[HN Gopher] Show HN: Parsnip - "Duolingo for Cooking"
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Show HN: Parsnip - "Duolingo for Cooking"
We're building Parsnip to create a "tech tree" of cooking skills
that allows anyone to level up on the building blocks of cooking
knowledge while tracking their progress over time. It took us a few
iterations to figure out the right product; here's the story of our
latest pivot: [https://parsnip.substack.com/p/a-new-hope] The goal
is to create a personalized way to learn any recipe on the
Internet, then use this as a springboard to help home cooks of all
levels solve the problem of repeated meal planning in a 10x better
way: [https://parsnip.substack.com/p/vision-part-one] We believe
that solving this problem at scale is good for people and for the
planet [https://parsnip.substack.com/p/why-we-started-parsnip] and
that now is the perfect time in history to do it:
[https://parsnip.substack.com/p/why-now]. Would love any
suggestions, feedback, or advice; and happy to answer any
questions!
Author : mizzao
Score : 42 points
Date : 2022-07-28 15:57 UTC (1 hours ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (www.parsnip.ai)
| greenie_beans wrote:
| this looks real cool. wish i could use it but i don't have a
| smartphone.
| erispoe wrote:
| You're talking about targeting a billion people. Who is that
| billion people? Is that the western world? Or people in the world
| with no cooking skills?
|
| Do you have an idea of the distribution of cooking skills in the
| world / western world? How many people need to develop basic
| skills?
| AnhTho_FR wrote:
| Love it! Shared it with my husband!
| [deleted]
| arcticfox wrote:
| Sick! I've really been wanting something like this as an extreme
| newcomer to cooking.
| mizzao wrote:
| Thanks! Our whole goal is to tackle the pain of "not knowing
| where to start" and building up the confidence and knowledge to
| go and try stuff in the kitchen.
|
| If building a new product means creating a painkiller and not a
| vitamin, then this is the pain that we identified among many,
| many beginner cooks: https://parsnip.substack.com/p/app-store-
| launch-stats
| 3adawi wrote:
| Awesome - downloaded it
| rekttrader wrote:
| Great idea and product name.
| jacobdpeters wrote:
| great name , great product , team looks killer too
| collegeburner wrote:
| ooh looks cool! are yall going to support stuff like dietary
| preferences? and is it ad supported or?
| mizzao wrote:
| Our main thesis is to teach the "hows" and "whys" behind
| recipes so that you can substitute and adjust as necessary for
| your own dietary preferences instead of having to find recipes
| that satisfy them.
|
| It's more of an edtech approach where we try to get the right
| knowledge into your brain in an empowering way rather than
| outsourcing decision making to an algorithm.
| guggleet wrote:
| From the privacy policy:
|
| > We may collect the following information from you in order to
| provide our Services:
|
| > ....
|
| > Your child's first name;
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| > Your child's age or birthday;
|
| Why?
| lynndotpy wrote:
| I believe because they're targeting users under 13. I also saw
| this and got very concerned, until I read the beginning but of
| the Privacy Policy.
|
| I'd love a clarification, say, that they don't somehow do this
| for adult users of the app.
| JLCarveth wrote:
| Makes it easier to sell your firstborn if they have that
| information already \s
| mizzao wrote:
| My co-founder handled the privacy policy so I've pinged him to
| provide a response. We'll get back to you as soon as possible!
|
| _EDIT_ : lynndotpy was right; it's required by law under COPPA
| if we have users under 13. It's the same reason that sites ask
| people for their age/birthday to check if they're under 13.
|
| We want kids to be able to learn to cook too!
| anosidium wrote:
| This looks incredible! I would love a macOS app as I spend more
| time on the Mac than on my iPhone.
|
| Well done for not enforcing account registration and letting me
| actually try the app.
| mizzao wrote:
| Thanks. Our goal is to make learning to cook as easy as
| possible, and that includes making onboarding as easy as
| possible :-)
|
| Re: MacOS app: is that the same toolchain as iOS, or totally
| different? Our iOS app is built in Swift and I'm not an iOS
| developer, so actually not super familiar with the ecosystem.
| anosidium wrote:
| Apple Silicon Mac computers can run iOS apps natively
| otherwise you have to do some work to port it to the Mac via
| SwiftUI which is multiplatform framework, or Catalyst with
| minimal efforts otherwise as an AppKit (Cocoa) app.
|
| What framework does it use?
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