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If this is serious, you are solving the wrong problem. You assume that you can mail order the coffee your clients want through an API, this is the hard part. I
by Grustaf 8y ago
If this is serious, you are solving the wrong problem.
You assume that you can mail order the coffee your clients want through an API, this is the hard part. It's not hard for people to know and signal that they want more coffee. But even worse, you limit coffee variety to a small fraction, most gourmet beans don't even have websites.
But if we are assuming API-reachable mail ordering, here are some much simpler solutions:
An amazon button next to the grinder.
A one click app with a today view widget. It can even pro-actively suggest that it might be time to order more.
*Automatic re-ordering on a schedule that is easily changeable. Almost everyone will have fairly constant consumption patterns, getting new coffee a few days too early sometimes is not an issue, it won't go bad.
- DebtDeflation 8y ago>An amazon button next to the grinder. Amazon just announced, a little over a week ago, that they are killing the Dash buttons. As part of the announcement, they said they believe that the whole concept has outlived it's usefulness and has been replaced by voice ordering with virtual assistants ("Alexa, order coffee"). I think the real problem was that the idea of having a separate button for every product was untenable. The same issue faces OP's concept - are we really going to put a separate network-connected scale under every single consumable good in the house?
- Grustaf 8y agoYes i know they did, but it would still be a much better solution to this “problem”. I think those buttons are a nice idea by the way, i’m surprised it failed!