If you’re like me, we let out a complicated whine any month or so when we strech out and suddenly find an dull bag of coffee. Bottomless, one of a 200-plus startups in Y Combinator’s latest batch, has a resolution for us caffeine addicts.
For a $36 annual membership fee, a cost that co-founder Michael Mayer says isn’t set in stone, and $11.29 per sequence depending on a blend, Bottomless will automatically restock your coffee supply before we run out. How? The startup sends a members an internet-connected scale giveaway of charge, that members place underneath their bag of coffee grounds. Tracking a weight of a bag, Bottomless’ beam establish when business are low on drift and safeguard a new bag of formerly comparison creatively roasted coffee is on their doorstep before they run out.
Voilà, no some-more coffee-less mornings.
Founded by Seattle-based father and mother twin Mayer and Liana Herrera in 2016, Bottomless began as a passion plan for Mayer, a former developer during Nike.com. Herrera kept operative as a systems implementations dilettante until Bottomless cumulative adequate business to clear a span operative on a plan full-time. That was in 2018; months later, after their second try during applying, they were certified into a Y Combinator accelerator program.
Bottomless’ intelligent scale
Bottomless now depends around 400 business and has inked placement deals with Four Barrel and Philz Coffee, among other roasters. Including a $150,000 investment YC provides any of a startups, Bottomless formerly lifted a pre-seed turn from San Francisco and Seattle-area angel investors.
Before relocating to San Francisco for YC, a Bottomless founders were operative feverishly out of their Seattle home.
The long-term idea is to automate a restocking routine of several domicile items, like pet food, soap and shampoo. Their plea will be removing business to keep mixed intelligent beam in their homes as against to only seeking their digital partner to sequence them some coffee or soap on Amazon .
Amazon recently announced it was doing divided with a stick-on Dash buttons, IoT inclination able of self-ordering on Amazon. The inclination launched in 2015 before Google Homes and Amazon Alexas strike a mainstream.
So since keep a intelligent scale in your kitchen as against to only seeking a digital partner to feed your supply? Mayer says it’s coffee peculiarity that keeps it competitive.
“Some of our most enthusiastic customers live out in like deep suburbs far away from city centers, but they really love fresh coffee,” Mayer said. “And there’s no way to get fresh coffee if you live 20 or 30 minutes from a city center, right?”
“Or we competence cruise in a city like San Francisco or Seattle, we can get creatively roasted coffee flattering simply since there are restaurants all over a place, right?” He added. “That’s positively true, though it does take a small bit of additional suspicion to remember to squeeze it on a right day when you’re using low.”
Mayer and Herrera don’t cruise themselves coffee experts, notwithstanding now using what is radically a direct-to-consumer coffee marketplace out of Seattle, a coffee capital.
“I’m creatively from Portland and Portlanders know a lot about coffee,” Mayer said. “I never unequivocally deliberate myself to be a coffee backer or a coffee posh in my head, though we theory compared to like a normal American from anywhere in a country, we would be only a unchanging coffee drinker in Portland. All we unequivocally knew about coffee going into this was that it’s improved fresh. That’s it.”
Bottomless is now usurpation business in beta. The group will representation to investors during YC Demo Days subsequent week.