[HN Gopher] Show HN: Parsnip - "Duolingo for Cooking" ___________________________________________________________________ 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) (HTM) web link (www.parsnip.ai) (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; | | > 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? ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-07-28 17:00 UTC)