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Food Never Comes
A fake food delivery app where the food never arrives
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A fake food delivery app where the food never arrives
8 followers
Food Never Comes is a dopamine site and fake food delivery simulator where you pretend to order food, track your delivery, and slowly realize that the food is never coming. It is a weird web app, browser toy, and pretend food ordering app made for people who enjoy useless but strangely satisfying internet experiences.
@edrington_brigges Its awesome..I saved some calories...It hits all the right dopamine triggers
The tracker is a delight. may be add a fake coupon search or fake customer chat.
Expand to more markets, APPLE products - I need the dopamine hit after ordering a Macbook m5 pro :)
@roopesh_donde Haha “saved some calories” is the perfect way to describe it.
Love the fake coupon search and fake customer chat ideas — both fit the joke really well. I’m adding them to the next iteration: coupons that discount nothing, and support agents who keep reassuring you that the food is “almost there.”
Also, fake Apple product delivery is dangerously tempting. A MacBook that never comes might deserve its own existential tracker.
is there a way to actually get the food to arrive or does it stay stuck in that "almost here" limbo the whole time
@caner396952 That’s the central mystery: it is always almost here, but never emotionally ready to arrive.
I’m working on making the “almost here” limbo even more ridiculous — so the app keeps giving you hope while absolutely refusing to deliver anything.
the slow reveal that the food is never coming is genuinely clever, especially how the tracking screen keeps updating with that same calm, reassuring animation. love how committed the whole thing is to the bit.
@asmin8rkg Thanks so much — that slow reveal was exactly the part I cared about most. I wanted the app to feel weirdly calm and convincing while the situation gets more and more absurd.
I’m going to lean even harder into the tracking screen now: more fake updates, more “almost here” energy, and probably a few increasingly questionable delivery statuses.
Played around with this for way too long, the slowly arriving fake tracking updates are oddly suspenseful. Definitely one of those dumb little websites that actually hits.
@akkusoglud13403 Thank you — “oddly suspenseful” is exactly the feeling I was hoping for.
I’m thinking of making the fake tracking updates even more dramatic over time, where it starts like a normal delivery app and slowly becomes more ridiculous the longer you wait.