cook what you want

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Cook what you want is a food-based metaphor for the IndieWeb principle of make what you need, encouraging creators to make improvements on their personal sites that they themselves want to use. It is the complementary metaphor to eat what you cook.

Brainstorming

Expanding to include others

Similar to: make_what_you_need#Expand_from_you_to_others, cooking in particular is a good metaphor to encourage eventual broadening to include others:

• Cook for yourself and a friend
• Cook and host a dinner party

Etc.

See Also

• make what you need
• eat what you cook
• https://twitter.com/devonzuegel/status/1501232676082106370
  • ""an app can be a home-cooked meal" by @robinsloan is one of those phrases that echoes in my head a few times every year https://www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-cooked-app" @devonzuegel March 8, 2022