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I'm curious--have you tried replacing some of your meals with Ensure? Edit: I'm not suggesting that Ensure and soylent are identical, but there is a lot of ove
by IvyMike 13y ago
I'm curious--have you tried replacing some of your meals with Ensure?
Edit: I'm not suggesting that Ensure and soylent are identical, but there is a lot of overlap, and in this case it appears to satisfy a lot of the requirements in the parent comment.
- at-fates-hands 13y agoThis. It's interesting to me when something like this comes along and people herald it as something completely ground breaking when there's already a myriad of products do this and probably taste infinitely better. Not saying its a bad idea, but this space is already incredibly crowded. what's the selling point that Soylent has over its competitors?
- pbreit 13y agoI would not call the space incredibly crowded. In fact, I'm not aware of anyone else promoting at the consumer level a 14-21/week meal replacement product.
- DanBC 13y agoBecause that approach is fantastically irresponsible and existing companies don't want the legal hassle.
- pbreit 13y agoI don't know that it's irresponsible, much less fantastically so. The legal angle is a good one and why upstarts can continue to outwit the incumbents (discount them at your peril).
- cbhl 13y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7557043 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7557043
- ballard 13y agoPlus getting distribution will be cutthroat savagery. Direct-to-consumer is a huge amount of work and limits growth. Costco, Whole Foods, Trader Joes and Amazon should be hit up at the same time.
- _greim_ 13y agoThe company is taking essentially an open-source approach, and is deliberately fostering an active DIY community. Ensure and other products don't operate that way, as far as I know. That's pretty compelling to a lot of people.
- hanley 13y agoI don't think they actually are that similar. Ensure doesn't even get you close to the recommended amount of macronutrients, unless you're trying to lose weight. Ensure has 210-350 calories [0], yet high levels of micronutrients which means if you drink too many of them you risk taking in way too much of some vitamins and minerals. Soylent is meant for healthy people who want to consume a normal amount of macro and micro nutrients each day. [0] http://ensure.com/nutrition-faq http://ensure.com/nutrition-faq