Pour Perfect
A guided pour-over timer that teaches as you brew.
Good coffee is mostly rhythm — how much water, how fast, when to wait. I knew the numbers but my hands never quite trusted them, so I built a timer that walks me through a pour the way a metronome walks a musician through a phrase.
You tell Pour Perfect how much coffee you have and it does the ratio math, then it conducts: pour now, stop, let it bloom, pour again. The screen shows only the thing you need in this exact second — a target weight, a countdown, a gentle cue — and nothing else. Each brew teaches you a little, until one morning you realize you have stopped looking at it.
I cared most about the feel of the prompts. A guide that nags is worse than no guide. So the language is quiet and the transitions are soft, and it never makes you feel behind. It is less an app than a calm voice standing next to the kettle.
It is a small idea and an honest one: the best tools dissolve into the thing you are doing. I want to fold in scales over Bluetooth so the timer reads the water itself, and the last screen finally disappears.
