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With Pashi, you get to choose the macronutrient ratio, which is not something restaurants expose or that frozen variants allow to customize.

Finnucane 7y ago
But my local place will also offer naan and samosas.
- 0x8BADF00D 7y ago
  Dunno where you live, but my local places also offer complimentary food poisoning with every meal.
  - brenschluss 7y ago
    Casual racism amirite?
    - deleted 7y ago
      [deleted]
    - 0x8BADF00D 7y ago
      Yeah, I need a skinny little white boy to tell me what’s racist. Get over yourself please.
      - dang 7y ago
        Yikes, please don't do that here, regardless of how provocative another comment was. We ban accounts for personal attacks. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
        0x8BADF00D 7y ago
        I do apologize dang. I let my emotions get the better of me and hijack my reasoning abilities.
    - dang 7y ago
      Please don't break the site guidelines by replying to an egregious comment, a.k.a. feeding trolls. It only makes the thread even worse. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
  - markbnj 7y ago
    I've been eating Indian food as often as I could get it for over 20 years. I've enjoyed it in Tel Aviv, London, NYC (Murray Hill, if you like Indian food and live in the area you know what I'm talking about). I eat regularly at a little family run place near us in North Jersey that is excellent. I've never once gotten food poisoning, or even felt like the conditions in the restaurants warranted being worried about it. If your local places are commonly serving contaminated food the problem might be your locale, and not the cuisine.
yumraj 7y ago
Ok. If that is enough of a value prop, are we going to see startups offering KungPao as a service, Udon as a Service, Sushi as a service and so on - it doesn't compute. I really wish you success, since I'm sure/hoping you have other things on your roadmap, but am not convinced this is a sustainable business model at the moment.
- ApolloFortyNine 7y ago
  Especially at $12 a serving... I find it really hard to believe you can't find a restaurant serving fresh Saag in San Francisco for that price. It is a very nice website though.
  - jakear 7y ago
    I live in SF, and I ordered a sample of this product. I could (and have) found Saag nearby for a similar price point, but when you take it as a meal the benefits become more clear, as you don't pay tip and drinks are a lot cheaper.
- gnicholas 7y ago
  Oh, you haven't heard of Ramen Hero? [1] This is apparently a thing. At least ramen is a complete meal though. I eat lots of spinach (6 days a week) and like Indian food, but I would not consider this service because it is much too expensive for a side dish, and one that is widely available fresh and frozen (and in IMO is not made that much worse by freezing). 1: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1091208024/ramen-hero-the-ramen-meal-kit-delivered-to-your-do https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1091208024/ramen-hero-t...
big_chungus 7y ago
I'm not sure of exactly why ordering the same dish with three different balances of nutrients is appealing. People usually eat different foods and get nutrients that way. I'm pretty sure forcing people to eat the same thing every day was ruled some form of cruelyy [0]. This seems very niche and very gimmicky. You're offering exactly one thing with very little variety; even those who say they could eat this every day will eventually get sick of it. I hope you add products; that is how you will grow. [0]: https://gizmodo.com/lobsters-were-once-only-fed-to-poor-people-and-prisoner-1612356919 https://gizmodo.com/lobsters-were-once-only-fed-to-poor-peop...
- kkarakk 7y ago
  it's a similar value prop to soylent, which has a hardcore base

Finnucane 7y ago

But my local place will also offer naan and samosas.

0x8BADF00D 7y ago
Dunno where you live, but my local places also offer complimentary food poisoning with every meal.
- brenschluss 7y ago
  Casual racism amirite?
  - deleted 7y ago
    [deleted]
  - 0x8BADF00D 7y ago
    Yeah, I need a skinny little white boy to tell me what’s racist. Get over yourself please.
    - dang 7y ago
      Yikes, please don't do that here, regardless of how provocative another comment was. We ban accounts for personal attacks. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
      - 0x8BADF00D 7y ago
        I do apologize dang. I let my emotions get the better of me and hijack my reasoning abilities.
  - dang 7y ago
    Please don't break the site guidelines by replying to an egregious comment, a.k.a. feeding trolls. It only makes the thread even worse. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- markbnj 7y ago
  I've been eating Indian food as often as I could get it for over 20 years. I've enjoyed it in Tel Aviv, London, NYC (Murray Hill, if you like Indian food and live in the area you know what I'm talking about). I eat regularly at a little family run place near us in North Jersey that is excellent. I've never once gotten food poisoning, or even felt like the conditions in the restaurants warranted being worried about it. If your local places are commonly serving contaminated food the problem might be your locale, and not the cuisine.

yumraj 7y ago

Ok. If that is enough of a value prop, are we going to see startups offering KungPao as a service, Udon as a Service, Sushi as a service and so on - it doesn't compute. I really wish you success, since I'm sure/hoping you have other things on your roadmap, but am not convinced this is a sustainable business model at the moment.

ApolloFortyNine 7y ago
Especially at $12 a serving... I find it really hard to believe you can't find a restaurant serving fresh Saag in San Francisco for that price. It is a very nice website though.
- jakear 7y ago
  I live in SF, and I ordered a sample of this product. I could (and have) found Saag nearby for a similar price point, but when you take it as a meal the benefits become more clear, as you don't pay tip and drinks are a lot cheaper.
gnicholas 7y ago
Oh, you haven't heard of Ramen Hero? [1] This is apparently a thing. At least ramen is a complete meal though. I eat lots of spinach (6 days a week) and like Indian food, but I would not consider this service because it is much too expensive for a side dish, and one that is widely available fresh and frozen (and in IMO is not made that much worse by freezing). 1: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1091208024/ramen-hero-the-ramen-meal-kit-delivered-to-your-do https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1091208024/ramen-hero-t...

big_chungus 7y ago

I'm not sure of exactly why ordering the same dish with three different balances of nutrients is appealing. People usually eat different foods and get nutrients that way. I'm pretty sure forcing people to eat the same thing every day was ruled some form of cruelyy [0]. This seems very niche and very gimmicky. You're offering exactly one thing with very little variety; even those who say they could eat this every day will eventually get sick of it. I hope you add products; that is how you will grow. [0]: https://gizmodo.com/lobsters-were-once-only-fed-to-poor-people-and-prisoner-1612356919 https://gizmodo.com/lobsters-were-once-only-fed-to-poor-peop...

kkarakk 7y ago
it's a similar value prop to soylent, which has a hardcore base