[HN Gopher] Show HN: We're two coffee nerds who built an AI app ...
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Show HN: We're two coffee nerds who built an AI app to track beans
and recipes
It's available on iOS now:
https://itunes.apple.com/app/id6499280064 We got into specialty
coffee during COVID and, like many others, fell deep down the
rabbit hole. Along the way, we ran into the same frustrations: - A
drawer full of empty coffee bags. - No simple way to track grind
size, rest dates, notes--by bean. - My coffee history scattered
across photos, screenshots, notebooks, and half-memories. - The
unique traits, people, and stories behind each coffee disappearing
from the internet once it sold out (since coffee is an agricultural
good) - In our opinion, no coffee tool really captures the flavor,
emotion, and aesthetic of great coffee--from a design perspective.
So we built BeanBook--a coffee notebook log beans, extract recipes,
and organize your coffee life in one place with just a snap,
powered by AI Here's what it does: - Snap a bag - Auto-detects
roaster, origin, process, roast date, notes, producer, farm, and
more - Paste a YouTube link or photo - Extracts a structured
recipe automatically - Log grind size, roast timeline, ratings &
notes - All saved in a clean, elegant UI - See your coffee year in
review - Track habits, trends, and favorites - Ask BeanBook AI -
From brew temps to bean facts, get instant answers My co-founder
and I built everything ourselves--branding, code, and UX design. If
you're into coffee (or trying to get more into it), we'd love your
feedback. - Rokey & Eric
Author : rokeyzhang
Score : 31 points
Date : 2025-06-30 18:38 UTC (4 hours ago)
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| rorylaitila wrote:
| Congrats on the launch and good luck!
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| Back when I was home roasting as a hobby, I built a database to
| track my roast times and tasting notes. I thought it would be
| interesting to build a database of roast recipes and green bean
| sourcing, because that was the hardest to remember what I liked
| best.
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| As for purchased roasts, I just find a brand I like I stick to
| it. So not much for me to track.
| rokeyzhang wrote:
| Thanks for your feedback!
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| I'm home roasting too--using an entry-level FreshRoast SR800,
| which has been a ton of fun to learn on. I still buy from great
| roasters as well, since it's a great way to rhetorically access
| to different processing methods and regions.
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| We also thought about home roasting. A few folks have mentioned
| wanting to log green bean origins, roast curves, and profiles--
| there's a lot of potential there.
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| Right now, we're focusing on making the bean & recipe tracking
| seamless for brewed coffee, we found good amount of people
| buying from roasters all around the world like us.
|
| Appreciate you sharing your experience--it's super helpful!
| dummyvariable wrote:
| Do you have an Android version coming?
| rokeyzhang wrote:
| We just two person team, currently we trying to stabilize on
| iOS developing, then we'll definitely looking for Android
| version, lots of people asked for this too!
| wmrio wrote:
| Congrats on the launch! I have been making a similar app.
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| Happy for you for the launch, mad at my self for not finishing my
| side projects!
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| Cheers
|
| Def will download and check it out. Thanks for sharing.
| rokeyzhang wrote:
| Thanks so much! Totally feel you on the side project struggle--
| it took us a while to get this one across the finish line too.
| Would love to hear more about what you were working on if you
| ever revisit it!
| easygenes wrote:
| Nice app! Quick note of first thing I noticed: Would be nice to
| have a more detailed option for roast. In my case I have a
| DiFluid Omni and use it for roast analysis, so would like to be
| able to enter the data from it.
| rokeyzhang wrote:
| Thanks for the feedback! Using a DiFluid Omni--you're
| definitely a hardcore coffee enthusiast
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| We do have a notes feature attached to each bean, so you can
| always save that kind of data there for now. At the moment,
| we're focused on building a solid foundation for entry- to mid-
| level coffee lovers, but deeper roast profiling and advanced
| tools like Omni integration are definitely on our radar.
| jeemusu wrote:
| Looks great, hopefully you have plans to bring it to Android.
| I've been tracking every shot I pull in a coffee journal for the
| last 2-3 years. While I love writing it all down, it would be
| quite nice to have all the stats related to habits, trends,
| spending, etc. I think the biggest frustration I have with home
| espresso is when I pick up a bag of new beans that I've never
| tried before, or have no point of reference for, and end up
| wasting coffee getting it dialed in. It would be great if there
| was a way to see other peoples brew notes, especially people
| using similar coffee hardware.
| rokeyzhang wrote:
| Thanks--that's great input, and really appreciate you sharing
| your experience! We're definitely working toward that
| direction: tool-first, then building more ways for people to
| connect and share notes--especially around specific gear or
| beans.
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| And yes, Android is on our radar too!
| garysahota93 wrote:
| I've been wanting to build this forever now... I LOVE IT!
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| Would love to connect & share more ideas that I don't have time
| to build myself + feedback
| rokeyzhang wrote:
| Thank you for your kind words! That means a lot We'd absolutely
| love to connect! rokeyzhang@beanbook.app
| radicaldreamer wrote:
| Haven't tried it myself yet, but this looks really good!
| rokeyzhang wrote:
| Thanks for your interested, looking forward for your feedback!
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