A bit of (hopefully constructive) criticism:

> L. condoms are made with non-toxic, vegan-friendly natural latex

This sentence right here puts me off the whole thing (if I lived in an area where they are sold, of course), and it might be useful to share why.

The thing is: as a guy, I'm terrified of condoms already (of course, I still use them). They may break, they may slip off, they have to be applied following a certain, almost clinical procedure. And now you have "vegan-friendly" as a selling point. I have no idea why should a condom be vegan, and as a non-vegan myself all the contact I have with vegan things is through the vegan menu at my cafeteria.

But the vegan menu sucks. So does replacing regular milk with coconut milk to make cookies vegan (I've tried). If a "vegan-friendly condom" is to condoms what the vegan menu is to the regular menu, I am now certain that the chance of breaking will be higher, or that it will feel weird, and that the only reason the thing is around is because "that's the only vegan alternative we have" (pretty much like the vegan menu).

Maybe things are different enough in San Francisco to make a difference, and people protest loudly to have a vegan condom. Or maybe one of the founders is vegan. The rational part of my brain says that they are perfectly safe and probably indistinguishable from a regular condom. Unfortunately, I shop mostly with my irrational side.

I am trying to picture in my head how a romantic evening with this product might develop, and I don't see a way of it not being the most awkward experience for everybody involved.

— Sorry, I was not prepared for this date, we'll have to wait for one hour until the bike messenger arrives with our vegan condoms.

— A guy on a bike will bring condoms here???

— Yes, it is this brilliant new service where they send a condom to Africa every time we have sex.

I'm not entirely sure who the market for this product is. People who are desperate to have sex but aren't desperate enough to either walk to a convenience store or forgo protection?

I'm willing to bet that they diversify into other stuff pretty swiftly when their core product fails to get market... penetration.

This is such a non-product. Look at those publicity shots, everything about this company screams, look at me, we're a startup! The donations to Africa, in hour delivery, the model-level attractive female founder. This is a bad idea. It doesn't seem like it was tested at all.

Even if I'm wrong and they take off, condom delivery as a service isn't much of a service in itself. Anyone of the multiple alcohol delivery services would just add this as an item. How do people like this make it into Y-Combinator? Are the VCs trying to get laid? Or is this one of those uncomfortable risks that they keep talking about? Either way, I expect this to run out of runway soon or pivot to something completely different. The founder is a photo-journalist so I don't expect much.

I am very very very interested to know what the guys in YC saw in this!

We hear Paul and Sam saying that the hardest part of their job is saying No to great ideas that just weren't that great and then we come across this? Seriously?

I will be honest on this, but the vegan friendly part kind of annoys me, since as far as I know latex comes from trees so smells like marketing BS, also what is the advantage, honestly 1h seems way too long to wait I would rather go to the nearest store and buy them. Other issue I have and this is not with the product itself its the picture on the article looks way too obvious that they are posing, are they the founders or just models for the photo?

> vegan-friendly natural latex, potentially reducing allergies associated with condom use for those with a latex allergy

Wait how does the former imply the latter? If a person is allergic to some compound in latex and the condoms are made of latex that has not been processed to remove that compound, how would that prevent the allergy?

Are latex allergies actually allergies to a chemical commonly used to process latex sap?

And they say we're not in a tech bubble.

In what world is this a viable company? It's not, you can get condoms everywhere, and it'll be fsater than this, and cheaper.

But because it has an app, millions of dollars will be thrown at it to keep it afloat, but in the end it will sink and the money will be wasted.

What's next, an app for getting 2 slices in under an hour for when you want a sandwich?

So you have to wait for a buff bike messenger to arrive so as to remind your date that there are way hotter people out there.

I sincerely hope they've done their Dr. Whoopee research, e.g.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61RSODG4DbL._SY344_BO1...

https://www.worldcat.org/title/calling-dr-whoopee-a-doonesbu...

Know your elders!

The "buy 1 give 1" model of charity is problematic and other businesses like TOMS shoes have taken a lot of flack for it. It's often more about making the consumer feel good rather than actually doing good, e.g. http://www.fastcoexist.com/1679628/the-broken-buy-one-give-o...

If only Y Condomnator would fund a startup trying to get custom-sized ones approved in the US.

Here I thought I was going to read about a genius new type of condom or something different. There's local delivery service here that will bring you beer or cigarettes from the corner store already. They could just bring me some condoms if I was that lazy or unprepared and I can't imagine having to tell person your with to just wait an hour if that's the case.

Might as well apply for a startup to provide the morning after pill.

I don't understand why would anyone choose to have STD's testing performed while having sex... If they really invented an affordable STD testing kit, why not simply sell it as-is? I don't get it.

There is only one thing I care about: will they be producing condoms bigger than the FDA currently allows? Some guys have this problem. ahem

Great, now we have an "Uber for condoms".

>comfortable, paraben and glycerin free prophylactics

Are any latex condoms actually "comfortable"?

Going just by the title, is this an escort service?