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?
Our idea is that as a beginner/novice, trying to find the right free cooking video, and getting better through repeated trial and error,
is inferior to
knowing that you have trustworthy information, a path to improvement, and the ability to track your progress over time.
Re: meal service without delivery of ingredients...yes! That's basically what experienced home cooks already do. But there's a few steps before we get there. Here's the vision: https://parsnip.substack.com/p/vision-part-one
I'll admit its been many years since I was a novice at cooking but it seems like its going to be a big challenge monetizing something you can get for free from hundreds of thousands of sources with detailed video instructions.
You might have a very narrow niche of 'nerdy enough for cooking app, not nerdy enough to search on youtube and doesn't want video instructions' which is a lot more limited than any beginner cook.
From my experience once you find someone on youtube whose videos you like their video history is a huge library of recipes from them, so it isn't always difficult to look through youtube and find recipes - I have a double handful of channels I know and like and earning credibility isn't their challenge given their videos wide success.
Is this sort of like a meal service without the delivery of ingredients?