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Nope, it posts the answers to the survey to:

https://vp9eae2gvh.execute-api.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/test/...

which responds:

"Hello from Lambda"

At which point it shows me my "recommended" packages which are supposedly "tailored to my body". Picking one of those sends me to a payment screen.

This isn't shady or false advertising. This is an out and out scam.

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This is pretty mindblowing for a YC company, pretty damaging to their brand as well being associated with this type of snake-oil product.

Reminds me of the days when facebook peddled vitamins on their site when no one else was willing to do business with them. Not the best PR for YC or the company. I would imagine the thread gets nuked.

We definitely notice this feature is lacking in the customer flow. We have a dosage generator in our backend that our customer received but we will push that feature to be more transparent in our metabolic assessment.

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