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You’re very clearly not the target market for this. There are most definitely people who obsess over good coffee and would never drink, for example, Dunkin Donuts cigarette butt tea. That said, that’s still not evidence for or against product-market fit. That’s what revenue is for.

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My naive prior is that there is a very large overlap of

1. People who obsess over coffee enough to care when their coffee was roasted

2. People who obsess over coffee so much that they don’t trust someone else to prepare it The Right Way

3. People who enjoy the ritual of making coffee as much as they do drinking it

…which, I think, probably makes any business like this unviable (but I would love to be proved wrong)

You are correct, but if very few people care and the target market is very small, it means there is no business or is a very small/niche/difficult business, which goes back to the original point. It is no surprise that such investments are likely going to be a failure.

Your comment doesn't really contradict the parent comment in any way. They said most people don't care and I'd wager that's true. That doesn't mean there aren't people who care, only that they're a small minority.

There are always people who obsess over coffee, but IMO, workplace delivery absolutely does not fit. My father is one of those, (5 expresso machines, 3 grinders), but he does it for the experience/hobby and not the convenience.

haha, I wonder how would your dad feel about you calling them expresso machines?

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