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FakeHaul
Haul everything. Pay nothing. Nothing ships.
Most anti-shopping tools try to block the urge. FakeHaul feeds it instead. It's a full fake store with made-up products, lightning deals that reset at midnight, coupon stacking, "only 6 left" badges, checkout, tracking updates, even an unboxing for a package that doesn't exist. Every order totals $0.00. When you're done, you get a receipt showing how much money you kept. FoodNeverComes did this for takeout. Turns out the fun was never the stuff arriving.
Hey everyone, maker here.
This started as a joke about Temu. I wanted to parody the fake urgency, the "88K+ sold" badges, the countdown timers, all the machinery that makes you buy a vegetable chopper at 1am. So I built a store where the machinery is real and the products aren't. You can browse, stack coupons, check out, get tracking updates, and unbox a package that never existed. The total is $0.00 every time. At the end you get a receipt for the money you kept.
The part I didn't expect: a few early testers told me they open it when they feel like impulse buying, click around for ten minutes, and the urge passes. I have no idea if that generalizes. I'm not claiming it's therapy, and honestly I can see the argument that rehearsing the ritual could make the habit worse for some people. Curious what you all think it actually is.
No accounts, no ads, no money involved anywhere. It runs on spite and my hosting bill.
Two questions for you: what fake product should I add next, and did anyone actually feel the checkout dopamine even knowing it's fake? That second one is the whole experiment.
About FakeHaul on Product Hunt
“Haul everything. Pay nothing. Nothing ships.”
FakeHaul was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 12 upvotes and 13 comments, placing #159 on the daily leaderboard. Most anti-shopping tools try to block the urge. FakeHaul feeds it instead. It's a full fake store with made-up products, lightning deals that reset at midnight, coupon stacking, "only 6 left" badges, checkout, tracking updates, even an unboxing for a package that doesn't exist. Every order totals $0.00. When you're done, you get a receipt showing how much money you kept. FoodNeverComes did this for takeout. Turns out the fun was never the stuff arriving.
On the analytics side, FakeHaul competes within Funny, E-Commerce and Personal Finance — topics that collectively have 56k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how FakeHaul performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted FakeHaul?
FakeHaul was hunted by Jack Yang. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of FakeHaul including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
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