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Ask HN: Why people do not want to believe weight loss is possible without GLPs?

1 points by faangguyindia ↗ HN
My last post got flagged when I claimed we provide guaranteed weight loss or gain results within 2–3 weeks without GLPs.

Why are so many people on Hacker News hellbent on boosting GLPs as a cure for all weight loss?

We've got 17,000+ users, all the reviews and testimony, and yet we are not able to post our app on Show HN?

We submitted our app to Show HN, but users are flagging it?

https://macrocodex.app/

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toomuchtodo
Because it’s a hormone imbalance glp-1s solve for around the brain’s demand and reward center. Would you tell someone with a mental health illness to not take their lithium?

Your app isn’t going to fix brain chemistry and a hormone imbalance. It’s snake oil. Are you a medical professional? Show the creds.

genezeta
> My last post got flagged where I claimed ...

From a different perspective, your last post, where you were promoting your own application, got flagged.

Yes, this is a fairly normal thing. In fact, if you had read the guidelines, you would have noticed that self-promotion is generally frowned upon in HN. It is not what the site is for.

Now, submitting again to protest that you were flagged and then just promoting the app a bit more, sounds like another thing that people will not like. So you'll probably get flagged again.

Henchman21
I think, generally, that people view your work as BS. And you’re right! There is no rule against promoting your BS.

But it doesn’t follow that people have to like it. You seem to want to debate efficacy with people who are telling you to simply stop & go away. No one is hearing about efficacy, all they hear is “this dude won’t quit it & refuses to acknowledge the hint”.

If you don’t understand this, I hope it is eye-opening!

If not? Well I guess I can quote the following:

You’re not wrong! You’re just an asshole Walter! — The Dude

faangguyindia
>I think, generally, that people view your work as BS. And you’re right! There is no rule against promoting your BS.

No evidence of this, last post had 28 upvotes.

Thread posted by some other guy on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/tirzepatidecompound/comments/1omfgx...

Many people like it! it has reviews, reddit comments voching for it, it's just some guys on HN who boost GLPs who are involved in flagging.

Plenty of reviews posted by established users on Reddit.

>You’re not wrong! You’re just an asshole Walter! — The Dude

An asshole is someone who claims to read the minds of others and uses this to further their own narration, and if you look in the mirror, perhaps you'll find the real one!

gus_massa
I did't flag it. Anyway, the whole area is full of scammers and fake promises, so I just ignore it all of them.

> I claimed we provide guaranteed weight loss or gain results within 2–3 weeks without GLPs

What is the guaranty? Do you give the money back? It makes the post even more suspicious. Try to avoid infomercial tone here or it will make people even more suspictious.

You also can claim whatever you like. Do you have any proof? Reviews and testimonials are not reliable. I assume in general that all of them are fake, in spite your may be real or not.

> Why are so many people on Hacker News hellbent on boosting GLPs as a cure for all weight loss?

There is a lot of evidence that GLP work published in well known sources. See https://www.who.int/news/item/01-12-2025-who-issues-global-g... Where is yours?

(In the last month or so, there are a lot of new reports where GLP also cure other diseases. I'm very suspicious about them.)

Also, I'm not sure what is the difference with other apps. What does it do? It's like a calorie counter but it interpolates the calories when the user forgets to enter them?

faangguyindia
>What is the guaranty? Do you give the money back? It makes the post even more suspicious. Try to avoid infomercial tone here or it will make people even more suspictious.

The app is completely free, and there are no ads.

So the most you stand to lose is 2-3 weeks spent using the app!

I’m not even promoting myself or my coaching company. If you read privacy policy you can see we do not collect any sensitive info either like name, email, phone number of DOB etc... https://macrocodex.app/privacy-policy/

>You also can claim whatever you like. Do you have any proof? Reviews and testimonials are not reliable. I assume in general that all of them are fake, in spite your may be real or not.

The work is even shared on Reddit by others on GLP-1 subreddits: https://www.reddit.com/r/tirzepatidecompound/comments/1omfgx...

>Also, I'm not sure what is the difference with other apps. What does it do? It's like a calorie counter but it interpolates the calories when the user forgets to enter them?

It uses a neural network for weight loss and weight gain with very high effectiveness; it’s nearly impossible to fail!

All the methods we use are documented here in detail, with links to relevant research; we even provide citations:

https://macrocodex.app/knowledge/rethink/adaptive-tdee/

https://macrocodex.app/knowledge/macrocodex/smart-calorie-bu...

https://macrocodex.app/guides/weight-loss/

faangguyindia
>You also can claim whatever you like. Do you have any proof? Reviews and testimonials are not reliable. I assume in general that all of them are fake, in spite your may be real or not.

I forgot to mention, we've a group with 2000+ members on Telegram: https://macrocodex.app/community/