Comment · Tue, April 21, 2026 · ND Owner
UK supplement manufacturer actually runs his capsule and tablet machines with and without fillers and added ingredients, thought this is cool and informative
What they were answering
KodiakDog · 4 points
I think you’d connect with a lot more (potential) clients if yall did some “in the lab” videos too.
Look, I love your company, been a customer for like 10ish years - Back when yall still sold the the compounds that started this whole movement - and I ain’t going anywhere. But im gonna give it to you straight; the podcasts aren’t engaging. Yall are scientists, go do science shit. Show us the process, critique the industry while showing how it should be done, test other products. Shit, yall could document a single products journey, from origin to distribution; the sourcing, testing, the actual raw material yall get to make the product, turning it into an extract, beta testing, the philosophy, the workflow. Like really show us. People eat that shit up.
It’s a lot easier to relate to someone when you see them doing what they’re passionate about. People that like carpentry don’t want to listen to some cats that they know are good carpenters just talk about carpentry, people want to see the carpenter in they’re shop or jobsite, choppin shit up and puttin it together.
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · ND Owner
Yall are scientists, go do science shit.
That's the thing, we ARE doing science shit. It's all we do day in and day out. If you speak to anyone on my team, we are doing too much science shit. It's an endless stream of science projects, and the word you would most often hear from the people doing it would be: "overloaded." Doing science shit isn't our problem, it's filming and showing everyone else the science shit. You are right, we would get a lot of benefit out of doing that properly. The issue is that we are a real high activity working lab. The science and the data is the end goal, not the content. Our competition wins because the marketing content is the primary goal of everything they do. For us it's an afterthought to the science. Setting up shoots in the lab and disturbing the flow of my science team takes a back burner to letting them do their jobs and get me the data I need to make decisions. They are already overloaded as it is just with the science stuff. That's my problem to solve, but it is the main problem. There are not enough hours in the day to get to all the science stuff, before we even start thinking about producing content around it. Hell, we have a new Waters Xevo TQ-S Micro that we just installed in the lab, and I have not even shown anyone here pictures of it yet. However, I am already on to another half a million dollar piece of equipment we are getting in now that is going to completely change the way the industry measures beta-glucans and polysaccharides. It's called a triple detector High-Performance Size-Exclusion Chromatography coupled with Multi-Angle Light Scattering (HPSEC-MALS). It's literally going to upend that side of the industry once we get it fully integrated. I am trying to find not only space in the lab to put it & electrical circuits to handle it, but also a qualified scientist to run it.
My main problem is multifold. One, I have build an insanely complex scientific operation that takes a lot of time and effort to run. We never get a chance to come up for air between projects, because we have an endless stream of science shit going on. Filming content around that science takes time, and I already feel bad putting so much science onto my team that I don't want to burden them more with setting up filming in their working space. Two, I personally am too busy to even think. Again, that's my problem to solve. However, you can probably see my Reddit history has shifted to a very different place than in the past. I will not even come on here for weeks at a time now. I am just too busy dealing with other shit. Some days I am literally in meetings for 9 hours a day nonstop without breaks, back-to-back-to-back. It's something I have to get a handle on, to be honest.
Interestingly enough, I started writing this comment last Thursday, then got pulled into a ton of other shit. I just realized I hadn't clicked save, and now I am back here. LOL