Coffee Apps: Super Useful or Completely Absurd?

Timestamps
0:00 Introduction
01:15 Brewing Coffee
06:24 Caffeine Tracking
08:45 Café Finder
11:33 Surfshark Ad Read
12:43 Coffee Games
17:44 Outro

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[bobby_builds]

Hey (Weird) Coffee People, creator of the Filtru app here. It's great to have my work featured in James' video. Just wanted to mention that the Android app will be back! I'm just a solo developer working on this app so it takes me a little longer to bring all the useful features over to another platform. ❤

[TheMajorStranger]

Imagine how weird you have to be for James Hoffman to consider you a weird coffee person.

[EuropeanCoffeeTrip]

Thanks for a shoutout, James!
We hope that all the weird coffee people watching your videos will have an easier way to find tasty coffee in Europe.

You summarised the challenges of developing a Mobile App like ours pretty accurately. It's not something you build once—the database updates and communication with cafes are daily tasks of our team. It's both fun and frustrating. Donations are very appreciated, but they are a limited resource for costly mobile app development. We had to develop the ECT platform and content first to be able to work on something we dreamed of back in 2014.

The biggest surprise for us, is that the app reaches very (normal) coffee people who would probably never watch videos on coffee YouTube ☕😅

[SirFlukealot]

Finally, James has entered his gaming arc

[martian_x]

The multi-year progression from educational "this is how to craft an excellent pour over" to the completely unhinged "welcome to the world of coffee-based gaming" is truly delightful

[The_dislike_guy]

Bitter windows phone clinger here. Thank you for acknowledging us.
-Sent from my Zune

[complicateditis]

James Hoffman losing his mind over a silly coffee game is everything I didn't know I needed

[Kaaaaarll]

I really like the app aeroprecipe. It randomly picks an aeropress recipe and it makes brewing an aeropress a little more fun. Very fun and very simple

[whatskraken]

James Hoffmann discovering Idle Games is the funniest thing I’ve ever seen

[nsv]

This is the James Hoffmann rant I didn’t know I needed. No matter how bad my day has been, it isn’t “James playing a coffee game” bad.

[liamblood]

On the cafe finder thing, recently i was in Mexico city and my brother in law got me a "Coffee Passport"

Its a physical little paper booklet that you can get in any of the speciality coffee shops across the city that participate in the scheme.

You get a stamp when you visit a coffee shop and that comes with some little benefits. 10% off your order, money off whole beans etc.

It is a fantastic little thing and incentivises you to visit other shops and try their coffee. I think a quarter of my 23kg bag on the flight back was just coffee beans i had bought there 😂

[neilorourke]

A coffee game worth checking out is called “Coffee Roaster”. No ads, it’s an implementation of a solo board game about (unsurprisingly) roasting coffees.

[sassanada]

"I know they want glitter tea. Uh, no. They're going to have a strong black coffee." 🤣🤣🤣💀
This absolutely made my day.

[cruachan]

I played both Coffee Talk games on my Xbox, largely because they're quite easy and if anyone else does Microsoft Rewards you'll know of the requirements to earn achievements for quests. The weirdest part of it (from a coffee POV, the story line is very odd) is that the same machine is used to make coffee, tea, hot chocolate and any other drink in the game.

[zp]

Waiting on the day where we get a YouTube specifically for weird coffee people.. call it "BrewTube"

[Lordrinnosuke]

As a lifelong tea guy, I just want to thank you for helping me dip my feet into the strange and wonderful world of coffee. Recently got my first v60 thanks to you.

[elementseven]

Coffee Talk (admittedly not on mobile) is the best tangentially-related to coffee game.

[jonathanromo]

I love the aeromatic app. It has a nice built in timer with audible cues to guide you through each step of the aeropress process and has recipes from you, Jonathan Gagné, and lots of other coffee youtubers that are easy to follow.

[Kdkjdjewerdnxa]

James, you should play Coffee Talk lol. It’s definitely the best (and only) good cafe/coffee theme game I’ve played. It’s mostly story/dialogue driven but there’s some cool brewing and latte art mini games.

[edwardabercrombie]

European Coffee Trip has basically never led me wrong 👌