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I always keep my coffee beans in the freezer after opening the bag :/
If you can crack the market of auto-restocking a large variety of household goods, I think you're on to something, hopefully just using coffee as a starting point. I HATE managing 'subscription' services; it's more work than just reordering manually, (looking at you, Soylent and Amazon) and Amazon Dash buttons didn't help because the item you paired it to is never still around when you press the button. I wouldn't wa…
In a different life, I was working on a device that could turn any fridge into a smart fridge. Using computer vision to auto restock food when you ran low. The prototype felt pretty magical for the few food items it could recognize. Maybe some day later down the line :)
Specifically:
Toilet Paper
Diapers
Diaper Wipes
Paper Towels
Cat Litter
Laundry Detergent
Sanitary Napkins / Tampons
Auto-coffee refill is something I can avoid. Diaper stockout -- the horror!
? Why not add a RFID reader (relatively cheap) to the scale and then add tags on the coffee bags to be able to log the consumption for multiple types?
You could even be able to identify the weight of multiple objects (tracking what's on the scale and how the weight changes when it's removed and when it's put back) on a bigger(longer?) scale.
And you could sell kits with tags that people could slap on their own containers and register multiple custom items.
I agree, "autonomous dash button" is a nice way to present it, but if it was capable of detecting what's on it, it would become more or less a "sentient dash button", way better ;)
The biggest stockout problems in my life are those where an inconvenience turns into a big mess. If you can expand your thinking to that problem, I'm very interested. Specifically: Toilet Paper Diapers Diaper Wipes Paper Towels Cat Litter Laundry Detergent Sanitary Napkins / Tampons Auto-coffee refill is something I can avoid. Diaper stockout -- the horror!
Your list are all products we're planning to address eventually. The real question is: what do we do next?
Love the idea. Please try to add Madcap ( https://madcapcoffee.com/ ) to your list of coffee producers; they are one of the best coffee roasters in the US, in my opinion. They already have a traditional subscription model that ships all over the country.
We'll be sure to reach out! Thanks for the tip.
Madcap is also excellent, as well as Tandem, Wild Gift, Ritual...
On the other side, if you're not aware, you might take some flack for working with Four Barrel, since they've had fairly public issues with their founder sexually harassing folks, and then further shadyness: https://www.sfchronicle.com/restaurants/article/Four-Barrel-...
We stopped ordering from four barrel because of these reasons and I'd recommend you'd consider not carrying their coffee either.
> The only sensor in the scale is a weight sensor. ? Why not add a RFID reader (relatively cheap) to the scale and then add tags on the coffee bags to be able to log the consumption for multiple types? You could even be able to identify the weight of multiple objects (tracking what's on the scale and how the weight changes when it's removed and when it's put back) on a bigger(longer?) scale. And you could sell kits w…
The reason for the current format is that we want the scales to blend into your normal life. The scale is the size of one coffee bag so you just put it where you'd normally put your bag.
this is a lot better idea than those dash buttons. I wish you all the success, and hopefully you'll then be available here (UK)