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/
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.
I see many people doing same on Show HN posts?
We've neural network which predicts maintenance calories to very high accuracy, this has never been done before at this level with thousands of users and so much success!
We have enough validation: thousands of users. The app is completely free and not even new; no ads or personal identifying information are collected.
What is not to like about this?
We are being flagged because GLP boosters on this site do not like that it is possible to lose weight with very little effort without GLPs.
I didn't say a single thing about your application. I do not care one way or the other. I'm just telling you people don't appreciate insistent self-promotion. You do what you want, but you cannot force people to like it.
toomuchtodo•45m ago
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.
faangguyindia•34m ago
>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.
Read the reviews. If 17,000+ users and all these reviews, guides, and posts on Reddit are not “enough creds,” then what is?
I have been a coach for over 10 years.
Creator of fitness guides shared across Reddit, like this one on a GLP-1 subreddit https://www.reddit.com/r/tirzepatidecompound/comments/1omfgx...
toomuchtodo•27m ago
faangguyindia•19m ago
The app is completely free, and there are no ads. 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/
We do not make any money from this.
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/
And we are not doing anything beyond current medical research. The research already existed and had existed for at least a few decades!
So, what is my grift?
I believe you are not very educated and are more likely to fall for the “appeal to authority” fallacy on this forum?