An app can be a home-cooked meal

I was partly hardware and partly software, but, I'll tell you, I wrote an awful lot of software by hand (I still have the copies that are handwritten), and all of that went into the Apple II. Every byte that went into the Apple II, it had so many different mathematical routines, graphics routines, computer languages, emulators of other machines, wa

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At General Dexterity, I was contributing to an effort to make repetitive labor obsolete. After a trainer in the Task Acquisition Center taught an arm how to do something, all the arms did it perfectly, forever. In other words, you solved a problem once, and then you moved on to more interesting things. Baking, by contrast, was solving the same prob

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Social network for serious amateur cooks: Similar to Strava, you'd start by offering single-player tools. For Strava that's been routes and segments; for cooking that might be a database of web-crawled recipes with a Gantt chart interface to manage the timing of a multi-course meal. As a userbase develops, you'd start adding in multiplayer social f... See more