The Spoon has been covering The Spinn saga basically since we founded the publication back in 2016. The high-tech crowdfunded coffee machine that uses centrigual force to extract coffee is, after all, three years overdue. Early backers of the product (including Spoon Founder Mike Wolf) are understandably… concerned that they would ever get theirs. But we have good news!
Spinn was at our Food Tech Live event in Las Vegas last week, bearing good news! Spinn Founder and CEO Roderick de Rode said the first Spinn units are shipping now in California. He also said there’s a “huge backlog” of orders, so those in other states will need to stay patient.
In this video interview de Rode explains a bit more about how the hardware works, but also outlines how Spinn is a coffee marketplace. The company has 462 partner coffee roasters selling their coffee on Spinn’s platform. Once you get a bag of beans, scan it with the Spinn app to bring up recipes for that roast and send them to the machine, which adjusts its extraction accordingly.
Whether or not you backed the Spinn, you should watch the full video to see one of the more unique coffee makers that are (finally) hitting the market.
They are still censor anything on their community forum. And they dont tell anything about international orders at all and all my question about international order just not published as usual.
Their policy to silence everyone is so scammy. And warranty only 6 month, despite a lot of users raised concert about it when forums wasnt censored…
Dmitry, Your experience with Spinn seems to be the norm. Spinn deleted negative comments from its forum before that became such an overwhelming burden they simply eliminated their forums.
It’s not the only “scammy” quality Spinn presents to the public. They’ve been promising shipments for years, and have missed so many deadlines over so many years that their assurances – like those presented in a Spoon story six months ago that shipping was “imminent” – are starting to seem like straight up fraud. I’m not an expert on coffee makers, but I would guess a one year warranty is a minimum standard, so a six month warranty seems like a pretty loud warning that management’s own confidence in the product (if it indeed ever ships) is wobbly, to say the least.
A bigger question is, Will Spinn stand behind any warranty, even one as feeble as six months? That’s not likely, unless there’s a change of control at Spinn. So far, they’ve not met shipping expectations, they’ve alienated many backers (who now congregate on their own FB group https://www.facebook.com/groups/694493604223779/), and they’ve not honored (at least in my case) their claimed willingness to provide a full refund to anyone who requests it. Worst of all, they continue to take pre-orders. A reasonable consumer would be right to ask, “Can I expect Spinn to do *anything* they say they will?”