Hi Product Hunt! I’m 17, building & learning as I go 🚀
Hey everyone! 👋
I'm new here — I'm 17, currently juggling A-Levels and late-night debugging sessions. Been designing interfaces and building tools for a few years now, and I recently started putting something out into the world for the first time.
It’s called Whisk AI — basically, I wanted to make cooking feel less like a chore and more like a shortcut. Something that just gets your goals, ingredients, and time constraints without needing 20 tabs open. I’m hoping it’ll grow into a kind of personal food assistant over time.
Still early days (pre-launch), but I’ve really been enjoying seeing what others are building here, so figured I’d finally introduce myself.
Would love to hear what you’re working on too - or just say hey below 👇
Excited to be part of this space!
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Hey, welcome to Product Hunt! 👋
I love cooking and especially baking. I've also seen a lot of different products that try to solve this kind of issue by giving you more information and being a kind of assistant while you cook, but it definitely feels like there's still room for a good solution. Aiming for something that takes into account ingredients and time constraints seems like a great way to go about this.
In terms of what I've been working on lately, outside of working at Product Hunt, I also recently shipped a Chrome extension that hopefully helps people get a little bit of mindfulness back into their daily work. @& Breathe
Excited to have you on Product Hunt and I look forward to seeing more about Whisk AI!
@jakecrump Thank you a lot for the comment and support! (first one across all posts, it is really is appreciated)
Yes, my main concern was about differentiating the product, I think I'm trying to go down a duolingo kinda route with marketing? I feel like this has some potential. These are exactly my thoughts! ' I've also seen a lot of different products that try to solve this kind of issue by giving you more information and being a kind of assistant while you cook, but it definitely feels like there's still room for a good solution.' Seems like there hasn't been something that actually just 'pops' yet, that actually has user retention. That's the goal! Time constraints seems interesting, I'll definitely be looking into that.
Your extension looks really interesting too. Break from the chaos!
Edit: you seem to be someone with lot's of experience seeing products! i'm curious, what do you think of the way i've branded it? https://www.producthunt.com/p/whisk-ai/whisk-ai
Product Hunt
@whisk Yeah, very happy to give some feedback! Just took a look at your website, and I have a few notes:
I'd actually recommend not having the 'Tip' pop up shown in the main image. It kind of covers up a fair amount of the screen, and as a new user, I want to fully see what the homepage has on it so I know what's going to be available.
The phrase: "Serving looks and recipes" doesn't quite make sense to me. I'm not quite sure what the looks are. I'd maybe think about changing that.
I'd also recommend actually having a form input here for folks to put their email in order to sign up for early access instead of having the App Store and Play Store links. In my experience, having the buttons there, but not actually having them link to a listing, tends to lead to a "bad feeling". You're expecting to get to see info on an app store and maybe download, but now you see it's just not available. I find it's much better to go ahead and set expectations. I think it'd be good to mention, maybe under the input, that you're targeting iOS and Android releases.
The How It Works section has a bit of inconsistency in tone and style. I'd recommend not having any of them in the first person (for example: "I'll analyze..."). I'd stick with the style of the first one about snapping a picture. I'd recommend the headings be: Snap ingredients - Detection and suggestions - Cook and track. I think this would be a bit more consistent.
This part is great, love the slogan and not being responsible for great meals. I would recommend capitalizing the Your in the slogan.
I also noticed that you have a sticky header for the website. I'm not sure that's really needed. I'd keep the logo at the top and not have it be sticky as your scroll personally.
And then one last general thought. From looking at the launch and a lot of the messaging, I was surprised that there was calorie counting in the app. I was kind of expecting it to just be focused on getting ideas for what to cook and not that there'd be a health/fitness angle. I think it's good to have, but I'd maybe think through where you could introduce that idea into some of your messaging.
Feel free to take all of this with a grain of salt (pun intended) as it's just my personal opinion. I think you're well on your way to making something cool! Best of luck!
@jakecrump Thank you, I've considered all the things you've written and 100% agree. Already changed up the play / app store links since I had flagged that earlier, and will do for the rest too. I didn't realise lot's of them given I'm doin solo, glad there's a community like this! And thank you for the time taken to write quality actual targeted feedback too. 'I was kind of expecting it to just be focused on getting ideas for what to cook and not that there'd be a health/fitness angle' It's not a hard focus but a very subtle thing, when you eat something calories are tracked against a daily recommended limit based on onboarding info! (health goals, bmi)
Thanks again for the feedback & support, this is really valuable and will be working based on this