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We found an app that lets you buy anything for $0

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Saying we've been doing it all wrong. This whole business thing. The building thing, we've been doing it all wrong. I feel like I could rule the world, I know I could be what I want to. I put my all in it like my day's all on the roadless travel, never looking at the case. You have to build a product. That product has to do something, has to add value, solve a problem.

And here I will read you this tweet. This is from Next to TV. They say dopamine websites are the new trend in South Korea. These services let users endlessly browse food delivery menus, read reviews, fill their shopping carts, and even track their shipment, but the only catch None of it's real. You're not really placing an order for anything. There are also virtual smoke breaks where you can join anonymous people in chat rooms to recreate the feeling of taking a smoke break without having to smoke a cigarette.

The idea is simple. Give people the familiar dopamine hit without them having to actually spend any money, leave the house, smoke, or do anything else along those habits. And these are becoming incredibly popular in South Korea, apparently. Is this the same country that's having a massive birth rate issue? Unrelated. It checks out if they're gonna create virtual smoke rooms and fake buy stuff. What the heck, guys. So the the trend started, you know, this year and it's basically Korean Gen Z. They sort of realized that. A lot of the fun in online shopping is just browsing. It's just putting things in the cart, hit and check out. You know, the getting the actual product is uh, you know, sure. That maybe that that adds some value, but there's a lot of fun in just the other side of it. And so you can see uh here, I I can pull one of them up.

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