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Great to look up your shopping list for a new menu while at the store, can't wait to Instacart comes to my neighborhood so I can click a couple of buttons and have my whole list delivered.
@chrissherrod I actually just used the Instacart feature for the first time this week - and I think it's great, but one thing that was tricky is not being able to switch to a different grocery store once all the ingredients had been ported over from Platejoy. There are some things that are so expensive at Whole Foods when Safeway has just as good Organics in some departments now.
@krystha_tweets @chrissherrod Thanks guys! @Krystha - we can help with this - our CTO @bluejade will send you a follow-up email. :)
Hi PHers!
Excited to launch the PlateJoy smart meal planner to make personalized nutrition a reality for everyone, no matter where you live. :)
What’s new:
* PlateJoy uses over 50 data points about your lifestyle, preferences, and health goals to determine exactly what you should be eating each week to feel your best. Then we send you personalized shopping lists and recipes on-demand that match all your preferences. Support for paleo, vegan, whole30, weight loss, kid-friendly, muscle-building, quick & easy, and MANY other styles of eating are available!
* Meal plans are available internationally! You can shop for yourself with time-saving shopping lists on our mobile app (Android and iOS), or get ingredients delivered in an hour through our integration with Instacart/Whole Foods in 22 cities. (No more wasteful packaging and FedEx boxes to break down, ahem.)
* Nutrition-focused coaches are always on hand with personal advice to help you achieve your goals.
* Algorithms remember what you already have in your pantry and utilize ingredients across recipes each week to reduce food waste.
We're super excited to make eating well and feeling great easier. Would love to answer any questions + thanks for checking it out!
-Christina
PS - Use code YAYPH20 by June 30 for $20 off your membership: platejoy.com
Hey @cbognet - sounds cool. Do you partner with any other nutritional companies as well to provide more intricate/unique superfoods & supplements; or is everything based from what can be purchased at WholeFoods?
Best of luck!
@dannyfiorentini Hey Danny! Whole Foods has over 20,000 different items these days, so creating nutritious menus from their ingredients provides a lot of good variety. And food is definitely the best source of micronutrients. Our nutrition coaches will also make supplementation recommendations based on your dietary preference (e.g., B complex for vegetarians and vegans). Thanks for the well wishes!
@cbognet Right ok - reason for the question was to see if you guys are going to partner with external companies as well as WholeFoods down the line if it makes sense, to provide additional specialty ranges.
Love the product/service, but I'm not going to pay for something before trying it. Especially something as hit/miss as meal recommendations
@jbschaff Hey Jared! If you'd like a trial, just email me christina@
Sounds great from the comments. Downloaded the app in Australia to have a look, and it has a signup for current customers only. It doesn't have the option to create an account or see what it has to offer beforehand, so it's a delete for me.
@heidi_helen Hey Heidi - yes, you need to create an account via platejoy.com on web and then you can sign in via the app. Sorry the confusion - it's an iOS rule with a service like ours.
Really like the idea. Only thing that stood out for me was the fact that pricing is not mentioned until you provided an email already and go through the survey portion. Once you get to the pricing, it's very fair.
Looks awesome Christina. Gonna recommend Platejoy to a friend who is just learning to cook. Do you have a favorite cookbook for beginners learning the art & science of cooking?
I like the idea .... what is your strategy to scale this product as different region will have different eating habits / dishes ?
@_vineetshukla We have a good number of international users already but we're always adding new recipes to accommodate more users with different tastes.
Looks awesome. Can you tell the story behind how this specific product came about?
@eriktorenberg Hey Erik! Enjoy your podcasts. I started PlateJoy after losing 50 lbs and wanting to help other eat better. We wanted to make sure we could serve a large audience (not just silicon valley) so expanded beyond our delivery product into a consumer app that everyone can use at their local grocery store. You can still send your ingredient list to Instacart, as mentioned above, but you can just as easily take it to the store with you in a small town in Pennsylvania. We also wanted to focus more on accommodating very specific diets (like low FODMAP for people with stomach issues or prediabetic patients) and have greatly improved the functionality for these users. :)
Looks great, I've been using similar food delivery products before and this seems to address some annoyances we had with having limited options.
Aside from purchasing my items, what's the cost for using this?
@michaelenriquez Hi Michael! It's $59 for 6 months or $89 for 12 months. But with the ProductHunt discount, you get $20 off until June 30! :) (Code: YAYPH20)
the "how is works" is too hard to find. felt forced to put an email. was disturbing. without all the raving here in PH would've closed the page in 5 seconds.
@danr_4 Hope you ended up getting through okay, Dan! Thanks in advance for checking us out.
I've used so many nutrition products and coaches over the past year and almost all of them rely heavily on you downloading an app in order to get good, quality content! I love that PlateJoy is entirely platform independent, and is focused more on helping me do my thing - then doing it for me (aka other services that are more about meal delivery than fitting themselves into my lifestyle). I'll definitely be using this for the next few weeks to see how it goes!
Hunted by @garyvee... Exploding much? Another Aussie here, excited to see uptake with more localisations. Great work guys
I absolutely love PlateJoy. I've been using it for the past 8 months and have gotten a bunch of my friends to use it too. It's been super helpful in a lot of ways:
--way more variety in my cooking/meals
--adds and element of surprise to meal planning (I look forward to seeing new meals for the week)
--helps me stay healthy despite dietary restrictions/food allergies
--makes grocery shopping more efficient/less stressful
--save money grocery shopping because I'm not buying random stuff
I also love that PlateJoy really cares about its users. They NPS customers regularly, and their founder has personally responded to my comments. They're always adding new features based on users' feedback. Basically, it's super affordable and awesome, and y'all should all try it.
@cmseyler Camille! You're the best. Thank you so much for this <3 And good to know you don't mind our regular NPS surveying :D
@cmseyler Nice I'll add this to my Healthy Diet 2.0 collection https://www.producthunt.com/@gab...
I got PlateJoy after I cooked the following in two weeks in a row: Chicken Fajitas, Beef Tacos, Spaghetti Bolognese, Chicken Fajitas, Takeout, Takeout, Takeout.
I came to terms with the fact that I'm a lazy cook who could use a little help.
Then I found the app that everyone thinks should exist: the app that just tells you what your going to eat, what you need to buy to eat it, and how to cook it. It didn't exist before, but now it does: PlateJoy.
PlateJoy is not a food delivery service. PlateJoy is not training wheels for people who don't know a cutting board from a cubano. PlateJoy is not dozens of tiny plastic packets of sugar and herbs packed in a distribution center and drop shipped to your house wrapped in ice cubes.
PlateJoy is a way for you to do something you already wanted to do: cook healthy meals every night with ingredients you like from the store down the street. Minimal thinking, good food, easy to tweak if you want, and very low food waste.
BTW: my meals this week: Open-faced prosciutto, egg and arugula sandwich, Thai-style tilapia with red curry sweet potatoes, and Soba noodle stir-fry with green beans and egg. Oh and Prosciutto-wrapped dates.
@kennystoltz Oh, thank you SO much, Kenny! You're a doll. Great at giving UX feedback and at writing fun reviews - why are we surprised? :)
I've been using PlateJoy for about 8 months now and it has made meal planning for my husband and I so stress-free. I used to spend a few hours every Sunday deciding what to make for the week having to balance my own personal preferences with my husband's - and then on top of that trying to find recipes that used similar ingredients so that we didn't waste food. Grocery shopping was disorderly, hodge-podge guesswork for me, but Platejoy has almost completely removed these cumbersome tasks from me now.
After a few weeks of using Platejoy, we bought a bulletin board for the kitchen in order to pin the printed recipes so that we both are aware of what's available in the fridge to make for the week. This has been a HUGE help because we never get home at consistent times - so whoever gets home first can start making dinner right away without any guesswork as to what's in the fridge or not.
I highly recommend this to anyone that wants to ensure you're cooking at home at least a few times a week.
I'd be interested to see future partnerships they forge - like LifeSum or MyPlate.
@krystha_tweets Woo!!! I LOVE the bulletin board idea, Krystha!! And we'll definitely consider those partnerships in the future. We now allow you to connect with JawBone & FitBit in beta.
@_nehajain @platejoy Hi Neha - we can support vegetarian + low carb, but getting enough protein and fat on a low carb diet that doesn't allow animal products is tough. Hope to have it someday soon. Alternatively, you can select our vegan plan and omit pasta + bread via our exclusion ingredients. In that case, you'll rarely see more than 50g of carbs in any recipe and most of the carbs are coming from fruits and vegetables.
I love the customization with portion sizes and ingredients. PlateJoy has introduced my family to healthier meals that meet our preferences. The app makes shopping a breeze. I usually use a hand written shopping list and several times have been saved by referencing the app. We have so many new favorites from using Platejoy!
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