{"id":1022662,"date":"2026-07-22T07:56:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T02:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1022662"},"modified":"2026-07-22T08:02:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T02:32:58","slug":"why-people-are-ordering-fake-food-and-fashion-deliveries-on-free-dopamine-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/22\/why-people-are-ordering-fake-food-and-fashion-deliveries-on-free-dopamine-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"Why people are ordering fake food and fashion deliveries on free &#8216;dopamine apps&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Saturday night and you&#8217;ve downloaded a new food delivery app. You&#8217;ve scanned the menus, picked some Mexican dishes, placed your order and are now tracking the delivery. But your food never comes &#8211; and you never expected it to. <\/p>\n<p>It sounds ridiculous if you&#8217;ve never tried it, but this viral trend is more popular than you might think. Just one app alone, FoodNeverComes, claims nearly 1 million &#8220;cravings satisfied&#8221; to date. <\/p>\n<p>Why would people bother spending time on apps or websites that are built to never deliver? Ultimately, it&#8217;s all about getting a dopamine hit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Saturday night and you&#8217;ve downloaded a new food delivery app. You&#8217;ve scanned the menus, picked some Mexican dishes, placed your order and are now tracking the delivery. But your food never comes &#8211; and you never expected it to. It sounds ridiculous if you&#8217;ve never tried it, but this viral trend is more popular than you might think. Just one app alone, FoodNeverComes, claims nearly 1 million &#8220;cravings satisfied&#8221; to date. Why would people bother spending time on apps or websites that are built to never deliver? Ultimately, it&#8217;s all about getting a dopamine hit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1022662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1022681,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022662\/revisions\/1022681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}