Rasmus MäkinenBiomedical engineering · Turku
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Löytö

A café discovery app with offers and discounts. 3,000+ users and 30 partner cafés.

Role
Co-founder
Team
Four founders
Where
Turku and Helsinki
Result
3,000+ users, 30 cafés

Löytö helped people find local cafés and gave them a reason to try a new one: offers, discounts and food-waste deals from cafés nearby. We launched in spring 2023 in Turku and Helsinki.

There were four of us. I mostly worked on the café side: what we offered them, getting them signed up and keeping in touch. By the end we had 30 partner cafés and more than 3,000 users.

What I learned

  • We had to win two sides at once. Users only came if there were good cafés, and cafés only cared if we brought them customers.
  • The fastest way to sign up a café was to walk in, be specific about what they’d get, and follow up.
  • Our first model was a commission on sales. We learned a lot about what cafés would actually accept.