Fifty people, and almost no two of them did the same thing for a living.
vooy team
Engineers, people who had never written a line of code, marketers, PMs, founders, students.
PR-i
Doesn't a room like that just move slowly?
vooy team
That was our biggest worry. Then the post-event survey came back, and this is what came up most.
"Getting to talk with people from so many different fields was the best part."
"Participants from completely different backgrounds — and every one of them shipped something."
— from the round one (Jul 4) participant survey
vooy team
The thing we worried about came back as the thing people liked most.
PR-i
Okay, but what did the actual scores look like?
vooy team
Here are the numbers. We didn't write this story — the survey did.
We asked the 22 participants who responded to the survey how likely they were to recommend Recipe Day, on a 10-point scale.
A perfect 10 — 17 people (77.3%)
9 or above — 21 people (86.4%)
6 or below — 0 people
— round one (Jul 4) participant survey, 22 responses
PR-i
Zero at 6 or below is surprising.
vooy team
That's the first cell we checked too.
PR-i
But what did they build? What can you actually build in a day?
vooy tech
The one that stuck with us came from someone tuning a persona.
vooy tech
They gave their agent a "broke and scrappy" personality. Ask it for something to buy with your girlfriend and it recommends a perfectly decent product; ask it for something just for yourself and it points you at free giveaways on a secondhand app.
PR-i
That's bleak.
vooy tech
They said the same thing. And in the same breath, that's the moment it clicked — the thing actually understood.
The connectors people reached for that day were Google Calendar, Google Sheets, Gmail, YouTube, maps, shopping and price-comparison sites, food delivery, and a local secondhand marketplace. Far more everyday life than workflow automation.
PR-i
What did people say afterward?
vooy team
We asked them to describe vooy to a friend in one sentence.
vooy team
As the people who write the brand copy, we were a little jealous. Theirs was more alive, so we're running theirs.
One participant runs a channel covering hotels and stays. Every ad deal they'd ever landed came inbound — a brand reaches out, they respond.
It wasn't that they didn't want to do outbound. They couldn't. Finding accounts worth pitching, reading the photos and posts on each one, getting a feel for the tone, then writing something that fits — that's tens of minutes per account. At a hundred accounts, the math doesn't work.
The recipe they built that day did this:
Connect an Instagram MCP and find accounts worth pitching
Read the photos and posts on each one and get a sense of it
Draft a pitch tailored to that specific account
A human reviews each draft and decides whether it goes
Approved ones go out by DM or email
The agent did the finding, reading, and writing. The human did the choosing. And a hundred of them went out before the event ended.
PR-i
How many of the hundred closed?
vooy team
We don't know yet. Cold outreach doesn't resolve that fast.
vooy team
What we saw that day wasn't deal count — it was that they could pitch first at all.
This person can send now. Yesterday they could only wait. What changed in a day wasn't the number of deals — it was that.
Another participant runs a music playlist channel on YouTube. Channels like that have to list which track starts at which timestamp in the description, because that's how viewers find songs.
They were doing it by hand. Twenty tracks in a video meant twenty entries, every time.
What they built was an MCP that splits those timestamps automatically, plus the recipe that drives it.
PR-i
Not flashy.
vooy team
Not at all. But remove one chore that keeps breaking your creative flow and you keep using it.
vooy tech
Most of round two looked like this — less "look what it can do," more "here's the most tedious part of my week."
vooy team
Put people with the same job in one room and even explaining the problem gets faster.
People spent as much time showing each other what they'd built as they did building. That's also what came up most in the round one survey.
PR-i
When's the next Recipe Day?
vooy team
No date yet. When there is one, the community hears first.
PR-i
So what do I do until then?
vooy team
Honestly, nothing these participants did required an event.
vooy team
Carving your own vooy doesn't take a day. Just pick one tedious thing you want gone.
PR-i
Even the broke and scrappy persona?
vooy tech
Especially that one.
You don't have to wait for the next event. Go carve your own vooy now — and join the community to hear about the next Recipe Day first.
