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!

Show HN: Parsnip – Duolingo for Cooking
parsnip.ai

Great idea and product name.

Sick! I've really been wanting something like this as an extreme newcomer to cooking.

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?

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.