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Integrating AI chatbots into health tracking apps is an uncompelling gimmick
“I know that we've seen some apps that have experimented with integrating like AI chatbots and AI companions. I don't find that particularly compelling. You know, I think if you want to talk to AI about it, you've got a lot of options for doing that. It doesn't…”
Shotsy will maintain vendor independence from pharmacies and telehealth clinics
“My instinct from the beginning has been that there is a lot of value in us maintaining an independent position in the space, right? Like the word, you know, Shotzi is not tied to a particular medication, it's not tied to a particular clinic or pharmacy and it …”
Shotsy hit one million downloads and 100,000 active paid subscribers
“We've had we've had over a million downloads. And we have at this point, I think a 100,000 active paid subscribers.”
Keeping a day job improves early-stage startup decision-making and creativity
“Things got so much easier once I did take a day job and start bringing in some regular income instead of trying to constantly you know, force my, you know, fledgling businesses to try to support me financially. I think that's something that would have made it …”
Competing GLP-1 companion apps are pivoting to in-app drug marketplaces
“We've actually seen several of the several other apps in our space just recently start to add you know, kind of a marketplace for the drugs themselves within the app.”
Shotsy will track non-weight GLP-1 outcomes like reduced smoking and alcohol
“We are, Also wanting to move into more support for people who might be taking a GLP-I for non-weight-related outcomes. You know, maybe they are you know, trying to reduce alcohol usage or cigarette usage.”
Shotsy hired a former FDA informatics chief scientist as its CSO
“We were very fortunate to bring on a chief science officer last year who was a former chief scientist at the FDA for informatics and spent, Has spent a lot of his career focused on health data privacy and you know, issues around regulation with apps like this.”