Mmmh, coffee.<p>* "Versand innerhalb einer Woche nach Röstung" -- but how long after I order?
I'm a spoiled Amazon Prime customer, and I can buy specialty coffee locally
at a cafe, and so-so fresh roasted coffee at one of several roasters in my
city of ~300k.<p>* The mandatory subscription is more of a hassle for me. I like to buy fresh
groceries (and coffee) when I need them. One more thing to worry about when
I go traveling: how many weeks of coffee can my mailbox fit?<p>On the other hand, subscriptions are great for offices, but which company
orders specialty grade coffee? I wouldn't waste it on the typical fully
automatic Jura.<p>* It doesn't say "specialty coffee" on the page, just "frisch geröstet" and
"großartig" (everybody can claim that). I was very confused at first, but
spent some time to look closer <i>only because you explicitly said so in the
submission title</i>. Since there are several roasters in my city, "fresh" is
where I start at, it's not interesting by itself.<p>I don't think you should completely rebrand the beans. Bonanza Coffee is
well-known among your target audience, whereas you are some new guys that
I don't know if I can trust yet. I'd try to build more on the credibility
of the established roasters. A Bonanza bag in the hero image would have been
an instant signal.<p>* The espresso in the hero image has zero crema. Not every coffee gives lots of
crema, but for the title image I'd pick one that does, and extract it properly:<p><a href="http://www.home-barista.com/knockbox/lets-see-your-tiger-stripes-t23996-10.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.home-barista.com/knockbox/lets-see-your-tiger-str...</a><p>* As others have already stated, the registration step is too early in the
order flow. I don't want to register before I know that a) I want your stuff,
b) the product is on stock and c) I'm okay with all the terms and conditions.
Maybe the one coffee that I wanted is sold out, maybe you ship with Hermes or
require Paypal. I'd like to know as much of this as possible before handing
out my data.<p>* Phoenix Coffee from Dresden is pretty good
Their website is disturbing close to the excellent North America premium coffee service I use, Craft Coffee (@craftcoffee ; <a href="https://www.craftcoffee.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.craftcoffee.com/</a>). Maybe it's just me, or maybe it's just the red logo and brown vac bags, but this kind of smacks of that crappy "just different enough to not be infringement" move.<p>Besides that (and Germans need coffee too!), getting premium coffee delivered is such an amazing thing. I now live in a smaller Canadian city and my fresh roasted, premium coffee options have declined. I've been enjoying Craft Coffee for several months now and not only is the product excellent (I do regular reviews on Twitter, @quinndupont), they are a really great group of people who are always willing to reach out and help or just take suggestions. A start up that actually listens and cares; it's the main reason why I like to support new businesses.<p>[Edit: one of the best things about Craft Coffee is that they source their fresh-roasted beans from all over North America, so you get the cream of the crop from roasters you'd never be able to enjoy otherwise; you get three different roasters each month.]<p>And, if you happen to sign up for Craft Coffee (I totally recommend it!), they offer a 15% off coupon code. Look around for a friend's code (they get a free month if you sign up), or (trying not to spam here...) use mine: quinn1922.
Reminds me of Pact (www.pactcoffee.com) which is a subscription-based-specialty-coffee-delivery company serving the UK (or at least London). I've used them and liked the service. I see how people that are really serious about their coffee could use a service like this.
There's also sonntagmorgen.com, who have been in this space since 2007. I know the founder and he's a really great guy, pulled this of while he was studying. Also, over Christmas, they always offer a coffee "Advent Calendar" with a small bag of a different type of coffee for every day up to the 24th.<p>That's always a small christmas highlight for me, and I enjoy it much more than the chocolate stuff that other calendars tend to offer.<p>I tend to consume a lot of coffee and I'm always happy to find new deliverers with new coffees, so I'll give this a try. Best of luck!
Looks great. This is a kind of "stole my idea" sites that I'm very happy to see.<p>When I lived in the UK, I ordered coffee from hasbean[0], which is totally great. It's still available from Germany, but delivery cost and time makes it less appealing.<p>Was looking for something similar when I moved to Berlin, but couldn't find anything like that so far[1].<p>It does seem a bit pricey at a first glance (although it includes postage, right?), and selection is a bit limited... Couldn't work out the frequency and whether or not it's a subscription or you just order online when you want? my German + Google translate are not enough to figure this out.<p>Keep at it and hope you enjoy the Burgers at BBI near your office :)<p>[0] hasbean.co.uk<p>[1] I'm currently ordering online from solvino.de and they offer quite a wide selection from a nice roasters in Hamburg.
A friend does something similar in the Netherlands. He's interviews people on their preferences and sending them coffee based on their preferences.
I will definitely look into this more when I'm back from holiday. Has anyone else found that getting good coffee in Germany is quite difficult? Or is it just that my city (Leipzig) is a bit of a coffee desert?<p>Anyways. Best wishes, and you will probably find a customer in me!
I stumbled on the link yesterday and decided not to get the subscription. I'm basically okay with having stuff sent to me in regular distances. I also like to try new stuff!<p>What I dislike is making a subscription to something that I haven't tried yet. So in case I dislike the product, I have to remember to cancel it in order to not get any more of the product that I dislike. That adds a lot of burden in advance to ordering it.<p>Furthermore, on the page "Jetzt starten" I'd like to select the product(s) first, before entering my personal information.
Hey!<p>In the end of last year I created something like what your doing here (www.hotcoffeeclub.com), also with customers in Germany and also posted it to HN just as you did (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6818369" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6818369</a>), not sure if you saw it at the time.<p>About 8 months in I've definitely learned a bunch and I ultimately decided to stop doing it couple of months ago (the website is not run by me anymore). If you'd like to have a chat my email is on my profile.
Trying this out with some Ayichesh :)<p>I'll actually have to check my mailbox now, usually anything important is sent via DHL and they usually come by twice daily ;)
Business model:<p>1. Find something people need to buy regularly anyways<p>2. Buy a 20$ one page design from themeforrest and modify it<p>3. Let people subscribe to the service to send them the item on a regular basis<p>4. Hope that enough people are too lazy to just buy things like normal people would do<p>5. Repeat the whole business model with every item you normally buy when you do your groceries, like: blacksocks (overpriced socks), mymusli (overpriced cerials) etc.
I love coffee with a passion! When buying coffee, i usually want to choose the quality/origin, the darkness of the roast and the grind (whole bean or <i>freshly</i> fine-ground).<p>If i go to $healthfoodstore around the corner i have a variety of high quality, dark roasted whole bean espresso from different regions. I would be tempted to say that the store's prices are almost always lower than your offering <i>and</i> i can smell the 250g bag of bliss before i spend 12eu on it.
How do you compete with that? (given that you consider people with my level of coffee-affection your target audience)<p>Fresh roasted needs to be more than "roasted sometime before we ship it" for me to make a difference.<p>Offer a subscription, where you put a coffee roaster in my kitchen. Every week you send me $amount of high-quality, well sourced green coffee beans from different regions. I put some of them them in my KBRoaster(tm), push the "dark roast" button, kitchen starts smelling like heaven and only 7 minutes later i enjoy my fresh cup of fresh roasted, fresh ground espresso, directly from a farm on the volcanoes of the guatemalan central highlands! Thanks for the little bag with fermented cacao beans you put into this weeks package together with a note that espresso and pure cacao go well together.
If you roast it at your place and ship it dark to me, my kitchen does not smell like heaven in the morning.<p>Lastly, the grinding process is (imo) where most of the freshness gets lost.[0] Fresh ground is way more important than fresh roasted. Freshl-roasted is only a selling point if you show me that you are actually fresher than $healthfoodstore. Example: provide very fast delivery for the region around your roaster, offering "it's still warm when it arrives" quality.<p>[0] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee_roasting#Packaging" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee_roasting#Packaging</a><p><pre><code> Roasted coffee has an optimal typical shelf life
of 2 weeks, and ground coffee about 15 minutes.</code></pre>
I've been a customer of Green Cup Coffee. Do you know them? I have no subscription (don't think they offer that) and just order whenever I need some new coffee though.
I wish we wouldn't have a deal with the coffe machine reseller where we have to take their coffe... This would have been great.<p>Gute Idee! Werde es weitersagen :)