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We make an e-commerce subscription that uses a smart scale to trigger re-orders at the perfect time. The timing is dynamic for each customer’s usage patterns.

The scale lasts 1.5yrs per battery charge. Our customers cancel subscriptions at a way lower rate compared to typical subscriptions because their experience is way better.

We bootstrapped to over 100 customers. We 3D printed the devices and hand soldered dev boards for the internals.

We manufacture the device ourselves in China, now.

Company is bottomless.com, though we are now focused mostly on integrations with third party e-commerce sites over direct customer acquisition.




Brilliant idea

How did you convince the first customers to adopt this without a case study? I imagine selling a individual scale to each consumer is tough no?


Just as an FYI, I’ve been looking for a commercial version of this - WiFi scale that uses a webhook or what gave you to trigger a procurement process. Labs around the world would love to be able to track inventory by weight for chemicals as well as goods. Might be an interesting pivot.


Huge fan of your product. Was using a different coffee subscription that would always show up late and I'd be without coffee. The scale does work well and I've only had once or twice have coffee show up a day late.




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