anulman

Site: https://cookformom.com

Source: https://github.com/anulman/cook-for-mom

Creator here . I've been working on a free, six-week, online cooking class to help beginner and novice chefs build skills, toward the goal of preparing a 3-course gourmet meal guaranteed to impress mom for Mother's Day.

I appreciate that landing pages are generally frowned upon as Show HNs; if you feel compelled to downvote, I understand.

While I'm certainly hoping to recruit some cooks among us, I wanted to share this project because I want your feedback on this as a conversion tool, and I hope to share back any ideas or implementations you find interesting.

Some "neat stuff" you might appreciate:

- Though this is an Ember.js app, it loads _real_ quick due to a prebuilt index.html deployed (with all relevant assets) to Firebase CDN [1]

- There are nudges and triggers all over the place. An exit intent nudge gets registered as soon as you scroll past "Menu". Try hovering over the nav bar before and after. This only works once, because we don't want to annoy the user. [2]

- I set a consistent fingerprint across all analytics tools, using a lib espoused by adtech friends [3]

- If on Chrome, the parallax is responsive to resizes, supports variable height, _and_ is hecka performant—even in light of all of the listeners + analytics code. [4]

- The source for the welcome email is public too; it is generated with HEML [5]

Thanks HN!

[1] ember-cli-build.js#L13-L18

[2] app/pods/index/nav-bar/component.js#L35-L38

[3] app/metrics-adapters/segment.js#L23-L40

[4] app/pods/components/parallax-container/fluid/component.js#L24-L39; I'm hoping to extend this to Safari / Firefox too and have a halfway-working impl (they rely on odd DOM hacks and compute the transform differently); please message if you can help!

[5] heml/welcome.heml; I plan to extend this into compiler tooling to better separate concerns & reuse components, in order to generate the weeks' content

A bit of background: I'm taking part in a Canadian incubator program. My co-founders and I have been given the option of using half of our money to pay for development from the program's development partners at a good rate, or to take the money in cash and source our own development.

The development partners only have a background in .NET programming. We're worried about this because we may not still have access to this team after August, and the two members of our founding team with development experience don't know .NET. How common are strong .NET developers who thrive in small startup environments?

That said, there are some benefits: the developers we have access to have a ton of experience, we won't have to spend time sourcing external development, and they're charging us roughly at cost for their hours.

Our timeline is pretty strict: we need to have our product ready by August. But we also don't want to compromise our potential for future growth.

Any advice or experiences you can share would be incredibly helpful, as we need to make our decision in the next week.

asarazan posted a now-deleted thread about an album he posted on Github. In the comments, I posted the following:

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I actually had something like this built (before I started coding) as a startup out of Rails & Flex... but, after ~12 months of being unable to solve some UX problems and pursuing the wrong business model, it's now just sitting online.

URL = http://youphonics.com/login; username => hnguest; password => goodolyc

Since some of you actually seem to be into the idea of Github'ing music (ericb, baddox, asarazan, xpaulbettsx, mrspeaker, zcid, JoachimShipper, johnny22, beaumartinez...), it'd be neat if any of you want to help me package and open source the code base!

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I hope that, even though the original thread may not have been appropriate... this is. :)

[Edited for formatting, added guest credentials]