RoastDB
Discogs for specialty coffee. Find your next favorite bean.
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Discogs for specialty coffee. Find your next favorite bean.
3 followers
A searchable database of 3,800+ specialty coffee beans from 420+ independent roasters worldwide; and growing weekly. Filter by origin, processing method, roast level, variety, and taste notes. Discover rare varieties (Gesha, Pink Bourbon), auction lots, and Cup of Excellence winners that are hard to find locally. Not a marketplace, rather a discovery engine. Find something you like, then buy directly from the roaster. Built by two coffee nerds who wanted a map of the specialty coffee world.
Hey everyone!
I'm Mohamed, one of the makers. My friend Amr and I both got into specialty coffee gradually — and we ended up with stacks of empty coffee bags to track what we're drinking.
We'd notice patterns in what we liked (e.g., naturals, East African origins, fruity notes) and try to seek out similar beans. But discovery was limited to the few roasters we already knew. There was no easy way to find out that a roaster across town - or in another country - had something we were going to love.
So we built an alternative.
The hardest part isn't collecting the data but rather finding roasters worth indexing. We spend a lot of time hunting for quality third-wave roasters: browsing coffee forums, following competition results, exploring roasters in new cities. Once we've found one, LLMs extract structured data, we normalize and translate, then human-review everything before it goes live. The data refreshes weekly.
A few things we're proud of:
- Filter down to something specific like "natural-processed Colombian from a Nordic roaster"
- Rare varieties and competition winners that deserve more attention
- 420+ curated roasters (and growing). This is not a data dump of all roasters out there.
We'd love feedback on:
- Roasters we should add
- Features that would make this more useful
- Any coffee rabbit holes you'd like us to surface
Thanks for checking it out!