhaaaaat?? In a world where brick and mortar retail has been almost completely replaced by Amazon and a handful of mega big-box retailers there's a market for people going through literally all of the steps required to shop local retail (including spending money)....to end up having purchased nothing? Are y'all on drugs??
- morkalork 2mo agoWe used to call that window shopping and it was free. Now get off my lawn!
- mmooss 2mo agoThat would be a fantastic art installation. In some places, landlords allow empty storefronts to be used for art. You might get people to contribute satirical spins on different trends or designers. I hope you or someone does it.
- Stevvo 2mo agoGrowing up poor and seeing luxury stores, I thought that's how they work. i.e. they are just money laundering fronts. I could not fathom that someone would actually spend 20k on a handbag.
- ungreased0675 2mo agohttps://foodnevercome.com/ https://foodnevercome.com/
- alemilos 2mo agoThis actually made me hungry.
- foobarian 2mo agoIt's too fast. There should be an artificial pause while adding to cart or capturing the payment
- DangitBobby 2mo agoWhere are the promo pop ups and the CTA asking me if I want to buy a giant cookie, cheese sticks, or a 2 liter at 200% markup?
- beaker52 2mo agoThis would actually add to the effect because the “hit” depends on the anticipation.
- fourthark 2mo agoIMO you should also wait half an hour for the food not to be delivered. Isn’t that the suspenseful part?
- ballenf 2mo agoI need to enter a coupon code for more dopamine. And a loyalty program.
- actionfromafar 2mo agoFree spins?
- mmooss 2mo agoSeriously, the project's code name could be dopamine delivery. They could make it a demo of all the tricks.
- eichin 2mo agoand "cookie clicker" is already taken :-)
- NDlurker 2mo agoPractically no vegan options. Very realistic
- j45 2mo ago[flagged]
- j45 2mo agoThere is nothing wrong with being a vegan, but the default assumption that Veganism is great for all, especially in countries where allergies are rampant isn't always feasible. The drive by downvoting to suppress a broader perspective and impact of veganism is for everyone is one thing.
- DangitBobby 2mo agoIf it's lethal for you don't be one. We aren't really to the point where anyone should be legitimately concerned that veganism will be influencial enough to crowd you out of your preferred diet.
- j45 2mo agoEveryone can do what they want, until what they want is for it to be mainstream without considering it's for everyone.
- NDlurker 2mo agoThere are a lot of things that are mainstream but not for everyone. Meat, airplanes, chess, rock climbing, nicotine, football, etc
- DangitBobby 2mo agoI'm not sure how healthy veganism or vegetarianism are for your entire lifespan, but our diets could and should use much less meat, like 5% the currently consumed amount of meat or less. Such a diet would suitable to the vast majority of people and I'm not really sympathetic nor receptive to arguments centered on the small minority of people for which such a diet would be dangerous or intractible. As a vegetarian in a southern state I get to deal with a culture that thinks everything needs meat. Fucking bacon in milkshakes. It's a little ironic that I now also get to hear complaints that my tiny minority choice is somehow negatively impacting the carnivors.
- zippyman55 2mo agoThis is great. I need one for building permits.
- airstrike 2mo agoOK, this actually worked as advertised. I feel dopamined. I just wished the delivery took longer and there was a payment process that longer than an instant. Could have a saved card on file that you could use.
- zippyman55 2mo agoI like to tip my delivery person so they do not spit in my food.
- ChrisArchitect 2mo agoPost the source instead of random reddit: https://foodnevercome.com/ https://foodnevercome.com/
- callumgare 2mo agoI actually thought the Reddit context was quite helpful. I wouldn’t have guessed that this would be particularly meaningful for people with a binge eating disorder.
- netsharc 2mo agoGod damn, the AI-generated pics. Well, since it's a site for Artificial Food Ordering, why not use AI images. I wonder how Baudrillard would think about all this.
- mimischi 2mo agoDoes this have the ridiculous dark patterns that Deliveroo in the UK has? “Pay a monthly fee for free deliveries!* *We won’t tell you, but you might notice, we’ve now increased the service charge by almost the amount of what you saved on that free delivery.
- cynicalsecurity 2mo agoIsn't it just like porn and video games work too. Weird no one thought of it before.
- makifoxgirl 2mo agoI was really hoping to add some fries, a drink and to customize my burger. Not that I customize my burger except maybe take off the pickles or remove the ice from my drink, but it adds to the dopamine factor.
- beaker52 2mo agoThis is a key part of it - all the decision making, just like choosing the food, but making it yours.
- thehamkercat 2mo agowait what? shouldn't it make you more hungry/angry? when the food doesn't come...
- bnfcl 2mo agoHumans, huh
- layer8 2mo ago> It's just to replicate the ritual of ordering food and give you the dopamine that the real process gives you. I’m confused. How does the food-ordering process give you dopamine? It generally just gives me anxiety due to the uncertainties involved, until the food arrives in good condition, which here it won’t.
- teraflop 2mo agoWell the context is that it was posted to a subreddit for people who struggle with binge eating. So I guess you can think of it as the equivalent of sucking on a lollipop when you're craving a cigarette.
- tom_ 2mo agoThe link is to the BingeEatingDisorder subreddit. From the link, > I know that at least for me, the actual process of ordering food delivery is part of the addiction
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- sidewndr46 2mo agoI'm seeing a business opportunity for a gambling site where it is extremely cheap to play, but the payout is always 0 dollars.
- Bratmon 2mo agoYou've just invented the mobile games industry.
- sandcat_ 2mo agoHm, or even a gambling site that uses real money but where you always get your money back, eventually.
- DeltaCoast 2mo ago
- tejohnso 2mo agoCounterproductive for me. Seeing all that tasty looking food makes me want to binge.
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- firefoxd 2mo agoThe hardest part of food delivery is the tip section. It's where you use all your brain power to make a decision. That's the only part I would have given me dopamine hit from pretend tipping. Missed opportunity.
- pxx 2mo agoDoesn't quite meet the fantasy threshold. I can't seem to filter by allergens or dietary restrictions.
- realo 2mo agoNext step: Fully customized sex worker service at your doorstep ... faked for the dopamine, of course.
- amelius 2mo agoThis website works better than most sites I order from. Except for the delivery of course :)
- beaker52 2mo agoNo delivery and I’m still waiting for my refund - on par with the industry benchmark!
- t0mpr1c3 2mo agoThe curse of technology. If people still had to hunt their protein and grind corn by hand, we wouldn't need anti-binge-eating apps.
- BenjiWiebe 2mo agoI just had double jaw surgery so I'm "eating" though a straw (or syringe). At least I can order regular food with this.
- LadyCailin 2mo agoI almost ordered, but the delivery fee is way too high.