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Re: Show HN: Parsnip – Duolingo for Cooking

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Post by mizzao »

anosidium wrote: post #8

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.

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 but I'm not an iOS developer, so actually not super familiar with the ecosystem.

Re: Show HN: Parsnip – Duolingo for Cooking

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Post by mizzao »

guggleet wrote: post #7

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?

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!

Re: Show HN: Parsnip – Duolingo for Cooking

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Post by mizzao »

arcticfox wrote: post #5

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

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

Re: Show HN: Parsnip – Duolingo for Cooking

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Post by anosidium »

mizzao wrote: post #11
anosidium wrote: post #8

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.

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 but I'm not an iOS developer, so actually not super familiar with the ecosystem.

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?

Re: Show HN: Parsnip – Duolingo for Cooking

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Post by erispoe »

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?

Re: Show HN: Parsnip – Duolingo for Cooking

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Post by mizzao »

collegeburner wrote: post #15

ooh looks cool! are yall going to support stuff like dietary preferences? and is it ad supported or?

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.

Re: Show HN: Parsnip – Duolingo for Cooking

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Post by mizzao »

erispoe wrote: post #18

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?

There are many ways to get there but our initial thesis is to target beginners in English-speaking countries. Eventually we want to teach intermediate/advanced cooks and any cuisine to anyone regardless of where they lived.

These countries (USA, Canada, UK, Aus, NZ) have similar food cultures, a high reliance on processed foods (especially US), and relatively higher cost of labor and food vs. the rest of the world, so have a higher demand for learning to cook. The best way to see the trend and these countries is on Google Trends:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=how%20to...

Fun game: try putting something (or someone) popular on the right side of that graph and see if you can find a higher trendline

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