Damian Rodriguez
S·04 · Hospitality · In build · 2026
Matcha & Maine
A customer engine for a matcha house in Wandsworth, with loyalty, referrals, and table ordering in one quiet system.
01 · The brief
A neighbourhood cafe competes with chains that have apps, points, and data. The owner needs the same machinery without the corporate feel, and without a developer on staff.
Matcha & Maine gives the cafe a digital stamp card with seasonal collectible editions, a referral scheme that rewards a real first purchase, ordering from the table that talks to the till, and a dashboard the owner can read over a coffee, with customers, growth, revenue, and busiest hours on one screen.
02 · The product
From leaf to latte.
03 · The build
- ·A digital stamp card, ten stamps to a free drink, with seasonal editions and an achievement ladder
- ·A stamp reveal ceremony and shareable social cards
- ·A referral scheme that qualifies on first purchase, with monthly caps
- ·Table ordering with server-side pricing
- ·A staff page to scan a code, add a stamp, and redeem, rate-limited
- ·An owner dashboard with KPIs, customer CRM, growth, announcements, and operations
- ·GDPR export and deletion, legal pages, and consent with timestamps
- ·Cloudflare Workers, D1, and Drizzle, a webhook to the Goodtill till, and a fail-closed security posture
04 · The journey
- July 2026The design landed first, a scroll-driven landing page that goes from leaf to latte.
- July 2026The architecture moved to Cloudflare Workers and D1, right-sized for a cafe and nearly free to run.
- July 2026Loyalty, referrals, table ordering, and the owner’s dashboard shipped across eight migrations.
- August 2026It works end to end on my machine. The launch waits on the cafe’s own credentials, which is the honest version.
05 · The state
Complete and rehearsed end to end. Launching with the cafe in autumn 2026.
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