alt Hacker NewsAn PWA primarily for my wife and my daughter. They can order their hot chocolate and their coffee as if they were going to grab something at a fancy café downtown, but instead it's at home and I'm the barista. It is quite nice to have for when my wife comes back from work and want something specific, or when we are waiting for the visit of a few friend, they can order exactly the available beverages and everything is ready when they're here.
It was also a good playground for me to implement Web Push notifications (to never miss new orders).
It's a basic Nuxt 3 app with Appwrite as the backend with rough edges, but much enough for our household use !
If you want to spam my phone with notifications, please visit my café : https://mytinycafe.com/alix
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Bug report: I tried to create a new cafe with a name that contained a space character in it. The form told me the ID was invalid but seems to have created my user account anyway. When I log in now, the CafeID I get is 'undefined'; as in, I am now the proud owner of https://mytinycafe.com/undefined/barista. I'm assuming this is not intended :)
So cozy. I love this.
One nit: the contrast in dark mode at least on the marketing site is a bit off (But I'd love to fix it myself if it was open source :) )
LOVE this. Are there any plans to open-source? I'd love to run my own instance.
Also some feedback: the ordering buttons are inexplicably in french despite everything else being in English. Choice of language or defaulting to English would be expected...
Also - multi-select and nullable options. So that I can create options like Taco / Steak / Pasta, and add side options that are relevant only when one of those is selected.
This is lovely,I thought about doing something similar but as a 'Dads taxi' app similar to Uber where my family can request rides. Partly because I sometimes struggle to remember where I supposed to be and when, but also because it might just be fun
This is awesome. Perfectly solving a problem, showing off tech, and adorable.
Awesome! I like when imagination fills the gaps of technology, maybe because I played on old computers like spectrum, we had few pixels and had to imagine the rest.
The ordering could’ve been “solved” with a WhatsApp message, ( or shouting ? :D ) but that would have been so boring!
This much better life UX !
This app is a reminder of being playful and imaginative in life can bring joy, congrats!
Super cute! Might try it out soon (my partner and I are both working from home most of the time).
I love this concept and the execution.
I never expected to open this and find something that would put a big grin on my face.
Thank you for giving me some joy.
FYI: The features section of the website doesn't render correctly in dark-mode.
Lovely idea! One Latte for me :)
Oh man this would kinda help me a lot right now. (As a struggling home owner living w/mom and dog)
You should add food and prices too. Obviously you don’t need to implement an actual payment system because it’s for fun, but if it kept track of the money, your kid could charge you 0.50 per drink or something.
The testimonials section is adorable
This is adorable. Nice work!
so it's a point-of-snail sort of system, perfect for taking share in a teeny tiny market, and in the growth-share matrix something of a Cashless Cow?
I like it. Delightful.
The URL is public e.g. for /nick (me)?
I love it! Such a cute application :D
It's really super cool!
This is so delightful!
This made me ovulate, and I'm not even a woman.
Slightly disappointed to realize there is not some automated drink machine behind this, as that's more my interest, but cool nonetheless and you handmade drinks are probably better.
Very cool concept - thank you for sharing it! I think would be a great solution to the near-daily "what should we eat" problem.
If I could make a (not-important) suggestion, I think being able to re-arrange / categorize menu items would be useful. Something that lets you group together drinks apart from snacks as an example.