My initial reaction to this post was very dismissive. I was ready to jump into the comments and nod along with everyone else shitting all over it.
But, I don't want to be like CmdrTaco and the iPod, or whoever thought an rsync bash script could replace Dropbox.
If you prove this out with coffee, and work on making it for all "constant" foods in the home, this would be awesome.
Milk, butter, cheese, eggs, soda, cereal, apples, tortilla chips, baby food, etc. A whole section in the fridge or pantry that a user could arrange how they like, and use the app to set restock thresholds. Smart logic on your end to bundle items in as few shipments as possible (i.e. send the butter restock a week before you really need to, because other items are queued up now) and this becomes a magic grocery delivery service where—not only do you not need to go to the store—you don't even need to think about placing an order!
Good luck on this, and probably a good decision to target coffee snobs first.
That's kind of my point. I buy coffee every week but rarely the same one. In fact discovering, comparing and contrasting various beans, washes, roasts and preparation types is half the joy of coffee.
Me too, but I also like the “surprise me” subscription services like wine clubs. It’d be a decent backup plan if too many users complained about the monotony.
I like coffee but it's now mostly a utility for me. Same with milk and eggs and butter. I have a fixed brand (not that there are too many options in my local market) and I buy it by default
I’ll bite and say the reason this failed was the convience. If you merely set a carton of eggs on a weighted shelf and it would automatically order more when you’re low, it might’ve done better, and, been more generalist.
I’ll offer the optimistic hope that people are more willing to put a bag onto a scale after making a cup of joe with the added benefit of automatically having the “nuisance” of ordering and delivering solved. (Non perishable, etc)
As we learned earlier today, eggs make a lousy dietary staple. And since it isn't addictive like coffee, knowing is half the battle, and not ten percent of the battle like it seems to be with caffeine. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19403468
Eggs are a major food, but they aren't relied upon like coffee.
Thanks for recommending that! It was a great podcast and I'm excited to listen to some of the others because this is the first I've heard of Invest Like The Best.
But, I don't want to be like CmdrTaco and the iPod, or whoever thought an rsync bash script could replace Dropbox.
If you prove this out with coffee, and work on making it for all "constant" foods in the home, this would be awesome.
Milk, butter, cheese, eggs, soda, cereal, apples, tortilla chips, baby food, etc. A whole section in the fridge or pantry that a user could arrange how they like, and use the app to set restock thresholds. Smart logic on your end to bundle items in as few shipments as possible (i.e. send the butter restock a week before you really need to, because other items are queued up now) and this becomes a magic grocery delivery service where—not only do you not need to go to the store—you don't even need to think about placing an order!
Good luck on this, and probably a good decision to target coffee snobs first.