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by mizzao 4y ago
My co-founder handled the privacy policy so I've pinged him to provide a response. We'll get back to you as soon as possible! EDIT : lynndotpy was right; it's required by law under COPPA if we have users under 13. It's
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by mizzao 4y ago
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
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Show HN: Parsnip – Duolingo for Cooking(parsnip.ai)
536 points by mizzao 4y ago|365 comments
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Seems like we're on a slow burn to a crappy Slack product. What should we be switching to instead...Teams?
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The most famous example is perhaps the recent weeks-long Jira outage, right?
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Why No One Answers Their Phone Anymore (2018)(theatlantic.com)
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by mizzao 4y ago
For others who might not have seen it, here's what the Lockpicking Lawyer had to say about that. He picked a lock with the same concept by swighton (Stuff Made Here), but exploited a flaw that had nothing to do with the mechanism. htt
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by mizzao 4y ago
I love your product and have been recommending it to everyone who asks. Now, I'm not so sure. And I'll definitely have to caveat it with this event. Was that worth it? Word of mouth is highly influential for how startup founders p
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by mizzao 4y ago
Yeah, this is scary AF because we are getting ready to raise as we get closer to the end of our runway and now I'm looking over my shoulder wondering if Brex is going to kick us out because we don't have enough cash in the bank. C
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We're a startup on Brex. Not sure if we're about to get the boot. If you're going to service startups as Brex, 80-90% are going to just cost you money and then disappear when they fail. Not sure how they're going to turn
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by mizzao 4y ago
Mmm... if we're an early-stage startup, is that a small business? And if the answer is no, then does that mean if we're not growing fast enough / raising money fast enough, you will kick us out? Please clarify.
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by mizzao 4y ago
> I like building stuff that people use, not writing papers that mostly went unread. I had the same feeling! And as it turns out, many of the skills are transferable: https://twitter.com/mizzao/status/1505529213
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by mizzao 4y ago
Yep, in fact here's a book about that human nature: https://www.amazon.com/Lying-Money-Legendary-Frauds-Workings...
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by mizzao 4y ago
https://oskarstalberg.com/Townscaper/ thrillingly designed, and amazing what can be done in WebGL
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Medium, the platform that has somehow figured out the miracle of how to make plain text take 30 seconds to load.
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by mizzao 4y ago
Some more ideas (mostly for future me revisiting this thread): Golden age -> "oxygen is the momentum of a startup"; good culture building unlocks a bunch of superpowers of your employees (like, your growth person generates seve
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by mizzao 4y ago
Aw man, I made some truly OP bots for bot land. And a set up a custom TypeScript to BotLandScript compiler for them: https://github.com/mizzao/bot.land So many improvements in that repo, that I didn't get to finis
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by mizzao 4y ago
This reminds me of https://bot.land/ An amazing game for programmers but one that was shut down due to lack of monetization...
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by mizzao 4y ago
Analogically... if Spotify did not create their own pop music you would not be a happy Spotify investor either? Spotify is the platform, not the artist. They make money as long as people are publishing content. They don't need do mak
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by mizzao 4y ago
I'm as surprised as you to announce that as of yesterday the answer is yes: https://parsnip.substack.com/p/engineering-plot-twist
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by mizzao 4y ago
Want to come check out https://parsnip.ai - "Duolingo for cooking?" We're here in NYC.
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by mizzao 4y ago
Issues line these aren't out of the question as the baseline for cheating is pretty high, see this recent thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31544634
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by mizzao 4y ago
Well, it could be causal right... If you can't beat 'em join 'em! (or in this case, propose to 'em)
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by mizzao 4y ago
How does this "wife's boyfriend" thing work?
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by mizzao 4y ago
Civilization, but where you start a company instead of a country. Here are some analogies: Exploring and collecting goody huts, fighting off barbarians -> going around the idea maze trying to find product market fit Catherine cozies up t
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Kimchi Making at Home Was Going Out of Style. Rural Towns to the Rescue. (2020)(nytimes.com)
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This article set off a lightbulb as a possible explanation for the prevalence of osteoporosis in older Asian women. If the mechanism is: unfiltered sunlight -> Vitamin D production -> increased calcium absorption -> decreased risk
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by mizzao 4y ago
That box of tools reminds me of the engineering teardown of the Juicero: https://blog.bolt.io/juicero/
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Oh, they sure as heck are gonna get away with it, see this Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/sharplm/status/1524024667576619008 Students are going to generate writing they didn't do with GPT-3 And teachers
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by mizzao 4y ago
What actually maintains the value of the US dollar is the demand that is created by how it's the only thing you can use to pay the taxes you owe to the US government. Even if no one cared about dollars for anything else, this would sti

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