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Re: Show HN: Parsnip – Duolingo for Cooking

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Post by mizzao »

sakerbos wrote: post #38
sakerbos wrote: post #25

I love this! Already completed the "Scrambled Eggs" series. I really enjoy cooking and this is a fun way to enhance my skills, thank you!

One thing that I'd like to suggest is to make the questions a bit less ambigious / more straight forward. E.g. One of the questions is "Which part of an upright blender is the most dangerous?". My initial reaction was the blades but apparently the answer was steam. In this case, I'd suggest rephrasing the question to "Which part of an upright blender is the most dangerous with hot liquid in is most dangerous".

Thanks, I've re-posted this in our feedback channel on Slack.

Re: Show HN: Parsnip – Duolingo for Cooking

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Post by im3w1l »

I found duolingo extremely frustrating when I tried to practice a language I already had some knowledge in. It forced me to do a bunch of stuff I didn't care about. As most people will have some knowledge of cooking I think applying this concept to cooking is a bad idea.

Re: Show HN: Parsnip – Duolingo for Cooking

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Post by mizzao »

lampe3 wrote: post #40

How will this make money?

Ooh, that's a great question. We're building in the open and writing about it at https://parsnip.substack.com/ so if you subscribe, you'll see the answer in a future issue!

Otherwise, if you're a seed investor I can pitch you? :-D

Re: Show HN: Parsnip – Duolingo for Cooking

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Post by colpabar »

mattknightlewis wrote: post #27

What I really need is a browser extension that recognizes I'm on a recipe website and automatically scrolls past the recipe writer's whole autobiography to the section with the ingredients and instructions.

people make comments like this often and it makes me wonder if you actually really need it, because you can very easily find several extensions that do just that. As an experiment, I copied your comment into google verbatim, and found exactly what you are looking for.

Re: Show HN: Parsnip – Duolingo for Cooking

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Post by mizzao »

pj_mukh wrote: post #29

This is awesome. Would love to buy food-type packs from an app like this! Like, “Teach me the basics of Salads”, or “Advanced stir fry recipes”.

Thanks for sharing about willingness to pay — the bete noire of consumer apps :)

One of our eventual goals is to transition to a creator-driven system where anyone can teach others about how to cook, and monetize that too. There is so much food knowledge hiding all over the world waiting to be shared.

Re: Show HN: Parsnip – Duolingo for Cooking

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Post by mizzao »

KennyBlanken wrote: post #45

What's with the numerous throwaway astro-turf-y comments from low-activity accounts?

I honestly don't know. It's just me from the team that uses HN.

Truthfully, one of them is an angel investor who saw us of his own accord and decided to say hi. But maybe the others just really like the app?

Re: Show HN: Parsnip – Duolingo for Cooking

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Post by mizzao »

Shared404 wrote: post #30
mizzao wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Similar request - would love this but am not bought into Google Play or Apple. Is there any chance of a web version at some point?

Yep, here's an extremely early preview (don't tell anyone):

https://question-page-test.web.app/question/0CRyWWs1MBLonFho...

Re: Show HN: Parsnip – Duolingo for Cooking

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Post by pj_mukh »

mizzao wrote: post #46
pj_mukh wrote: post #29

This is awesome. Would love to buy food-type packs from an app like this! Like, “Teach me the basics of Salads”, or “Advanced stir fry recipes”.

Thanks for sharing about willingness to pay — the bete noire of consumer apps :) One of our eventual goals is to transition to a creator-driven system where anyone can teach others about how to cook, and monetize that too. There is so much food knowledge hiding all over the world waiting to be shared.

Yea that could work. I was thinking like, “This is how Kenji Lopez breaks down his salad recipes so he can get creative with what’s in his pantry”
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