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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!
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).
In my opinion the ad-based business model is mostly dead. We'll have to find a new one. We're building in the open at https://parsnip.substack.com/ and you can subscribe if you'd like to follow along with how we figure out the business model!
The thing that makes Duolingo great is that right away you learn words in a new language. It hooks you. Within 1 lesson you know several words or a phrase with a few variations.
This is more just random trivia about food that no one cares about. I started with the cheeseburger recipe (apparently an advanced lesson or something). Right away it's asking me a bunch of questions about ground meat but teaching me nothing. Where's the hook? I want to see a recipe and learn to make it, not feel like I'm taking a test about a bunch of stuff I was never taught with no obvious path to simply making the thing I want to make. In the 5 minutes I spent on it I feel like I was just getting grilled (metaphorically). The first 5 minutes of Duolingo I actually learned something.
Anyhow, suggestion would be to start right away with the thing people actually want... How to cook the food and make the recipe.
Very US centric so I won't use it for now, but it's a good start!
Was this developed in house or was a good portion of it outsourced?
Here's a story about them that will knock your socks off: https://parsnip.substack.com/p/engineering-plot-twist
And, here's another one: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/mizzao_my-hands-are-trembling...
If you need work like this, hire them. They will blow your mind.
I've done a few quizzes on the app now, and I don't get it. The questions feel very contrived, like someone had a quota to fill so just put whatever looked plausible together. They are also _very_ culturally specific. Questions about eggs barely made sense to me being from the UK, with incorrect pack sizes, animal welfare terms, and completely missed our great standards body that makes it easy to know which eggs have…
To perhaps be a bit more constructive, and to suggest a way forward... I'd like to see a cooking teaching app that allows users to work through a recipe in varying levels of detail. For example, consider a Lasagna. A lower level recipe may use ricotta for a quick and easy version, a higher level might explain step by step how to make a bechamel, and the "hardest" level may just say "make a bechamel". As a user, being…
The 2 of them are true OGs of food media education on the internet.
this looks cool but the data collected label in google play claims that it collects emails (under the messages heading). i believe it's probably meant to indicate that email addresses are collected, but the way it's presented it sounds like it collects actual email content. (these new labels are self-reported, right?)
We definitely don't collect any e-mail content, nor do we request access to your e-mail!
find "Messages -> Emails" here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/datasafety?id=com.tapforc...
and as per the google play documentation:
--snip--
Messages Emails
Your emails, including the email subject line, sender, recipients, and the content of the email.
--snip--
I wish you good luck but I don't get it either. The thing that makes Duolingo great is that right away you learn words in a new language. It hooks you. Within 1 lesson you know several words or a phrase with a few variations. This is more just random trivia about food that no one cares about. I started with the cheeseburger recipe (apparently an advanced lesson or something). Right away it's asking me a bunch of ques…
I explain how this works at https://parsnip.substack.com/p/a-new-hope
The unintuitive observation for beginners is that their pain doesn't seem to be cooking the food and making the recipe. It's "I don't know where to start", and building up confidence, and not being intimidated by that literal fire on your stove.
I've done a few quizzes on the app now, and I don't get it. The questions feel very contrived, like someone had a quota to fill so just put whatever looked plausible together. They are also _very_ culturally specific. Questions about eggs barely made sense to me being from the UK, with incorrect pack sizes, animal welfare terms, and completely missed our great standards body that makes it easy to know which eggs have…
> I've done a few quizzes on the app now, and I don't get it. The questions feel very contrived, like someone had a quota to fill so just put whatever looked plausible together. The picture of quizzes on their blog post was odd too. The idea of washing ground beef to make a hamburger is very weird. Sounds like the result of an algorithm that decided that washing {ingredient} was always the first step in any recipe.
Please, please, please, avoid status cuisines . It's going to be hard to do, because they make good PR. But you will be helping your users a lot more of you hold them off with a ten foot pole. What do I mean by a status cuisine ? They are meals that are intended to show that the cook is a worthy person, rather than that the meal is practical, healthy, and good to eat. Here are some examples: The endurance cuisine: de…
Knowing how to make homemade cheese and applying that skill economically when it'll make a significant difference in the final product is useful... that ends up going with a home made puttanesca sauce instead of some canned pasta sauce... but those two end up covering some store bought noodles because I have priorities about my time.
Much like a lot of we programming folks learned the basics in university (assembly programming, building basic data structures in C++) comprehending the basics can let you make a judgement call on when it's appropriate to put in the extra effort. Someone who has never cooked a load of break may find that task daunting and insurmountable... but someone who regularly cooks fresh rolls for their daily grain and just keeps a weeks worth of dough in a tin in the fridge can whip up fresh rolls for dinner in a matter of minutes.