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Re:Show HN: I designed an espresso machine and coffee grinde... by 0xffff2 on Friday December 13, 2024 @12:56PM (#42410747)
Sorry I can't look at your product page from work, but am I getting the correct impression that this machine doesn't have a boiler? If so, my (meant in good fun) suggestion is that you have in fact designed half an espresso machine :)
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Re:Show HN: I designed an espresso machine and coffee grinde... by smeeeeeeeeeeeee on Friday December 13, 2024 @12:59PM (#42410772)
Hahahaha, that is fair, but I like to think it is the important half =]

We figured out how to heat water thousands of years ago. Flow control is considerably newer

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Re:Show HN: I designed an espresso machine and coffee grinde... by eekfuh on Friday December 13, 2024 @04:00PM (#42412307)
| We figured out how to heat water thousands of years ago

Then why doesn't this device heat the water

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Re:Show HN: I designed an espresso machine and coffee grinde... by greenthrow on Friday December 13, 2024 @01:53PM (#42411215)
Yeah but having the water hit the grounds at the right temperature is what separates a great machine from an average machine. Yours doesn't do that. Congratz on everything you've done so far but I am your target customer and won't consider a machine that doesn't also manage the water temperature.
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Re:Show HN: I designed an espresso machine and coffee grinde... by lallysingh on Friday December 13, 2024 @05:19PM (#42412864)
Yeah dude until I saw that it needs an external apparatus, I was quite interested.
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Re:Show HN: I designed an espresso machine and coffee grinde... by menaerus on Saturday December 14, 2024 @03:38AM (#42415585)
With all due respect, you have to figure this out since not many people are going to pay $700 for half of what a $100 device can do. Honest advice not a critique. It must be hard not to read the negativity from some comments but this is already a great job that you had done! You just need to continue building on it IMHO.
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