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Show HN: Parsnip – Duolingo for Cooking

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Re: Show HN: Parsnip – Duolingo for Cooking

#51

Your website has a massive horizontal scrollbar for me on Firefox latest on Windows 10. If you change the css of .slider.homepage to: .slider.homepage { bottom: 115px; overflow-x: hidden; } It will be fixed.

Thank you so much! In true HN fashion, you've not only identified an issue but provided a solution to it. We really appreciate it!

Re: Show HN: Parsnip – Duolingo for Cooking

#52
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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.

Great thanks! Just to correct my copy and paste typo, "Which part of an upright blender with hot liquid in is most dangerous?" :)

Re: Show HN: Parsnip – Duolingo for Cooking

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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”

That reminds me of this article, and a few others Kenji has written: https://www.seriouseats.com/behind-the-scenes-in-kenjis-home...

Re: Show HN: Parsnip – Duolingo for Cooking

#54
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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.

What did it force you to do that you didn't care about? I don't have any other language skills but it offered me ways to test out to higher levels and such. I figured that would get people with knowledge to a better spot.

Re: Show HN: Parsnip – Duolingo for Cooking

#55
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Took me way to long to unlock a recipe. But, the questions were good. Where is my skip to recipe button?

There are lots of ways to skip directly to a recipe all over the Internet. Tell me more, what are you trying to find?

Our recipes are actually pretty simple and not particularly special in any way. It's about the journey, not the destination ;-)

Re: Show HN: Parsnip – Duolingo for Cooking

#56

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!

After completing "Scrambled Eggs", I unlocked the recipe but after competing "Avocado Toast" the recipe was not unlocked and I'm not sure what to do to unlock it. What am I missing?

Re: Show HN: Parsnip – Duolingo for Cooking

#57
I don't get it. there are literally millions of people offering free cooking videos on youtube, and getting better at cooking isn't difficult at all - you just follow instructions (often in video) and try over and over again until you find something you like.

Is this sort of like a meal service without the delivery of ingredients?

Re: Show HN: Parsnip – Duolingo for Cooking

#59
This looks great! I will definitely be trying it out.

I haven't seen this asked or answered anywhere and am curious - how do you guys plan to make this profitable? Charging for more "advanced" features? Ads?

I already have the Duolingo owl chasing after me for money (and more time).

Re: Show HN: Parsnip – Duolingo for Cooking

#60
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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.

There are dozens of variants of this app, here's one built by a friend of mine: http://getrecipecart.com/ Like colpabar said, I think this is somewhat of a problem for experienced cooks but it's not the main issue faced by beginners, nor a big pain point. I believe this is true because I saw at least 20 startups build some version this in 2020-2021 and they mostly perished in the idea maze.

I am not a beginner myself but I would expect it would actually be a much larger pain point for a beginner. If they don't know where to start or what they need to do they may get overwhelmed by some 2000 word essay totally irrelevant to the process. Or get tripped up by extra advanced options listed in there. Just need the ingredients and the steps and maybe links to other instructions. Like if a step is "Dice the onions", link over to a page about dicing.
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