Fake food delivery site for the dopamine

https://old.reddit.com/r/BingeEatingDisorder/comments/1uzr3ui/fake_food_delivery_site_for_the_dopamine/

by guerrilla • 4 days ago

109 63 4 days ago

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What??

morkalork4• 4 days ago

Looks 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• 4 days ago

What fake online shopping site?

netsharc2• 4 days ago

I 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...

ungreased0675• 4 days ago

https://foodnevercome.com/

alemilos• 4 days ago

This actually made me hungry.

foobarian• 4 days ago

It's too fast. There should be an artificial pause while adding to cart or capturing the payment

DangitBobby• 4 days ago

Where 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?

beaker524• 4 days ago

This would actually add to the effect because the “hit” depends on the anticipation.

fourthark• 4 days ago

IMO you should also wait half an hour for the food not to be delivered. Isn’t that the suspenseful part?

ballenf• 4 days ago

I need to enter a coupon code for more dopamine. And a loyalty program.

actionfromafar• 4 days ago

Free spins?

mmooss3• 4 days ago

Seriously, the project's code name could be dopamine delivery. They could make it a demo of all the tricks.

eichin• 4 days ago

and "cookie clicker" is already taken :-)

NDlurker• 4 days ago

Practically no vegan options. Very realistic

zippyman552• 4 days ago

This is great. I need one for building permits.

airstrike• 4 days ago

OK, 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.

zippyman552• 4 days ago

I like to tip my delivery person so they do not spit in my food.

ChrisArchitect• 4 days ago

Post the source instead of random reddit: https://foodnevercome.com/

callumgare• 4 days ago

I 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.

netsharc2• 4 days ago

God 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• 4 days ago

Does 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• 4 days ago

Isn't it just like porn and video games work too. Weird no one thought of it before.

makifoxgirl• 4 days ago

I 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.

beaker524• 4 days ago

This is a key part of it - all the decision making, just like choosing the food, but making it yours.

thehamkercat• 4 days ago

wait what? shouldn't it make you more hungry/angry? when the food doesn't come...

bnfcl• 4 days ago

Humans, huh

layer8• 4 days 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.

tom_• 4 days ago

The 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

sidewndr46• 4 days ago

I'm seeing a business opportunity for a gambling site where it is extremely cheap to play, but the payout is always 0 dollars.

teraflop• 4 days ago

Well 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.

pengaru• 4 days ago

think window shopping

which upon writing I realized may not even be something folks born after 2010 have even heard of...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_shopping

charcircuit2• 4 days ago

Do you get anxious when you order at a restaurant? There is the same exact uncertainty there compared to ordering ahead by 10 minutes while you are on the way there.

harvey92• 4 days ago

There is a very different uncertainty with a far shorter loop to remedy any problems. I have never sat in a restaurant thinking that [any food delivery-specific failure mode] will arise.

beaker524• 4 days ago

There’s a thing with dopamine where it’s not actually about receiving the reward, it’s about doing the things that lead to the reward.

As weird as it sounds, going through the ordering process is all you need.

stasomatic• 3 days ago

It's an absolutely a thing. My closet full of retro consoles, cyber decks, old monitors proves it. Anyone need an Apple Studio (2000's aluminum) for free? I can't stomach throwing it out or selling it for $20.

tejohnso• 4 days ago

Counterproductive for me. Seeing all that tasty looking food makes me want to binge.

firefoxd• 4 days ago

The 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• 4 days ago

Doesn't quite meet the fantasy threshold. I can't seem to filter by allergens or dietary restrictions.

realo• 4 days ago

Next step:

Fully customized sex worker service at your doorstep ... faked for the dopamine, of course.

amelius• 4 days ago

This website works better than most sites I order from. Except for the delivery of course :)

beaker524• 4 days ago

No delivery and I’m still waiting for my refund - on par with the industry benchmark!

t0mpr1c3• 4 days ago

The 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• 4 days ago

I just had double jaw surgery so I'm "eating" though a straw (or syringe).

At least I can order regular food with this.

LadyCailin• 4 days ago

I almost ordered, but the delivery fee is way too high.

Fake food delivery site for the dopamine

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