mizzao

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   by mizzao 4y ago

   We actually did this in a previous version of the product, you can still try it: https://beta.parsnip.ai/ Turns out it was a bad idea and we had to pivot, here's why: https://parsnip.substack.com/p&#x2F
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   by mizzao 4y ago

   I think Satya did a pretty good job changing Microsoft's culture. This let them go after cloud, O365, gaming, and more product instead of sales led.
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   by mizzao 4y ago

   We actually tried building a PWA for a previous iteration of Parsnip and it was a terrible experience. You can still try it here: https://beta.parsnip.ai/ I don't think PWAs are ready for mass adoption yet... and they
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   by mizzao 4y ago

   Nope, we definitely don't sell weed. Seed & Stone comes from the idea that a small, tiny seed can grow and grow into a plant with thick enough roots to be as strong as (or even split in two) a stone. So, a metaphor for starting fro
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   by mizzao 4y ago

   I'm actually ethnically Chinese but I learned to cook Western cuisine before Chinese food (which you can see plenty of on our Discord: https://discord.gg/P4qpxsJ6A8 ) We'll be adding more ethnic foods in soon, whic
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   by mizzao 4y ago

   Thanks for the feedback, I'll think about how to address that. Did you realize that you could save your progress along the way and you didn't necessarily have to unlock the recipe?
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   by mizzao 4y ago

   I've thought about this and I think the choices here are: - get everything for free, but it's all disorganized and someone else is selling your data to target you with ads - you can pay $45k for 3 months of cooking school - pay ~
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   by mizzao 4y ago

   Thanks for your suggestion! We definitely have an "in-app wiki" of sorts in our future plans.
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   by mizzao 4y ago

   Right now we're mostly focused on beginners and don't have more advanced content / more international cuisines yet. But we have some baking and Ukrainian dishes landing soon! Is that what you mean by recipes tied to skills, o
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    by mizzao 4y ago

    Thanks! We may get some Thai cuisine in Parsnip sooner than you think ;-)
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    by mizzao 4y ago

    We actually built a previous version of the app as a PWA but the experience and performance was horrible. You can still try it here: https://beta.parsnip.ai/ Warning: this is not a great user experience; it's somewhat
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    by mizzao 4y ago

    Thanks, we'll take a look. Do you remember what that dialog was specifically? I think the one you're referring to is only supposed to appear once, but if it's appearing multiple times we'll fix it.
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    by mizzao 4y ago

    The wisdom from Duolingo is that 90% of users didn't care about lessons but 10% really wanted them. So out of the Pareto principle, we skipped the lessons for the MVP. Definitely plan to add them in later.
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    by mizzao 4y ago

    Here's someone in this very thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32270169
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    by mizzao 4y ago

    I think it would be a miracle if any product could teach you how to cook and get you food in 5 minutes. I'm not sure it's possible. But, I think we can get you there after a few weeks of using Parsnip on a regular basis, with some
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    by mizzao 4y ago

    Oh, that was a version of the question we didn't ship where one or more of the choices was actually wrong , so you would have to leave it out of the final ordering. In that interface you didn't have to select all of the choices.
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    by mizzao 4y ago

    I think you're predicting some interesting future technical problems with Parsnip, which is to build a personalized user-specific knowledge graph that is simultaneously overlaid across generalized common knowledge elements. One thing a
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    by mizzao 4y ago

    We created Parsnip because we believe that even beginners can cook in this way (i.e. making a plate of scrambled eggs), by first understanding what they have to do and then following high-level instructions using those principles. Rather th
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    by mizzao 4y ago

    OP here. a16z has a thesis that education will go from 1. teaching in a class and taking a test, to 2. teaching in online videos and taking an online test, to 3. modular, choose your own adventure, at your own pace, software-supplemented, c
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    by mizzao 4y ago

    Awesome comparison to learning programming. Parsnip 5 years from now may have a recipes with a slider you can drag with "completely from scratch" on one end and "as fast as possible" on the other, which helps even beginn
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    by mizzao 4y ago

    OP here. A couple of thoughts... We created this app to focus on teaching beginners, so the content assumes no prior knowledge (for now). It's clearly eliciting strong reactions from experienced cooks, who have many opinions about how
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    by mizzao 4y ago

    I'm 99% percent that washing ground beef is a wrong answer -- what we teach NOT to do is just as important as teaching what to do. Same way how it's more important to know the ways a startup fails than to see what the successful o
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    by mizzao 4y ago

    Bingo! Here's some of that first customer base: https://www.reddit.com/r/cookingforbeginners/comments/vbgqq6...
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    by mizzao 4y ago

    The goal we're building toward is that you can pick any recipe on the Internet and learn it in this way. But first we have to start with a small group (beginners) and make sure it's actually fun and interesting for them. I explain
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    by mizzao 4y ago

    It was built by an awesome team (mostly Ukrainian) called Tapforce: https://www.tapforce.com/ Here's a story about them that will knock your socks off: https://parsnip.substack.com/p/engineering-pl
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    by mizzao 4y ago

    What country are you in and how do you feel it's US centric?
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    by mizzao 4y ago

    I appreciate the perspective, it's a common objection. Similar arguments I've heard are that in order to learn to cook, you need to do one of: - read a lot of cookbooks and understand them - go watch a ton of YouTube videos and tr
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    by mizzao 4y ago

    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
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    by mizzao 4y ago

    Did you do all the levels in Avocado Toast? If so, that's a bug :(
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    by mizzao 4y ago

    We definitely don't collect any e-mail content, nor do we request access to your e-mail!