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Excited to see how the platform grows !

congrats to eugene and the blend team! have seen them come a long way :)

I'm a co-founder of Nootrobox. We're super excited to really invest into the rigor and quantitative metrics behind cognitive modulation. I'll be floating around answering any questions if you folks have them.

cool concept. interested in seeing the results.

Very low margin business. As a multiple of net revenue, it's at the high range of comparable payment processors.

interesting. we use coffeescript at nootrobox.com, but as you noted, it doesn't have a lot of hand rails. many a time, i've run javascript through a js2coffee translator to verify. will look into typescript.

Cool to see screenshots of price discrimination in practice

Keanu - Download the New You by Nootrobox https://nootrobox.com/keanu

Curious what compounds you've dabbled with.

Yes, I encourage you to do your own research. A lot of the chemicals have not been formally studied on a significant group of healthy adults. A lot of the models in studies are mice models or alzheimer patients, etc.

I'd say erowid leans more heavily towards recreational drugs which is out of the scope of what we wanted to talk about, but note taken. Definitely will shoutout erowid in any future discussions.

Lucy and Limitless were used as a writing hook - cheesiness noted, but they're relevant and accessible examples of how nootropics are entering the mainstream consciousness.

The broad stroke of your thinking is in line with ours -- it'll be inevitable. However, we do think it's important to start the dialogue and bring in policy makers as nootropics get more mainstream and as more exotic, unregulated/prescription drugs get roped into the scene. For example, sourcing unregulated research chemicals from labs in China or India zip-tied up in large, plastic baggies is sketchy. Bringing nootropics out of their current 'homebrew' status will really push the market forward.

You should try your caffeine with l-theanine if you don't like an over-stimulated, jittery effect. l-theanine is a pro-drug for GABA, crosses the blood-brain barrier, and is shown to ameliorate some of the edge off stimulants. Our indiegogo campaign for SPRINT makes it really easy to use: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/sprint-declaring-war-on-a...

Hard to cite sources if we don't link to it!

Check out our 2nd product line SPRINT if you want a really effective 'stay-awake' pill. We think it compares really well against alternatives like espresso, red bull, 5-hour energy especially for working.

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/sprint-declaring-war-on-a...

Sorry you feel that way. As TechCrunch / HN is a predominantly Silicon Valley centered community, we grounded the current work in nootropics with analogies and metaphors that make sense in the tech world today. I think this biohacking / nootropics ties into the broader context of the quantified self theme that many, many technologists are working on.

We're working with TechCrunch on a more in-depth series of posts, including one that will cover the classification and regulation around the three broad classes of compounds: 'supplements', 'prescription', and 'unregulated' research chemicals. We'll get into the world of noopept, piracetam, and DARPA-funded peptides etc. for you guys.

We care about safety first and effectiveness second. Here are some informational reads about the L-theanine + caffeine combo.

https://nootrobox.com/theanine

http://www.maneyonline.com/doi/abs/10.1179/147683010X1261146...

https://nootrobox.com/assets/2008-owen-b0b4e2568156b1c5a8574...

If you'd like to join us on our war against adderall, please support us at our Indiegogo campaign here: igg.me/at/sprint

We're around to answer any questions / concerns as well!

The supplements industry definitely needs to be reformed. We at Nootrobox hope to do it right. Nice link you shared. It's a special level of sketchiness when they photoshop articles, tweets, video appearances to boost their brand.

Google could cut Uber down hard by pulling Google Maps API access. Ballsiest play Google has ever done if they execute on this. Love it.

Big fan of Hiptic. Congrats on the GameThrive launch!

I love the term 'animal smell.' Having experience on both sides of the table as an entrepreneur and a VC, I can say that there's something to the notion of "smelling like a winner." It's hard to pinpoint, but the blog nicely highlights some of the signals for it.

An angle for this could be a Show HN / Product Hunt for trendy new mobile apps.

Thanks jmondo! Appreciate it!

1 is clever. I need #5. Sucks to be hungry and running out and about between meetings.

Curious to know the answer to this as well. I usually just use a template on Excel or Word.

We're launching it today!

Whoops. Thanks for the heads up!

Excited to launch Nootrobox (www.nootrobox.com) today! We have two goals: 1.) we want to make it drop-dead convenient to use nootropic stacks, and 2.) make nootropics more accessible and safer to a wider community of people.

We've been curious about nootropics for awhile and have experimented with different stacks, and it was a huge pain to buy everything in bulk and mix the right proportions of compounds together. The goal of Nootrobox is to abstract that pain away so it's as convenient to taking a vitamin.

Nootropics is somewhat of a mysterious and shady concept for most people, and we want to fix that. Many people take supplements for maximizing physical performance, and there's very little social stigma for that. But for cognitive supplements, the response is much more wary. We want to make mental supplements just as mainstream and commonplace because we ourselves have felt the effectiveness of nootropics.

So Nootrobox is going for convenience and accessibility. Our first stack “Rise” is actually based off a common mix of Bacopa monnieri, L-theanine, and caffeine.

We're providing a limited 15% discount to our first 500 orders and we're letting you guys know about this first here. We also have a referral program that gives $5 discount/credit for each person that buys through your referral link!

Just trying to replace your morning coffee. Keep eating those waffles and bacon!