Scale (weight) Based Auto Sales opportunity

[robotunicr0n]

<div class="bbWrapper">About a decade ago I found a new startup operating out of my city in the coffee industry and I thought their idea was really innovative so I subscribed and also offered a couple free pieces of tech advice about their website. I came back around to their website today to see if they were still in business and what they were up to, and I discovered that they&#039;ve leveraged their resale system as a product and it&#039;s available for other businesses to use. I am in no way affiliated with this company and get nothing from this post. Here&#039;s their partner website: <a href="https://www.bottomless.com/partners/index.html" target="_blank" class="link link--external" rel="noopener">Bottomless - Partners Page</a> <br /> <br /> Basically their original business model was to ship fresh roasted coffee advertising that you&#039;ll never run out. Their system was to create a 3d printed wi-fi enabled scale that reports weight measurements once every day or two to their website, and based on an algorithm they created, the website would automatically trigger a new order based on your subscription preferences and often I&#039;d get a new bag of coffee before my previous one (that was sitting on the scale) ran out.<br /> <br /> This opportunity looks like if you have a product you sell direct to your customers, you can use this scale based business model by partnering with bottomless to deliver resales. I&#039;m starting to think of how I might apply this to my cosmetics business as I scale it up. It&#039;s an intriguing option for sales outside of in person marketing or using amazon.</div>

 

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[MJ DeMarco]

<div class="bbWrapper"><blockquote data-attributes="member: 13868" data-quote="robotunicr0n" data-source="post: 1171665" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/community/goto/post?id=1171665" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-1171665">robotunicr0n said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> I&#039;m starting to think of how I might apply this to my cosmetics business </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote><br /> <br /> Scale based orders work for coffee beans, sugar, marbles, and wheat -- cosmetics?<br /> <br /> I don&#039;t see how this can apply based on weight.</div>

 

[Jobless]

<div class="bbWrapper">Makes me think this has more a B2B use case rather than for consumer. For example, when you stack a shelf of supplies, you can place a QR code at the end so when it becomes visible, employee is supposed to re-order by scanning the now visible QR code.<br /> <br /> However, with a scale, it could be automated. <br /> <br /> There are automated retail stores I believe that work this way. You lfit osmething off the shelf, and the reduction in weight is measured and detected as to the type of products and amount, and it is added to your digital bill for checkout. Something like that.</div>

 

[robotunicr0n]

<div class="bbWrapper"><blockquote data-attributes="member: 1" data-quote="MJ DeMarco" data-source="post: 1172058" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/community/goto/post?id=1172058" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-1172058">MJ DeMarco said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> I don&#039;t see how this can apply based on weight. </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote>It&#039;s overkill since you&#039;d have to have a scale for each product type, but out of shower products like styling gels, leave in conditioners, bath salt bags, etc could all be used in a scale setup for auto re-order.</div>

 

[robotunicr0n]

<div class="bbWrapper"><blockquote data-attributes="member: 48612" data-quote="Jobless" data-source="post: 1172094" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/community/goto/post?id=1172094" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" rel="nofollow" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-1172094">Jobless said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent "> There are automated retail stores I believe that work this way. You lfit osmething off the shelf, and the reduction in weight is measured and detected as to the type of products and amount, and it is added to your digital bill for checkout. Something like that </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink js-expandLink"><a role="button" tabindex="0">Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote>Amazon has (or had, not sure) grocery stores like this in the Seattle area. Or maybe it was a convenience store, but it was visual AI and scale based for auto charging I think. Applied for commercial restock in stores is really interesting, would need to make custom size scales perhaps.</div>