This reminds me of Juicero. It seems to be solving a problem that only exists in the Bay area.
Every office with a kitchen and a coffee maker in the world needs to deal with reordering supplies. This doesn't seem massively overpriced nor massively over-engineered. It's basically a scale that auto-presses a dash button for you.
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#142This kind of idea is why I'm not going to let my kids major in computer science (at least not just CS). The brains behind this startup could be doing something at least superficially useful, but apparently all they know are the technical 'solutions', and know nothing about real-world problems.
What an odd way to respond to two people willing to take the risk to start a new thing. You can say something similarly flippant and derogatory about most every company at its start. - "Books online?! Feh!" - "Power from hydrocarbons?! Nonsense! Get a real job!" - "Flying machines? We need more bicycles!" It would be better to engage with the founders and ask why they started the company and what they think the can a…
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#143This reminds me of Juicero. It seems to be solving a problem that only exists in the Bay area.
Food waste is a real problem. If perishables are repurchased automatically, that reduces the amount you need to buy at once, which in turn reduces the amount that can go bad. This problem extends far beyond the Bay Area.
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#144This reminds me of Juicero. It seems to be solving a problem that only exists in the Bay area.
Our most vocal and happy customers are regular people who live in the suburbs of Seattle. I've asked a lot of them and most aren't super into gadgets.
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#147You could make generic jars with longitudinal light detection strips to determine the fill level.
Is a strip cheaper than a load cell?
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#149Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's really nice! One thought - it might be helpful to have some way to seed the system with what you at least think is "normal" consumption? The one other thing that springs to mind is having some way to mark vacations or other disruptions to schedule? Also potentially a way to mark that you refilled some other way? Often when I'm on a trip, I'll bring home some coffee from a local roaster, so having a way to feed…
Interesting concept for seeding the system. We used to have something like that and dropped it because it wasn't too accurate. We do have a setting for turning off automatic re-ordering to handle vacations or unexpected bounties of coffee.
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#150Smart move to secure .com beforehand.