Launching today
BeanRitual
AI assistant that helps you dial in your best espresso shot
30 followers
AI assistant that helps you dial in your best espresso shot
30 followers
Every bag of coffee needs its own settings, and a month later you've forgotten them. BeanRitual remembers. Photograph the bag and the app reads the label. Note each espresso: dose, grind, time, yield, and good or not yet. Star the one that worked, and it's waiting on that bag's page next time. Free, no account. In beta on iPhone: join at coffee.saylib.com and I'll send you an invitation.
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Hi Product Hunt, I'm Dounia.
I make espresso at home, and every new bag of beans costs me two or three bad shots before a good one. A month later I buy the same coffee again and I've forgotten the settings. Notes on my phone and apps with too many fields never stuck.
So I built BeanRitual. You photograph the bag and the app reads the label. You note each espresso you make: dose, grind, time, yield, and good or not yet. Then you star the one that worked, and next time it's waiting on that bag's page, with the machine and grinder you used.
It's free, there's no account, and your coffees and notes stay on your iPhone. The photo of the bag goes to our server to read the label, and our server doesn't keep it. Three anonymous counts (app opened, shot saved, coffee reopened) tell me whether anyone comes back.
It's the first of 6 products I'm building in 60 days, so it's young. Right now it's a beta for iPhone: leave your email at coffee.saylib.com and I'll send you an invitation to try it with TestFlight, Apple's beta app. The App Store release comes after. The label reading sometimes gets things wrong, which is why every field can be edited. I'd love to know which bags fool it.
Two questions for you: how do you keep track of your espresso settings today? And what would make you open an app like this a second time?
I'll answer every comment today.
@dounia_boughalem Interesting launch, congrats ! =)
Are you planning an android version?
Hey@adana Thank you!
Yes, it's planned after the iPhone beta. I'll write to you when I have a date :)
@dounia_boughalem that's great! Wish you lots of success ...
@adana Thank you, very thoughtful of you!
@dounia_boughalem very excited for this launch
Thank you so much@manar_toumi1 !
@dounia_boughalem love that it doesn’t force you to create an account before you can even use it... nice think
Hey@priya_kushwaha1 ! Glad you noticed that! We really wanted to keep the first experience frictionless 🙌 ! Curious, what usually makes you drop an app during onboarding?
@dounia_boughalem Thanks for spelling out what leaves the phone and what doesn't. Photo goes to the server for reading, not kept, rest stays on the iPhone. That's clear and I don't have to go digging
Congrats on your launch @dounia_boughalem !! What made you decide to build this as the first of your 6 products?
Hey @amraniyasser , I thought it was important to start building with something that solves one of my own daily pain points, and this is definitely one of them! My brain only kickstarts after an espresso, so my whole day basically hinges on this 😄
this is such a simple but real pain 😭 the “forgot the settings for this bag” problem is way too relatable. love that you’re keeping it focused instead of turning it into another overbuilt coffee app. congrats dounia ☕️
Hey @thislam !
This is so on point, mothing more humbling than knowing you made the perfect cup yesterday and having no idea how 😭 !!
Curious to know, how do you keep track of your settings today, notes, photos, memory, or pure chaos? ☕️
@dounia_boughalem haha honestly mostly memory + a few random notes 😭 which works right up until i buy the same bag 2 months later and have absolutely no clue what i did last time 😂
@thislam sounds like someone I know! 😂 Hope you get to test the app, would love to hear whether BeanRitual actually saves you from the “random notes + questionable memory” system ☕️😂
My expressos will not be a coin flip any more! Congratulations on your launch, coffee friend! ☕️
@matheus_paranhos1 Exactly! No more gambling with the first espresso of the day ☕️