About WanFe 搵啡
WanFe (搵啡) is Cantonese for “find coffee”. It is an origin-first guide to specialty coffee.
About me
Hi, I'm Josh. I love drinking coffee and exploring coffee from all around the world. This site was built to solve a simple problem, but the dream is to bring consumers and farms closer, with the hopes that more of the economic benefit of the supply chain can return to the origin!
I'm a project/product manager and looking for opportunities to solve impactful problems at a rapidly learning environment. As an extreme extrovert, I'd love to chat!
The story behind WanFe is on the home page →
The idea
Most coffee shopping starts with a roaster. WanFe starts at the origin: open the world map, zoom to a single farm or washing station, read what its coffee is like, and see which US roasters have its lots available, coming soon, or sold out.
How it works
- WanFe never sells coffee. Every buy button goes to the roaster's own shop.
- A hand-picked list of independent US roasters of light, single-origin, farm-traceable coffee. No private-equity or big-group owners. Know one we missed? Suggest it.
- Each night a program reads the roasters' public product feeds, uses an AI model (Claude) to pull out the farm, variety, process and tasting notes, and matches each lot to a farm, region or country. Uncertain matches wait for a human to check them.
- Farm details come from the roasters' own listings, with sources. Map pins are approximate unless marked verified.
Built with
Next.js and TypeScript on Vercel, a Supabase Postgres database, MapLibre with a Protomaps basemap, and a Python pipeline run nightly by GitHub Actions. The whole MVP was built in a two-week sprint with Claude Code as a coding partner. Page views are counted with Vercel Web Analytics, which uses no cookies and keeps no personal data.