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Re:Launch HN: Sudden Coffee (YC W17) – Instant coffee that d... by aquilaFiera on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @05:20PM (#13935087)
I've been a subscriber for Sudden Coffee since Christmas and I love it. The coffee is definitely as good the corner cafe here in San Francisco. I love it because it takes me 1/10 the time to make a great cup of coffee in the morning. I just upped my subscription so I can get more every month. On top of that the customer service has been top notch so far with Kalle himself answering my questions.

My initial worry was that it was too pricey but they released this blog post which I found enlightening: https://blog.suddencoffee.com/transparent-pricing-what-goes-...

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Re:Launch HN: Sudden Coffee (YC W17) – Instant coffee that d... by eps on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @05:53PM (#13935353)
This reads like a run-of-the-mill marketing blurb.
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Re:Launch HN: Sudden Coffee (YC W17) – Instant coffee that d... by aquilaFiera on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @06:18PM (#13935539)
I'll try to use less marketing terms next time? I'm just a satisfied customer and happy to see them do well. I'm an engineer in SF, see my Keybase: https://keybase.io/btholt
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Re:Launch HN: Sudden Coffee (YC W17) – Instant coffee that d... by zloof on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @05:26PM (#13935140)
Thanks for the feedback! Glad you're loving it. I'm Kalle's co-founder/ wrote that blog post, so glad to hear it was helpful.
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Re:Launch HN: Sudden Coffee (YC W17) – Instant coffee that d... by dragonwriter on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @06:03PM (#13935419)
> The coffee is definitely as good the corner cafe here in San Francisco.

I've only tried a few since I don't even live in SF, but IME "as good [as] the corner cafe here in San Francisco" could be anywhere from horrible to excellent, depending on the particular corner cafe.

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Re:Launch HN: Sudden Coffee (YC W17) – Instant coffee that d... by aquilaFiera on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @06:20PM (#13935553)
Okay, fair. I'm from Salt Lake City where the coffee is decidedly not as good. What I meant to say it's as good to me as Philz.
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Re:Launch HN: Sudden Coffee (YC W17) – Instant coffee that d... by freese on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @07:56PM (#13936267)
We did a blind taste test at YC - 72% of the founders in our batch prefer Sudden over fresh Philz ;)
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Re:Launch HN: Sudden Coffee (YC W17) – Instant coffee that d... by zloof on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @06:32PM (#13935639)
We aren't going to beat out the best of the best cafes with trained baristas, but we will definitely beat out the average corner cafe (where people often spend $3-4 on a coffee).
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