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Browse proven roast profiles from roasters who've dialed in your exact beans and gear, read their tasting notes, and try it yourself—free forever because equipment brands and suppliers sponsor the profiles you discover.
Every great roast should be a lesson someone else can learn from.
How it works
Experienced home roasters upload and share roast profiles for specific beans and equipment. Users browse profiles with cupping feedback and ratings. Equipment brands and green coffee suppliers pay for sponsored placements in discovery feeds and bean-pairing recommendations.
Story
For home coffee roasters, who want proven roast profiles for specific beans and equipment, the platform hosts community-shared profiles with cupping feedback, free to access because equipment sellers and green coffee suppliers pay for sponsor placements in discovery feeds
Payer
Equipment brands and green coffee suppliers pay $800-2,000/month for sponsored placements in profile discovery and bean-pairing suggestions — advertising model, weakest monetization
Asset
Library of tested roast profiles + community curation + user trust in non-promotional core content
Revenue potential
We estimate around 15 reachable sponsors (equipment brands selling home roasters and specialty green coffee importers with direct-to-consumer channels), a conservative count given the niche hobbyist market and lack of data on sponsor budgets for this segment. Pricing is set at $1,000 per month, the midpoint of the cited $800-2,000 range, but this assumes sponsors see ROI from reaching a small hobbyist audience with no precedent shown. Market capture is assumed at 3% low, 6% mid, 12% high, reflecting extreme difficulty in convincing sponsors to pay premium rates without proven engagement metrics or purchase intent data. We assume a 60% capture rate because sponsors also spend on direct marketing, influencer partnerships, and owned channels, and this platform competes for a share of discretionary marketing budgets.
Competition Competitive
Equipment manufacturers already bundle profile-sharing into their products (ROEST Connect), and paid consultancies serve commercial roasters needing custom profiles (Boot Coffee). The home-roaster hobbyist segment appears underserved by free, cross-equipment profile marketplaces, but no evidence shows sponsors will pay premium rates to reach this small audience.
- ROEST Connect — Equipment manufacturer offering roast profile sharing functionality as part of their roaster ecosystem · source
- Boot Coffee — Consultancy offering paid roast profile development services and roaster rental time · source
Wedge
Free community-driven access versus paid consultancy or equipment-locked ecosystems, but defensibility depends entirely on proving sponsor willingness to pay $800-2,000/month to reach a small hobbyist audience with no demonstrated ROI data or precedent in this segment
Industry
Specialty Coffee
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Sources
- How to Unlock a Shared Coffee Roasting Profile
YouTube video about unlocking shared coffee roasting profiles; no substantive content extracted
- Developing roast profile with Matt Winton
ROEST equipment maker blog on roast profile development; ROEST Connect mentioned as product feature
- Roast Profile development consultancy and Service
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