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by throwaway_45 2579 days ago
How hard can it be to make a wifi food scale? Why do you need data scientist. Inventory management is very well studied science. There are plenty of formulas to calculate optimal reordering points. You probably can use seasonal ARIMA to forecast coffee use. I know this is just going to come off as sour grapes, but how does a company like this get into YC?

Someone should be able to whip this up in a few days.

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It seems a bit like Juicero - maybe investors are trying to find a corner of market based on food subscriptions.