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Re:Launch HN: Fella (YC W20) – Tackling men's obesity using ... by lkrubner on Saturday August 21, 2021 @09:21PM (#28262104)
I assume you've heard the advice that small startups should start in a niche and then expand towards the wider markets? Have you thought about initially focusing on Hacker News types, the types who read up on the technical documentation behind a drug?

You've probably heard the story about Head & Shoulders shampoo? This is taught in a lot of marketing classes. The year it launched there were other shampoos launching that also included selenium disulfide and piroctone olamine and therefore could have sold themselves as anti-dandruff shampoo, but the other shampoos instead went after the general market and they almost all failed. Head & Shoulders started with a niche and eventually became a giant:

"By 1982, it was the "number one brand" of shampoo, and it was noted that "No one hair care brand gets so many ad dollars as Head & Shoulders, a twenty year old brand, and no other brand matches its sales", despite it being a "medicated" shampoo."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_%26_Shoulders

Re:Launch HN: Fella (YC W20) – Tackling men's obesity using ... by rich-cartwright on Saturday August 21, 2021 @10:36PM (#28262398)
Hadn't heard about H&S.

Will give it more of a think about best early adopters.

Re:Launch HN: Fella (YC W20) – Tackling men's obesity using ... by halfmatthalfcat on Saturday August 21, 2021 @11:16PM (#28262574)
As someone who knows nothing about Semaglutide and is an HN type, I can tell you that anecdotally, marketing yourself as a breakthrough medicinal weight loss solution sounds very similar to packaging found on gas station counters.

Ephedrine was also a breakthrough weight loss treatment...until it wasn't...

Re:Launch HN: Fella (YC W20) – Tackling men's obesity using ... by rich-cartwright on Saturday August 21, 2021 @11:57PM (#28262732)
Helpful to know. Thank you.